• Lembot_0004@discuss.online
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      27 days ago

      Oh. I had that thought, but dismissed it because “So what? Birds lose feathers as we lose hair, so they obviously should have some lying around.”

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            27 days ago

            Sure, but in the context of the joke, it has to be a fresh-plucked one. For reasons of structural integrity or whatever 🤷

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                27 days ago

                I’ll have you know that the Viking descendants from whose loins I sprang both grew up on farms and the paternal one is a former hardware store salesman and DIY expert who taught me a thing or two 😄