Troubling New Survey Shows 90 Percent Of Graduating High School Seniors Don't Know The Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow

BabylonBee.com ^ | 11/18/2025 | The Babylon Bee

[lastchance]

Don’t look at me. I’m still trying to figure out my favorite colour.

[lastchance]

It’s a joke son, a joke. We keep pitching ‘em and you keep missin’ “em.

[Vaquero]

Or an Africanized bee.

[lastchance]

I always carry my own duck with me making sure we are not of equal weight.

[dfwgator]

They also think swallows can carry a coconut.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“10 meters per second, or 22 miles per hour”

WRONG!

Velocity is a vector quantity. In addition to the magnitude (speed), a direction is required.

[al_c]

“Where’s my bucket?!”

[Billthedrill]

A trick question. If the swallow is working for the government, it might take all day no matter what the distance.

[mitchjackson1972]

Everyone knows the answer is 42

[lowbridge]

So, thats why 90% of graduating seniors never made it over that bridge.

[PIF]

Disturbingly when asked the question 50% replied, “I don’t swallow.”

[rottndog]

I fart in your direction...

[griswold3]

👍

[jimtorr]

My BIL and I did the same. We were both unemployed at the time.

[equaviator]

[brookwood]

“African or European?”
Well, an African swallow is not mi-great-ory

[Fresh Wind]

What about a German swallow?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262