 sj |
||
|
||
BS: Tilting penguins
|
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 00 - 10:49 PM I MISS OPUS! Remember when Bill & Opus ran for president and vice president under the slogan "This Time Why Not The Worst?" God, I miss those days!!! Now, I wonder if the British were to hover directly overhead with a helicopter if the penguins would start watching the rotor blades and end up screwing themselves right into the ice pack? Someone should try it and see. Penguin lust? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Troll Date: 09 Nov 00 - 12:33 PM BillR, Remember Opus? Penguin Lust! ROTFLMAO! troll |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 09 Nov 00 - 12:12 PM Excellent Steve Bell cartoon in Todays Guardian depicts shifty-looking penguin on street as a policeman passes behind him, over he goes, then Policeman invites him to "blow into the bag sir?" Laughed out loud on the 7-45 to Paddington (Very bad form dont-you-know?) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: BillR Date: 08 Nov 00 - 01:34 PM Ok, it's not about penguins falling over, and I didn't write it. But my favorite song about penguins seems appropriate for this thread. It's called Penguin Lust. -Bill |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Art Thieme Date: 08 Nov 00 - 12:06 AM I'd like to remind y'all that when Admiral Byrd saw his first penguin he said, "What an admirable bird." Art Thieme |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Bernard Date: 07 Nov 00 - 03:24 PM Sorry! Forgot about the pesky BR's!
All my mates around are raring to go |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Bernard Date: 07 Nov 00 - 03:18 PM All my mates around are raring to go I'm waiting here on this ice floe I hate to wake you up, you'd punch my eye Now the dawn is breaking, it's early morn The planes are flying towards Cape Horn Already I'm so frozen I could die I'm peeping at a jet plane I've fallen on my back again Oh, what a way to go!
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Noreen Date: 07 Nov 00 - 11:46 AM Wonderful thread!! I've been giggling happily to myself here, unlike the poor wee penguins- but they're resilient! Dave tg- count me in for the study. Photos posted in Mudcat Resources later... Noreen |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Grab Date: 07 Nov 00 - 11:05 AM A Dylan-ish Watchtower-ish contribution to the musical effort:-
"There must be some way up from here," |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: MMario Date: 07 Nov 00 - 11:05 AM the main predator of ADULT penguins are whales and seals. The main predators of EGGS and CHICKS are gulls and terns - who can devastate a rookery |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Grab Date: 07 Nov 00 - 10:56 AM It'd be interesting if they did think of them as predators. The main penguin-eating things are seals and killer whales, and the thought of a flying killer whale is not something I can sustain for very long. Mind you, I doubt they could sustain it very long - cue either Monty Python's sheep ("Note that they do not so much fly, as plummet"), or HHGTTG ("Ooh, that looks awfully big. I think I'll call it 'ground'. It seems to be coming towards me quite fast. I wonder if it'll be friends with me?"). Grab. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Nov 00 - 08:25 AM Ever since our club residents started singing 'Penguin Eggs' (The song that is - I had to explain or someone was bound to ask how can you sing eggs....) some years ago we have become inundated with all manner of toy/stuffed/plastic penguins. And I'm sure the little buggers are breeding - every time I open up the folk club 'bits box' there are more of them! Maybe as part of the Manchester Mudcatters get-togther we cam do a study on how much Robinson's ale it takes to make a penguin look like it has fallen over:-) D the G |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: sian, west wales Date: 07 Nov 00 - 06:22 AM I've a friend who did two tours with the British Antarctic Survey team (mad, they're all mad) and says that penguins certainly do topple. And scoring in the game with 'choppers - see Magician above - is a lot more difficult than doing it with jets ... speed helps, so the 'chopper crews have to rely on technique ... Get a life, boys. sian |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: sophocleese Date: 06 Nov 00 - 11:30 PM Can't we just tilt the whole landmass so that they slide out into the sea and can then climb out again onto their feet? Maybe if we time the tilt properly one of the planes will crash into the side of the continent, removing its nuisance value and, umm, levelling the playing field. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Homeless Date: 06 Nov 00 - 06:07 PM Maybe the fact that the planes are so high is the problem. If they fly at a lower altitude and faster then the penguins will move so quick that they'll just do a flip and end up back on their feet - problem solved. Or if that doesn't work, they could be supplied with The Wrong Trousers and just have a button programmed to stand them back up. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Kim C Date: 06 Nov 00 - 05:45 PM It is now time for the penguin on your television set to explode. