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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Together they can make the combined-arms-gulls.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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: ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

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

Bagels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Don't forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Don't forget THA GOOD SHIP MERRY GULL!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Most of what we consider "seagulls" dont actually go out to sea. It's all lies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

So they are lakegulls then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

They're seaadjacentgulls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Bay-hull; loves explosions.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Or at the very least a rivergull

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Wrong.

Seagulls imply the existence of Rivergulls, Lakegulls, Mountiangulls, Desertgulls, Forestgulls, Plaingulls, Valleygulls, Hillgulls, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

No no no, you're all wrong. It goes Agles, Beagles, Seagulls, Deegles, Eagles, etc. We've proven the existence of 3 of these species already, but the search continues for these other mysterious creatures the certainly must exist. In this TED Talk, I will...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

Archipelagulls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I love baygulls.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Some live by the bay. They're baygulls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Dumpster chickens

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

seagull

looks inside

landgull

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

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."

Edit: This is, of course, assuming that we're looking for different existing types of animals to be these creatures, rather than just (for instance) creating new, elemental forms of gulls; or "reskinning" seagulls with different elements; or inventing all-new animals to fill those roles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I propose that cobras be referred to as firegulls. The hissing for the noise, and the venom spit into your eyes is “hot” (spicy).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I prefer earthgulls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I’ve said the same about Ground Turkey for years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's Called seagull

It flies

With that logic, firegull are penguins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

That logic is incredible! But of course!

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