Captain Planet Gull: “Give me those chips and I’ll poop on you!”
You: “… don’t you mean ‘or’ you will poop on me, not ‘and’?”
Captain Planet Gull: …
You: …
The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.
Submitted 8 months ago by Tattorack@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I never knew that. I thought it went from beagle to seagull and then on to eagle…
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
If seagulls fly over the sea, then what flies over the bay?
Bagels.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Grimy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most of what we consider “seagulls” dont actually go out to sea. It’s all lies.
Carcel@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
[deleted]dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
So they are lakegulls then.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
They’re seaadjacentgulls.
huxley75@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Bay-gull. Bagel.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bay-hull; loves explosions.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve seen many seagulls in my life.
But I’ve never seen any of the others.
And that’s terrifying. Stay vigilant.
philthi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or at the very least a rivergull
HubertManne@piefed.social 8 months ago
vol-gul.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love baygulls.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dumpster chickens
Codpiece@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Surely they’re airgulls as they don’t live in the sea?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
seagull
looks inside
landgull
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You have to go pretty far back (to proto-Celtic, it looks like) to find a linguistic ancestor for the word “gull” that doesn’t just mean “that specific bird.”
But in proto-Celtic, it looks like “weilanna” probably meant “wailer.” As in, “one who wails,” though we don’t know exactly what the suffix “-anna” means. A similar word in that language would’ve been “wailos,” which even though it sounds similar seems to have been unrelated to our modern term “wolf,” as it comes from a different proto-indo-european root.
Anyway, the word “gull” does refer to the sounds that it makes more than anything else. So in figuring out what a landgull, airgull, and firegull might be, we need to find something noisy. Or just something annoying, given the derisive connotation of “wail.”
jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Wailos or wailer is wolf, is that because they “wail” (howl?) Or is that just a coincidence?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sorry for being unclear–proto-Celtic calls wolves “wailos” for the same reason as they call gulls “weilanna,” because of the noise, yes. The coincidence is that the modern word “wolf” sounds like the proto-Celtic word “wailos.”
Aqarius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s probably the result of a taboo. It’s why people say “bear” (the brown one) or “medved” (the honey knower) instead of “arth” or “ursus”.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s if it’s specifying aquatic vs other elemental gulls. Perhaps it’s specifying what type of body of water it’s from instead. That’d imply oceangulls, rivergulls, bagels, pondgulls, lakegulls, etc
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!
billwashere@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I prefer earthgulls.
tkohldesac@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve said the same about Ground Turkey for years.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s Called seagull
It flies
With that logic, firegull are penguins.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That logic is incredible! But of course!
Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah until one of those airgulls comes and swipes it.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Water-Gulls. Earth-Gulls. Fire-Gulls. Air-Gulls. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.
teft@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Seagulls, Landgulls, Firegulls, and Airgulls. But that all changed when the Firegulls attacked.
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
My brother and I discovered the new Gulliver…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Heartgulls
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
“By your powers combined, I’m Captain Gull!”
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am Gull, and by this axe I rule!
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on “seagulls” and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he’d shout down the hallway “They’re herring gulls!”
ch00f@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he’s naming it “seagull” regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to pill off all the ornithologists.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Seagulls are not just herring gulls though. The term is used for any gulls people see near the sea. In the UK that’s herring, great black backed & and lesser black backed, black headed, common, and kittiwakes.
MSBBritain@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked…
remon@ani.social 8 months ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seagulls aren’t a thing. Just gulls.