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Imagine Dragons Parking: probably VTOL.

There was a tweet out there, featuring a photo of one of those big programmable road signs clearly set up for a concert:

IMAGINE
DRAGONS
PARKING

and commentary:

I'm following this instruction, but simply can't work out how they'd fit their wings and tail in the space. pic.twitter.com/6IhaI8pYxb

— Jon Holmes (@jonholmes1) November 5, 2015

This came up when on the phone, and extensive silliness ensued.

silveradept pointed out that dragons can bend, and would have their wings folded up and probably their necks raised and tails curled.

I asked how that affected take-off.

silveradept said that they'd always thought of dragons as VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing).

And I was like: No, you've got to have enough SIDE room, so like:
Imagine you have a wide dragon in a compact space...
... and two other dragons crammed in, in the spaces next to it...

(at this point we have both dissolved in giggles)

At which point I speculate that in order to achieve VTOL, the dragon is beating its wings like a hummingbird...

silveradept provides helicopter-like sound effects.

Me: Now imagine the noise from a SQUADRON of these...

silveradept [hummingdragon intensifies]
silveradept *decent rendition of the appropriate bits of "Ride of the Valkyries"*

Me: *crying laughing*


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Yup.

Recent comment stats thing!

(As ever, DW keeps its stuff in the same place as LJ, so I've retrieved mine; this grabs about 5,000 comments at once, so you can do the math to get your 5000 most recent.)

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