# 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
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/21 "2004-10-31T05:46:25Z")
Bad clam disease? Take an old woman’s necrophilia!
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/22 "2004-10-31T05:47:56Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> Hey! I don’t smoke.
Must have been Scotty.
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/23 "2004-10-31T05:52:36Z")
Mammals = animals with tits
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/24 "2004-10-31T05:52:39Z")
Children! What’s all that ruckus?
Don’t make me have to come upstairs.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/25 "2004-10-31T05:59:08Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Must have been Scotty.
Yup, kissed him g’night bout half an hour ago. 'S late in Pencil…Penssyl…Waynesboro.
> [@QED](#):
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> 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.
_sigh_…He’s just reminding me to behave. I have a thing for brainy computer geeks. 😉
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/26 "2004-10-31T06:00:18Z")
**ETF** posted the climax of this discussion.
[Tits!](http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/photos/lb/hike/RFBoobie.jpg) oh wait, those are boobies…
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/27 "2004-10-31T06:11:29Z")
If I wasn’t and old \* grump \* I’d laugh at this Sally ing back and firth… oops…
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/28 "2004-10-31T06:22:11Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
They can. It just depends on how well you punt them. 😉
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### Author:  [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/29 "2004-10-31T06:29:12Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
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> It ain’t me, Sandlegs.
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> 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.
Cats can fly. They just sort of fly downwards when you drop them off the building.
Fuck da world!
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/30 "2004-10-31T07:06:30Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> Male sea horses give birth.
> Is there a point here, somewhere?
If it gives birth, then why not call that one the female?
I’ll tell you why. It was because of some dumbass stubborn biologist somewhere.
“And here we have a male seahorse.”
“Uh, it appears to be having a baby.”
“Yeah. Uhh. The male has the baby. That’s the ticket. You’re fired.”
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/31 "2004-10-31T07:50:29Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> If it gives birth, then why not call that one the female?
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> I’ll tell you why. It was because of some dumbass stubborn biologist somewhere.
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> “And here we have a male seahorse.”
> “Uh, it appears to be having a baby.”
> “Yeah. Uhh. The male has the baby. That’s the ticket. You’re fired.”
Because male seahorses don’t give birth. They just hold fertilized eggs in a pouch until they hatch.
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/32 "2004-10-31T08:00:56Z")
> [@Sandlegs](#):
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> i like where this thread is going! keep up the good work!
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> (it should be a rule that at least one person is sober in a thread…but not me.)
Okay, I’m sober. Requirement satisfied.
Carry on.
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### Author:  [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/33 "2004-10-31T10:31:47Z")
Echidna and Platypus are monotremes.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/34 "2004-10-31T10:38:34Z")
Shouldn’t that be Echidnae and Platypods {or Platypoda}?
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/35 "2004-10-31T12:22:05Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> [Tits!](http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/photos/lb/hike/RFBoobie.jpg) oh wait, those are boobies…
I found a picture of [Tits](http://birds.cornell.edu/BOW/TUTI/)! on the _Internet_, believe it or not!
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/36 "2004-10-31T14:12:11Z")
Well, it does go a long way towards explaining the presence of breast meat on chickens! :smack:
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/37 "2004-10-31T14:48:04Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> I have a thing for brainy computer geeks. 😉
😃
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/38 "2004-10-31T17:03:23Z")
> [@Maureen](#):
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> I have a thing for brainy computer geeks. 😉
😃
Oh yeah… flying squirrels.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/39 "2004-10-31T17:05:11Z")
> [@if6was9](#):
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> Oh yeah… flying squirrels.
[Grumpy Pedant]
Flying squirrels don’t fly, they glide.
[/Grumpy Pedant]
😛
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### Author:  [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birds-are-mammals/272126/40 "2004-10-31T17:08:08Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> Because male seahorses don’t give birth. They just hold fertilized eggs in a pouch until they hatch.
So let’s get this straight. Two sexes. One squirts something into the other, whereupon an egg is fertilized and held until birth. Sounds exactly like mammalian birth. Now, how do we know the pregnant seahorse is a boy?
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