Re: HUMOR?: fruitbats (wasRe: Butterflies)

Do Not Confuse with "Thick Pink Fiberglass Bats" - they are a different
species.

Scholarly opinion is still divided on whether or not Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of
Hell" was a fruitbat or a cricketbat.

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:51, tomhchappell wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Yann Kiraly <yann_kiraly@G...> wrote:
> > What exactley is a fruitbat? Is it an especialy big bat or does it
> > specialise on fruit?
>
> 1. If a game similar to baseball, cricket, tennis, or badminton is
> played with a fruit, rather than a ball or a bird, the bat used to
> hit the fruit is called a "fruitbat".
>
> 2. If, when building a house or other structure out of fruit, some of
> the fruit is broken, the broken pieces are called "fruitbats".  (By
> analogy with "brickbats").
>
> 3.  A piece of fruit hurled as a weapon is called a "fruitbat".
> (Also by analogy with "brickbat".
>
> ----
>
> I'm sure there are other definitions.
>
> E.g. from Wikipedia: "Bats, or Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, is the
> language of the Bats people, a Caucasian minority group, and is part
> of the Nakh family of Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000
> speakers in 1975. There is only one dialect. It exists only as a
> spoken language, as the Bats people use Georgian as their written
> language. Until the middle of the 19th century, the Bats lived in
> Tushetia, the mountain region of Northwest Georgia. The Tsova Gorge
> in Tushetia was inhabited by four Bats communities: the Sagirta,
> Otelta, Mozarta and Indurta. Later they settled on the Kakhetia
> Plain, in the village of Zemo-Alvani, where they still live.
> Administratively they are part of the Akhmeta district of Georgia.
> There are some families of Bats in Tbilisi and other bigger towns in
> Georgia.
> Bats belongs to the Nakh family of Caucasian languages.
> Most speakers of Bats live in the village of Zemo-Alvani, on the
> Kakhetia Plain, in the Akhmeta district of Georgia. There are some
> families of Bats in Tbilisi and other bigger towns in Georgia."
>
> A member of this people whose elevator didn't go all the way to the
> top might be called a "fruitbat"; or, that might not be politically
> correct.
>
> -----
>
> Tom H.C. in MI
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