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Quincy Date: 06 Nov 00 - 05:42 PM Noooooooo you're not thread creeping Ickle! We'll find a connection somewhere....um...Queen Mother....er....royal family...yes got it!! Original posting....it's "King" Penguins that are falling over!!!.... Yvonne ;) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Linda Kelly Date: 06 Nov 00 - 05:30 PM i apologise (under duress from my husband)for the tastelessness of the previous remark). But.. all I know is that if my mum had had a fall and she lived 30 miles up the road, then it might have taken me a little less time than a whole weekend before I visited her, whether or not I was the Queen of bloody England or not!I also might have raised my profile in those areas devastated by floods rather than sitting in my ivory tower. long live the republic! (I beleive i might have crept somewhat threadwise that is!) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Linda Kelly Date: 06 Nov 00 - 05:08 PM Oh my God!- you don't suppose the RAF did a fly past over Clarence House on Friday causing the Queen Mum (God bless her) to look up and then topple back causing her unfortunate accident????!!!?? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: magician Date: 05 Nov 00 - 07:14 AM penguins the RAF chopper crews have a weekly competition to see who can knock over the most penguins. the take photos after every pass then count the number on their back. the winning crew gets the crate of beer. it's good to see them keeping up the British Forces will known sense of loonacy. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: magician Date: 05 Nov 00 - 07:09 AM de-caf? how does anyone get through the day without regular doses of good strong freshground coffee.
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: sledge Date: 05 Nov 00 - 02:25 AM Quincy, couldn't see the show unfortunately but thanks for endorsing the idea, I only put it foreward with the animals best interest at heart. Troll, I refuse to even acknowledge the possibilty of life without caffiene.
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Quincy Date: 04 Nov 00 - 11:54 AM On tv's "Have I got news for you" last night Paul Merton suggested that the little guys had foam trousers for them to wear to bounce back? See Troll, sledge's idea wasn't so strange after all!! ;-) These foam trousers would however interfere with their fishing expeditions as the foam would make their poor little bottoms float to the top!!! Yes I know.....I need more sleep and de-caff too!!!! Sledge....did you see the programme? Headline of course....Ppppppick up a Penguin!!! best wishes, Yvonne |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Troll Date: 04 Nov 00 - 11:17 AM sledge, you need to get more sleep. And switch to de-caf. troll ***BG*** |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: sledge Date: 04 Nov 00 - 04:26 AM If the penguins do indeed fall over, then maybe the fitting of a circular foam pad around their nest would help. Upon falling over they would bounce back up, disconcerting at first maybe, but I am sure they would soon get used to it.
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Nov 00 - 03:45 AM Put penguins in stilletoes and a) they would sink anyway, stilletoes being notorious for going through holes in the road, linoleum, soft surfaces (once walked around for half the day with a doggie doo impaled upon one of my 5 inch spike heels..... guess why I gave up wearing them!!), so that wouldn't help, and b) their eggs would roll off their toes and would never hatch.... And I thought that polar bears didn't eat penguins because the chocolate was so hard to wash out of their fur..... LTS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: P05139 Date: 03 Nov 00 - 09:28 PM I reckon that all this is cruelty to dumb animals!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Linda Kelly Date: 03 Nov 00 - 05:15 PM Surely if they were kitted out with stilleto heels this would counter balance the effect causing them naturally to lean forward - of course after a night on the cap this may result in them falling flat on their fronts rather than their backs (gosh my youth is flooding back!)???? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: MMario Date: 03 Nov 00 - 04:57 PM Mr. Popper had penguins. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: mousethief Date: 03 Nov 00 - 02:55 PM Perhaps it flew up there. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Kim C Date: 03 Nov 00 - 02:49 PM Oh dear. There's a penguin on the television set. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Robby Date: 03 Nov 00 - 02:42 PM You don't suppose they're actually referring to the hockey team in Pittsburgh, do you? That might explain some recent seasons. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: annamill Date: 03 Nov 00 - 01:31 PM Ya know, 'spaw, I'd rather they use the money and planes for this cause than what they're meant to be used for. Poor lil birds! L., A. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: GUEST,Den at work Date: 03 Nov 00 - 01:22 PM Sorry couldn't resist. To the tune of Barrets Privateers. Well here I lie on the ground again How I wish I was in the north pole now When a bloody great jet roared overhead I heard the noise and I raised me head God damn then all down I fell Me dressed up in the suit as well If I had a hat I could roll on me chest Now me arse is froze and I'n half deaf I hate that bloody RAF. Den |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: mousethief Date: 03 Nov 00 - 12:13 PM The one by Willie Nelson.
