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BS: Smack the Penguin!!!

25 Mar 04 - 03:38 PM (#1146098)
Subject: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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


25 Mar 04 - 04:12 PM (#1146121)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

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


25 Mar 04 - 04:16 PM (#1146123)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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

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

- LH


25 Mar 04 - 04:19 PM (#1146129)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Les from Hull

Ha! 561.3m


25 Mar 04 - 04:24 PM (#1146132)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

One By One the Penguins are Stealing my Sanity


25 Mar 04 - 04:26 PM (#1146134)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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?


25 Mar 04 - 04:29 PM (#1146137)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

Is 487.6 good?


25 Mar 04 - 04:36 PM (#1146142)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

Ok, is 567.4 good?


25 Mar 04 - 04:40 PM (#1146145)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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

- LH


25 Mar 04 - 04:44 PM (#1146151)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

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


25 Mar 04 - 04:45 PM (#1146152)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf

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

;)


25 Mar 04 - 04:49 PM (#1146156)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

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.


25 Mar 04 - 04:56 PM (#1146164)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

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


25 Mar 04 - 04:59 PM (#1146167)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Shlio

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!)


25 Mar 04 - 05:01 PM (#1146169)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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


25 Mar 04 - 07:07 PM (#1146242)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Amos

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


A


25 Mar 04 - 09:06 PM (#1146318)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Strick

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


25 Mar 04 - 09:54 PM (#1146342)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: wysiwyg

I've gotten 593+.

~S~


25 Mar 04 - 10:54 PM (#1146367)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,leeneia

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


25 Mar 04 - 11:47 PM (#1146384)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,pdc

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


25 Mar 04 - 11:47 PM (#1146385)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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


26 Mar 04 - 08:04 AM (#1146592)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Splott Man

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


26 Mar 04 - 08:36 AM (#1146609)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,earthling

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.


26 Mar 04 - 10:13 AM (#1146688)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: jeffp

573.8


26 Mar 04 - 10:22 AM (#1146699)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,leeneia

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


26 Mar 04 - 10:27 AM (#1146703)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Amos

531.6 Not world class, but an improvement.

A


26 Mar 04 - 10:35 AM (#1146709)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Splott Man

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


26 Mar 04 - 11:05 AM (#1146737)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Amos

Thanks for the advice SM -- got 593.5.

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


A


26 Mar 04 - 12:13 PM (#1146806)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: John MacKenzie

Steee-RIKE


26 Mar 04 - 12:25 PM (#1146813)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Blackcatter

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

Full-screen version of Penguin Game


26 Mar 04 - 06:29 PM (#1147069)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf

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... ;)


26 Mar 04 - 06:48 PM (#1147089)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,earthking

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


27 Mar 04 - 03:20 AM (#1147373)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: McMusic

491.6.


27 Mar 04 - 03:25 AM (#1147375)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Liz the Squeak

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


27 Mar 04 - 03:54 AM (#1147381)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Biskit

578.1


27 Mar 04 - 02:36 PM (#1147713)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

This is absolutely childish and very unbecoming.

574.9


27 Mar 04 - 03:04 PM (#1147732)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Stoopid game. THIS IS A CHILDISH THREAD!

XXX.3


27 Mar 04 - 03:07 PM (#1147734)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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

WHACK!!!!


27 Mar 04 - 04:55 PM (#1147789)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

578.7

Absolutely childish, Little Hawk.


27 Mar 04 - 06:38 PM (#1147844)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Biskit

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


27 Mar 04 - 06:41 PM (#1147846)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf

It doesn't Biskit, I said that already.

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


27 Mar 04 - 06:42 PM (#1147848)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Jozzo][

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


27 Mar 04 - 06:53 PM (#1147851)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Jozzo][

574+


27 Mar 04 - 09:33 PM (#1147917)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Blackcatter

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


28 Mar 04 - 12:04 AM (#1147973)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Now you have my undivided attention. Stoopid game.

583.2


28 Mar 04 - 12:15 AM (#1147980)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

593


28 Mar 04 - 03:33 AM (#1148059)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Phot

593, seems to be a popular distance!!

Wassail! Chris


28 Mar 04 - 11:02 AM (#1148220)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

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


WHaCK!!!


28 Mar 04 - 08:19 PM (#1148545)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Biskit

593.1


28 Mar 04 - 08:42 PM (#1148558)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Biskit, on a non-Mac?


28 Mar 04 - 08:48 PM (#1148563)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Stoopid game.

423.5


29 Mar 04 - 03:43 AM (#1148764)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Etrurian

593.5
Lucky hit I guess.


29 Mar 04 - 09:16 AM (#1149005)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Raggytash

At last 593 spot on


29 Mar 04 - 02:23 PM (#1149244)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Crap! Stoopid f#ckin' penguin. 482.7


29 Mar 04 - 03:32 PM (#1149291)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: alanabit

You sad


29 Mar 04 - 03:34 PM (#1149293)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: alanabit

You sadistic bastards!
(I got 491.2)


29 Mar 04 - 04:46 PM (#1149366)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

alanabit: this is a really e75#93&o*7w5yl game. My scores are dropping. Ontarioionians!!! I bet LH isn't even PLAYIN" the f#c*in' game--sittin' back, suckin' on a Labatt's, thinkin' of William Shatner, laughin' at the rest of us. Time to pull out the big guns, just like Bush and the boys:       622.4


29 Mar 04 - 04:48 PM (#1149370)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

OK, it's a lie. Worked for Bush though, didn't it?    422.4

LH, put that damn beer down, right now! And stop laughin'!


