Heh… Turdus.
>:(
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Good to see the Primarch of the Raven guard enjoying an alliteration break between tormenting Lorgar. Though I feel like it’d be more productive to go after Erebus, could probably get half the Traitor legions to help him.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
A cooperative, wide scale Erebus manhunt could bring peace to the 41st millennium
Hupf@feddit.org 6 days ago
Angry Birds origin story
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m assuming that someone didn’t like Robins and this naming scheme was revenge?
lenuup@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I am afraid it just means migratory thrush. And the latin name for thrushes (turdus) was assigned by a Swede. So how it sounds in English is just a happy little accident.
Epp2@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
Probably some scientist was pooped on by a Robin.
Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 1 week ago
Stream of consciousness, I once busted out a corvid joke during COVID in a company meeting when a dude was complaining about crows calling in the background… it fell flat AF.
Kabaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Too bad. You’d think humor like that would have wings.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What was the joke?!
Customer and I were talking about my busted rib and how miserable it is to cough or laugh. He laid this one on me (the timing is crucial) and put me in pain:
Know what they call the white stuff in chicken shit?
Chicken shit.
Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 6 days ago
God, I don’t remember exactly but something like, “you’d better quarantine yourself, sounds like you’ve got corvid.”