# Birds are mammals!!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 31, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126 "2004-10-31T04:37:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/1 "2004-10-31T04:37:50Z")

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Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

the Platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs.

Birds are mammals!

yowza!

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/2 "2004-10-31T04:52:48Z")

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I thought they were birds.

Please explain.

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### Author: ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/3 "2004-10-31T04:53:04Z")

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[kindly old codger]

Now, why don’t you just lie down and sleep it off, sonny. We’ll talk about this in the morning, okay?

[/koc]

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### Author: ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/4 "2004-10-31T04:54:51Z")

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Echidnas are also mammals that lay eggs.

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### Author: ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/5 "2004-10-31T04:58:19Z")

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I thought birds were actually dinosaurs.

And humans can fly too. Not to mention goats launched out of PVC cannons.

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/6 "2004-10-31T05:00:44Z")

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Flying fish!  
I saw a firetuck skipping rope.

I forgot a comma, oops.

You… look… mahvalous!

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/7 "2004-10-31T05:02:58Z")

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Forgot an r too.

D too.  
Fuck…

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### Author: ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/8 "2004-10-31T05:03:49Z")

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Male sea horses give birth.  
Is there a point here, somewhere?

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/9 "2004-10-31T05:06:38Z")

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Never pour Drano™ on your genitals.

Nor your Gentiles.

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### Author: ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/10 "2004-10-31T05:07:09Z")

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Oy!

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### Author: ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/11 "2004-10-31T05:08:32Z")

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Someone’s been drinking. Quite possibly several someones.

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### Author: ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/12 "2004-10-31T05:18:02Z")

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_sticks tongue out at **Q.E.D.** _ Spoilsport. I’m not so think as you drunk I am.

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/13 "2004-10-31T05:18:17Z")

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Class is the drink of the cursing work.

Poor me

Poor me

Poor me

Pour me another shot of whiskey!

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### Author: ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/14 "2004-10-31T05:25:20Z")

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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

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### Author: ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/15 "2004-10-31T05:29:26Z")

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i like where this thread is going! keep up the good work!

(it should be a rule that at least one person is sober in a thread…but not me.)

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### Author: ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/16 "2004-10-31T05:31:49Z")

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> [@Maureen](#):
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> _sticks tongue out at **Q.E.D.** _ Spoilsport. I’m not so think as you drunk I am.

I like drunk girls with tongues. 😉

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### Author: ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/17 "2004-10-31T05:32:19Z")

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As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!

It ain’t me, Sandlegs.

Someone should swear befor this is moved to MPSIMS. Fuck Bush! Man, I can’t remember the last Pit thread that was moved to MPSIMS.

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/18 "2004-10-31T05:35:39Z")

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> [@Q.E.D.](#):
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> I like drunk girls with tongues. 😉

The wonderful aftertaste of vomit and stale cigarrets. YUM!

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### Author: ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/19 "2004-10-31T05:36:43Z")

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Hey! I don’t smoke.

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### Author: ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/20 "2004-10-31T05:42:15Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> The wonderful aftertaste of vomit and stale cigarrets. YUM!

How’s a guy s’posed to get any flirting done with images like _that_ in his mind? That’s just like you to take something wonnerful and turn it all ugly like. 😛

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