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The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.

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Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tattorack@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If seagulls fly over the sea, then what flies over the bay?

    Bagels.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think a “landgull” would just be a pigeon

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    • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, that’s an airgull. A landgull would be a chicken.

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      • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nah, that’s a farmgull. A landfill would be an ostrich

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to “treegulls.”

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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: …

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My brother and I discovered the new Gulliver…

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  • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve seen many seagulls in my life.

    But I’ve never seen any of the others.

    And that’s terrifying. Stay vigilant.

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  • three@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And what about the Dillos who don’t want to be armed?

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        unarmadillos?

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Stands to reason, yes. Maybe also navyadillos and airforcadillos.

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  • the_abecedarian@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    also, spacegulls

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Spacegul

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        thank you.

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      • Kernal64@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Attention Bajoran workers…

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.

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  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!”

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    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bay-gull. Bagel.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bay-hull; loves explosions.

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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I never knew that. I thought it went from beagle to seagull and then on to eagle…

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  • MSBBritain@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked…

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most of what we consider “seagulls” dont actually go out to sea. It’s all lies.

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    • Carcel@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The seagull is the state bird of Utah. About 400 miles from the nearest ocean.

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      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So they are lakegulls then.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re seaadjacentgulls.

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  • Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah until one of those airgulls comes and swipes it.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Heartgulls

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    • lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “By your powers combined, I’m Captain Gull!”

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      • AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I am Gull, and by this axe I rule!

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • huxley75@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wailos or wailer is wolf, is that because they “wail” (howl?) Or is that just a coincidence?

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      • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”.

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  • Taco2112@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.

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  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget THA GOOD SHIP MERRY GULL!

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love baygulls.

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Surely they’re airgulls as they don’t live in the sea?

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      seagull

      looks inside

      landgull

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s Called seagull

    It flies

    With that logic, firegull are penguins.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That logic is incredible! But of course!

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  • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dumpster chickens

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!

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