What is the Average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Answered

[Erthena at aol.com]

Finally, we have an answer to this age old question. What is the 
average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow you ask, well it's 
11 meters per second or 24 miles per hour (for a european swallow, 
they have no clue about african swallow).  How did loony find this 
out, well someone did a study.  See it here 
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
  It also answered the other question, What is the capital of 
Assyria (which I actually knew).

Just passing it along,

~~loony

PS:: if you did not understand a word of theis may  recommend the 
wonderful movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, hilarious and 
historically inaccurate.