• lime!
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    29 days ago

    not much call for protection from vampires around swallows, i’d think

    • @Remember_the_tooth
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      29 days ago

      Vampire bats.

      Also, I was referencing the coconut scene from Monty Python:

      SOLDIER: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

      ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.

      SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?

      ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk…

      SOLDIER: It’s not a question of where he grips it it’s a simple question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut.

      ARTHUR: Well, it doesn’t matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.

      A slight pause. Swirling mist. Silence.

      SOLDIER: Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second. Right?

      ARTHUR: (irritated) Please!

      SOLDIER: Am I right?

      ARTHUR: I’m not interested.

      SECOND SOLDIER: (who has loomed up on the battlements) It could be carried by an African swallow!

      FIRST SOLDIER: Oh, yes! An African swallow maybe…but not an European swallow. That’s my point.

      SECOND SOLDIER: Oh, yes, I agree with that…

      ARTHUR: (losing patience) Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court in Camelot?!

      FIRST SOLDIER: But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.

      SECOND SOLIDER: Oh, yes.

      ARTHUR raises his eyes heavenward’s and nods to PATSY. They turn and go off into the mist.

      FIRST SOLDIER: So they couldn’t bring a coconut back anyway.

      SECOND SOLIDER: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?

      FIRST SOLDIER: No, they’d have to have it on a line.

      SECOND SOLDIER: Well simple - they just use a strand of creeper…

      FIRST SOLDIER: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?

      SECOND SOLDIER: Why not?

      • lime!
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        29 days ago

        i’m aware, but we’ve already established that it wasn’t swallows.

        • @Remember_the_tooth
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          29 days ago

          Fair enough. I still feel like vampire bats might be a threat. Also, we don’t know what reservoirs harbor vampirism. Perhaps sparrows are carriers.

          • lime!
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            29 days ago

            how would sparrows transfer vampirism without teeth?