SpitfireAce said:
"I don't know but I've been told... Eskimo kitty is might cold"
-Full Metal Jacket
damnit fargoth, I read that whole damn thing
heh, if you had seen the movie, it would have made sense (the part about how he knows so much about swallows).
(King Arthur and his servant ride on imaginary horses, using coconuts to mimic the sound of real horses).
SOLDIER: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.
KING ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercia, through...
SOLDIER: Where'd you get the coconuts?
KING ARTHUR: We found them.
SOLDIER: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
KING ARTHUR: What do you mean?
SOLDIER: Well, this is a temperate zone
KING ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
SOLDIER: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
KING ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.
SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
KING 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.
KING ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
SOLDIER: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
then another soldier enters the argument, and says an African swallow could have carried it, but it's not migratory, then they wonder if two swallows could use a string...
