Seagulls aren't a thing. Just gulls.
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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: ...
I never knew that. I thought it went from beagle to seagull and then on to eagle…
If seagulls fly over the sea, then what flies over the bay?
Bagels.
Don't forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.
Don't forget THA GOOD SHIP MERRY GULL!
Most of what we consider "seagulls" dont actually go out to sea. It's all lies.
The seagull is the state bird of Utah. About 400 miles from the nearest ocean.
So they are lakegulls then.
They're seaadjacentgulls.
Don't forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon
Bay-gull. Bagel.
Bay-hull; loves explosions.
I've seen many seagulls in my life.
But I've never seen any of the others.
And that's terrifying. Stay vigilant.
Or at the very least a rivergull
vol-gul.
Wrong.
Seagulls imply the existence of Rivergulls, Lakegulls, Mountiangulls, Desertgulls, Forestgulls, Plaingulls, Valleygulls, Hillgulls, etc.
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...
Archipelagulls
I love baygulls.
Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.
Some live by the bay. They're baygulls.
Dumpster chickens
Surely they’re airgulls as they don’t live in the sea?
seagull
looks inside
landgull
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.
Wailos or wailer is wolf, is that because they “wail” (howl?) Or is that just a coincidence?
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."
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".
Interesting. I knew about "bear" but I did not know about "medved" as another minced-taboo. Thanks for that.
I propose that cobras be referred to as firegulls. The hissing for the noise, and the venom spit into your eyes is “hot” (spicy).
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
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!!!
I prefer earthgulls.
I’ve said the same about Ground Turkey for years.
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