Please don't. I realize you meant it in good fun, but this sort of thing is kudzu* and there's a power law in how worse it gets as the thread proceeds.
Threads are particularly sensitive to initial conditions, so it's especially important not to do this when there aren't any comments yet.
(Submitted title was "4,000 year old woman may have been powerful European leader, treasure suggests". Perhaps the submitter rewrote it to fit HN's 80 char limit, or perhaps NatGeo rewrote their own headline once they realized all the lame jokes it was generating.)
Threads are particularly sensitive to initial conditions, so it's especially important not to do this when there aren't any comments yet.
(Submitted title was "4,000 year old woman may have been powerful European leader, treasure suggests". Perhaps the submitter rewrote it to fit HN's 80 char limit, or perhaps NatGeo rewrote their own headline once they realized all the lame jokes it was generating.)
* though I do need to find a different metaphor- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668829