Alex |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Troll Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:54 AM The Antarctic predators are Leopard seals.Farther north you might have Frigate birds and other avian predators. The deep-diving penguins can see them on the surface as they return from dives. An object on the surface in clear water looks like it's floating in the sky so thats a possible answer. Thanks RtS. "Drainpipe" trousers are(I guess) what we call "stovepipe" over here, so my question was valid after all. troll |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: MMario Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:47 AM gulls and terns- prey on eggs and chicks. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Ebbie Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:43 AM Come to think, I'm surprised that some enterprising government types haven't years ago introduced a colony of penguins into Alaska while ferrying polar bears to Antarctica. We've done just about everything else. By the way, just what are the predators at the Antarctic? And why would penguins identify anything from the sky as predatorial? Perhaps birds after their eggs? Eb |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:28 AM Over here in the UK a Penguin is a chocolate covered biscuit (other threads refer). On another thread Steve accused me of still wearing flared trousers, I responded by saying I still wore drainpipe trousers (it's a 1950's thing!). It sounds better in dialect (don't get us started on THAT!) RtS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: sledge Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:24 AM Penguin, British chocolate covered buscuit (cookie) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Troll Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:11 AM So. Which one of us is THAT? troll...who wishes someone would explain the "silver paper" thingy. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Steve Parkes Date: 03 Nov 00 - 10:50 AM The man in the drainpipe trousers is correct!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 03 Nov 00 - 08:50 AM I think the answer Steve was hoping for is:"Because they can't get the silver paper off". RtS (worn out old jokes revived, condition immaterial, we have no shame) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Troll Date: 03 Nov 00 - 07:18 AM Because the feathers tickle their tonsils? Actually, they probably would if they lived in the same hemi-sphere. The northernmost range of the penguin in the wild is(I think)in the Galapagos Islands. I'm SURE someone will correct me if I'm wrong. troll |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: MartinRyan Date: 03 Nov 00 - 06:47 AM I love the assumption that the cap will be worn with the peak at the back (and the beak at he front?)... Regards |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Steve Parkes Date: 03 Nov 00 - 06:35 AM Which of the seventeen tunes i now called "On the road again" did you have in mind, Alex? Why don't polar bears eat penguins? (Remeber, you'll need to explain it to the folks across the pond!) Steve |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Nov 00 - 04:52 AM I tried for ages to think of something for this, but it defies even MY warped perception. How about giving them all baseball caps with hard peaks, so that when they fall over, the peak will hit the ground first and make them roll over onto their fronts, from where they can get up again......? How about we all start taking the medication again......!! LTS |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: MMario Date: 02 Nov 00 - 11:19 AM Oh Prince of Mouse-thieves, bless your lyric writing heart! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: mousethief Date: 02 Nov 00 - 11:04 AM On my back again To the tune of "On the Road Again"
On my back again
On my back again
On our backs again (repeat either chorus and verse ad ifinitum, and fade) ©2000 Alex E Riggle. All Rights Reserved. -----
Alex |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Tilting penguins From: Bill D Date: 02 Nov 00 - 10:51 AM I propose we fund only music-related projects.....like: DOES your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight? (Watched Little Roy Lewis of the Lewis Family gospel group do a test once....at Winfield festival, they appeared Friday night, and after the first song, Dad Lewis motioned at Roy and said something....and Roy looked sheepish and took a wad of chewing gum out of his mouth....and walked over and stuck it on a post holding up the stage roof. 2 more days of music................then Sunday evening, the Lewis family did their last set, waved goodbye and trooped off the stage....and Roy ran back on, reached up, and retrieved his gum and 'seemed' to stick it back in his mouth!......All rehearsed sthick, no doubt, but there were enough who got it to make the whole think worthwhile.) |