But what about the pie?
I love Mississippi mud pie!
Not today, darling.
Mud pies are better than cow pies.
Splat!
A good thing that cows don’t fly.
I guess you have not seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
A ballistic trajectory is not flight.
What if the cow was carried by two African swallows?
At what airspeed?
An airborne cow does not get any better just because it is carried by swallows.
But does it get any worse?
It could get motion sickness, I imagine.
How many swallows does it take for a cow?
There actually isn’t a bird called the “African swallow”. There are over 20 species of swallow that live in Africa, ranging in weight from about 20 g to 100 g (all less than the “5 ounce bird” you may have heard about). Let’s be generous and say a 100 g swallow could carry 50 g. An adult cow weighs about 630 kg, so we need about 12,000 swallows to carry a cow. Not clear how they’d grip it, since it doesn’t have a husk.
In a net, of course, although then you’d have factor in the weight of the net.
ISTR a radio person saying that he was going to start brewing “Capistrano Beer – for the swallows you return to.”
I don’t swallow that.
Albatross! Albatross!
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