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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:01 PM
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Post the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:02 PM
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1. a regular swallow?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:02 PM
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2. What do you mean?
An African swallow or a European swallow? :shrug:



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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:04 PM
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6. Whu? How should I know...
Aaaaaaaaaa.........
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:19 PM
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14. We need an official MP post day....
To augment the normal, everyday MP refs! :hi:
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:15 PM
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11. We have a winnah!
:thumbsup:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:02 PM
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3. Velocity has nothing to do with it.
It's how he grips it.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:04 PM
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5. It's not a matter of where he *grips* it
It's a simple matter of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird cannot carry a one-pound cocoanut. It's that simple.



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deepthought42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:05 PM
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7. What if two swallows carried it together? n/t
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:06 PM
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8. Wait a minute...
supposing two swallows carried it together?
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:03 PM
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4. What if You Spit instead?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:08 PM
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9. I knew that one was coming.
;)
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:13 PM
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10. redqueen made me post it
:rofl: :rofl: :hi:
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:18 PM
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13. You're the best straight man in the Lounge!
Nice jacket ;-)

:hi:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:23 PM
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16. The double-entendres aren't too childish?
:crazy:
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:26 PM
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17. Okaaaay
IBTL :rofl: :hi:
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:17 PM
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12. A DUzy!
Tempered by The Lounge Factor, no doubt. :mad:
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:22 PM
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15. 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
Yes, the Internet has EVERYTHING.


http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:34 PM
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19. I had looked that up before, too.
I assume you knew Ninevah was also the capitol of Assyria, too.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:33 PM
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18. African or European?
:P
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cabraverde Donating Member (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:35 PM
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20. Is it carrying a coconut?
Edited on Tue Jan-08-08 06:41 PM by cabraverde
I am not sure how fast an unladen swallow can fly. This is only because I normally see coconut carrying birds.
The last swallow I clocked using RADAR was traveling at 3.14159 MPH but this was an african swallow who had a particularly large coconut in its talons.
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