"So I says to they guy, I says to him, can you believe the crap they try to pass off as sardines today? I mean, seriously, can you believe it?"
"I know, Larry, you've only told me *three hundred times!*"
@kelsonv Heh. :-)
BTW, I've come to refer to them as just gulls:
"The word seagull is actually an informal way of referring to any of the species that belong to the family Laridae, the gulls. There is not actually a single species called the seagull."
@sohkamyung I suppose if there aren't any gulls that *aren't* ocean-based, "seagull" is probably redundant, too.