According to the "Atlas of Bird Migration" (quite a thick book so everything in it must be true): "Contrary to popular belief, there is no such creature as a "seagull". Although many gulls are birds of inshore waters and some rarely leave the open ocean, others nest far from any ocean and, during migration, cross the prairie grasses and farmland that characterises the American Great Plains - the antithesis of "seagull" habitat."
So, there you have it. I, and others inside and outside the Edgbaston press-box, can only admit, candidly and shamefully, that we were wrong. Sincere apologies.
Comments (16)
Pure evil I tell you.
Was driving down the M54, and no sooner had the chap on the radio mentioned that the previous song had been Space Age's 'A Flock of Seagulls', then SPLAT. All across my windscreen a deposit of stuff that really shouldn't be deposited.
They know what they're doing that's for sure.
So they do exist...
Posted by Paul | October 15, 2007 11:11 PM
Posted on October 15, 2007 23:11
What about sealions? Would they have us believe that they don't exist either. Only lions?
Posted by P.Bogg | October 16, 2007 9:07 AM
Posted on October 16, 2007 09:07
Never mind seagulls. Botha and now Rankin. How does signing players from Derbyshire fit in with the chief executive's oft-stated statement that Warwickshire only want to bring in "top-drawer" players?
Posted by Bear with a sore head | October 16, 2007 12:16 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 12:16
If you'd listened to me in the first place instead of hectoring me about that famous GULL expert Chekhov, you wouldn't have to spend your winters reading the "Atlas of Bird Migration" while watching Walsall.
Posted by kim | October 16, 2007 12:58 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 12:58
Forget seagulls, why can't you ever kill a pigeon?
Posted by Craig G | October 16, 2007 2:55 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 14:55
Pigeons? According to that pedantic-sounding Atlas, shouldn't it be just "Geons"?
And anyway, cormorants, now they are the real pest. The only good cormorant is a dead cormorant.
Posted by A. Nangler | October 16, 2007 3:37 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 15:37
In the light of this new information, surely every edition of the Chekhov classic must be recalled forthwith.
As well as a significant quantity of Brighton and Hove Albion FC memorabilia.
Posted by brian | October 16, 2007 4:04 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 16:04
Any fool knows that A Flock of Seagulls had 2 major hits: "I ran" and "wishing (if I had a photograph of you)."
Posted by DLT | October 17, 2007 9:20 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 09:20
I ate some dodgy blueberries last week and they came out the other end like a flock of seagulls.
Posted by Afflicted | October 17, 2007 11:56 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 11:56
Had a terrible dream last night. It was about seagulls - yes, they exist in nightmares - pecking like mad at the panes of the phone box I was trapped in.
I was moving on with my life but his has brought it all back.
They'll get me in the end, you'll see.
Posted by brian | October 17, 2007 2:28 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 14:28
I see Simon Jones has gone to Worcester, with most counties being put off by a fitness record that limited him to four CC games last year.
Boyd Rankin's fitness limited him to three.
Posted by kim | October 17, 2007 2:39 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 14:39
I hope Rankin, injury-prone and with everything to prove, is just seen as one of the back-ups. Surely they are going to sign an overseas fast bowler?
Posted by Rob S. | October 18, 2007 11:35 AM
Posted on October 18, 2007 11:35
Umar Gull - just for Brian.
Posted by Kim | November 2, 2007 12:10 PM
Posted on November 2, 2007 12:10
Hey Kim, I spent last week in Cornwall and there were gulls all over the place and you know what? They were debonair, immaculately-behaved, charming creatures who made noise only at sensible times of day and used their bowels with great restraint, sense and discretion.
I was so impressed that I purchased a small, ornamental gull which now stands proudly on our bookcase at home.
It must just be the Brighton and Hove gulls that are uncouth. The rest, I can now state unequivocally, are groovy.
Posted by brian | November 2, 2007 12:44 PM
Posted on November 2, 2007 12:44
Gulls rock.
Posted by L.Lime. | November 2, 2007 9:47 PM
Posted on November 2, 2007 21:47
That reminds me of the old story about the seagull, the mangle and the grandfather clock.
Posted by O.Codger | November 4, 2007 11:40 AM
Posted on November 4, 2007 11:40