BS: Smack the Penguin!!!

Subject: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 03:38 PM

I just fired up the little rascal for the first time in a long while and smacked the penguin 555.7 meters!!!! I think this may be a record.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, go to:

http://meph.eu.org/

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:12 PM

I'm too timid to post to any thread this controversial.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:16 PM

Oh, for heaven's sake... :-)

It's literal. The abominable snowman smacks the penguin. Check it out.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:19 PM

Ha! 561.3m

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:24 PM

One By One the Penguins are Stealing my Sanity

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:26 PM

Argh! Les, you are going to drive me mad! Mad, I tell you!!!

Why is it that Hull has more than its share of lunatics?

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:29 PM

Is 487.6 good?

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:36 PM

Ok, is 567.4 good?

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:40 PM

Yeah, that's good. You gotta hit the Pengy so he bounces a few times. It calls for a somewhat late swing.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:44 PM

Send some of what you're smokin'. I want to catch up to you guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:45 PM

Old. Also short. Hawk, you're old & short... :p

I seem to remember concluding, in February, that it was impossible to get more than 595.5m for a bouncing penguin, or 490.5m for a high trajectory penguin (assuming you're playing the original - I've seen at least another two versions that are essentially the same, but have longer distances).

So, no, you're a good 40m short of the record, old boy! :p

;)

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:49 PM

Got (593). Is there source code to this anywhere? I could get my oldest boy to add statistics to track your longest distance and you average.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:56 PM

492 on a high trajectory arc. You do know I'm not reporting the really, really bad ones, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Shlio
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 04:59 PM

And just when you think it's finally gone...a penguin thread comes back...

(Actually I'm reverting to sarcasm because I can't hit it that far!)

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 05:01 PM

Sigh. I must be playing it on the wrong site.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Amos
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 07:07 PM

God, Strick!! And you a Republican!! I am impressed!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 09:06 PM

Being a good Republican I didn't report all the misses or the times it only with 50. Just what you would expect.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 09:54 PM

I've gotten 593+.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 10:54 PM

Little Hawk, I followed your link, and all I got was a white screen. Is it the wind-blasted Antarctic snowfields?

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 11:47 PM

Has anyone seen the new version in which the club is studded with spikes and the penguin bleeds and flies apart in pieces? Yuck!

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 11:47 PM

Hi, Leeneia...I'm not sure what the problem would be. It works for me. Maybe someone can do a blue clicky for you.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 08:04 AM

I got 493.6 on a high hit and 593 on a skim - it's too addictive

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,earthling
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 08:36 AM

Is this predominantly a male thing? I haven't got over 203 and miss more times than hit. My penguin just keeps ending up nose first infront of the yeti. His beak is blunt. Maybe I've just got a dodgy bat.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: jeffp
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 10:13 AM

573.8

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 10:22 AM

Never mind, LH. I have never been any good at sports that involved hitting a target.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Amos
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 10:27 AM

531.6 Not world class, but an improvement.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 10:35 AM

Try click then click and hold, then release to bat - it may only work on a Mac

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Amos
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 11:05 AM

Thanks for the advice SM -- got 593.5.

Must tear self away from the mouse of death....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 12:13 PM

Steee-RIKE

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 12:25 PM

Here's a larger version, for even more fun!

Full-screen version of Penguin Game

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 06:29 PM

Blackcatter - that's a different version that gives shorter distances. I tried it, & had a high trajectory penguin come down at under 200m!

The rest of you have still got 595.5 as a target... :p

On the other hand, here's a challenge which is surprisingly difficult. On the standard version (i.e. a Hawk version, not a BC version), what's the shortest distance you can achieve, having hit the penguin!! 0.0m for a miss doesn't count... ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,earthking
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 06:48 PM

Still haven't got over 203....beat that.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: McMusic
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 03:20 AM

491.6.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 03:25 AM

Limpit thinks this is about beating small chocolate biscuit bars.... but just think, we could start a whole new game off by substituting a fist for the club and a horse for the penguin.... then those Punch the horse threads might mean something to everyone outside of a circle with a 5.8mile radius around Hull.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Biskit
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 03:54 AM

578.1

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 02:36 PM

This is absolutely childish and very unbecoming.

574.9

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 03:04 PM

Stoopid game. THIS IS A CHILDISH THREAD!

XXX.3

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 03:07 PM

Yes it is. I really surprises me that you are even on it, Bruce. :-)

WHACK!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 04:55 PM

578.7

Absolutely childish, Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Biskit
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 06:38 PM

the larger version dosn't seem to smack the lil' bugger as hard
593

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 06:41 PM

It doesn't Biskit, I said that already.

Still 595.5 to beat then, ya wimps... :p

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Jozzo][
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 06:42 PM

567+ ... bouncing penguin
492.5 ... high trajectory penguin

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Jozzo][
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 06:53 PM

574+

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 09:33 PM

Brucie - maybe if it was cat you were whacking away at.

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 12:04 AM

Now you have my undivided attention. Stoopid game.

583.2

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 12:15 AM

593

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Phot
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 03:33 AM

593, seems to be a popular distance!!

Wassail! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 11:02 AM

I find it shocking that adults would waste their time on this nonsense...


WHaCK!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Biskit
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:19 PM

593.1

Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:42 PM

Biskit, on a non-Mac?