29 Mar 04 - 04:50 PM (#1149372)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

Heh! Mr Chongo just drove another telemarketer off the line. Life is good.


29 Mar 04 - 04:56 PM (#1149384)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Give the telemarketer the link to the penguin game if ya wanna get even! Tell him the high score is 663.


29 Mar 04 - 05:01 PM (#1149396)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Raedwulf

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

Ok, so you're excused censure then Hawk... :p

;)


30 Mar 04 - 07:40 AM (#1149855)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Laurent at work

You can find the original one + two extra ones at http://yeti.e-medien.com/

You can play on line and leave your name in the Hall of Fame.

In the first length, the longest distance is 323,5m. My smallest one is 65.4m (very hard to get less).

A bientôt


30 Mar 04 - 10:32 AM (#1150017)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: The DeanMeister

556.3. I'm gonna get you for this, LH.


31 Mar 04 - 01:30 AM (#1150687)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

Just imagine that I am the penguin, DeanMeister.


31 Mar 04 - 05:32 AM (#1150804)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST

smack the penguin rocks!!!!!!


31 Mar 04 - 06:27 AM (#1150815)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Raggytash

593 spot on with a high trajectory but mange 588.2 with a low trajectory and don't you dare call me a sad bastard !!


31 Mar 04 - 01:44 PM (#1151123)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Stoopid game. Don't ask.


31 Mar 04 - 02:21 PM (#1151152)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: John MacKenzie


This is where the fun really starts

John the Smack [Penguin] Addict


31 Mar 04 - 11:07 PM (#1151533)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Bill D

...so? Has anyone tried the other 2 games? I just got 1285 on the seal bounce....I forget on the Orca slap, but it's harder!

...and since when are we getting over 600 on the original? Everyone was stuck at 597 or so, I thought...


01 Apr 04 - 10:53 AM (#1151997)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Bill D: That is a bs score to tell a telemarketer.


01 Apr 04 - 11:06 AM (#1152009)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

The seal bounce is strange. The best I've gotten on it was around 1100 so far. I think it helps to hang on longer before releasing the penguin.

- LH


01 Apr 04 - 11:14 AM (#1152019)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Good Gawd. The boys have lost it.


01 Apr 04 - 11:58 AM (#1152059)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Bill D

LH...you do realize you can flip the penguin back up...like a pinball game...if it comes down on a seal on the wall.

I have not experimented with variations in release techniques, except to try to aim as nearly vertical as possible....I 'think' an angle which bounces him mear the top will be best.


01 Apr 04 - 12:29 PM (#1152080)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,Van

Go easy on the penguin - give or take a few hanging chads and this might be the new leader of the western world:

http://www.gaypenguinforamerica.com

(couldn't manage the blue clicky)

(added-JoeClone)


01 Apr 04 - 02:14 PM (#1152145)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST

Is smacking the penguin the same thing as wringing the weasel?


01 Apr 04 - 03:22 PM (#1152189)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

No, GUEST, it just sounds like it is. :-) Check out the website.


01 Apr 04 - 04:02 PM (#1152225)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: jeffp

I've hit 593 twice!


01 Apr 04 - 04:20 PM (#1152238)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Well, jeffp, I have hit under 200 lotsa times. Show-off. Braggart.

Stoopid game.


01 Apr 04 - 04:53 PM (#1152264)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

It's not easy to get past 593. Not easy at all. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth a few thousand more hours of your time...

- LH


01 Apr 04 - 07:09 PM (#1152376)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Ebbie

593.5 I'll be back...


01 Apr 04 - 08:29 PM (#1152415)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Oh, yeah? 491. Try to hit that exactly. Now, THAT is a challenge.


01 Apr 04 - 08:59 PM (#1152428)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Virgin no more. I have been screwed by the penguin.


01 Apr 04 - 09:35 PM (#1152446)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

An unforgettable experience, Bruce. If you have any regrets contact me about my new Internet company: Virginity Restorations


03 Apr 04 - 10:15 PM (#1153879)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Virility Restorations. What an idea. I bet you are a William Shatner fan. You know, he deserves the spot in the Victoria's Secret ads. Just him and Dylan. What a scene. That would have pissed off the Star Trek fans, but the girl guest could have drooled in silence. Wow. Just think. What a scene.


04 Apr 04 - 03:52 PM (#1154305)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

That snowman can't bat worth s#it.


04 Apr 04 - 06:16 PM (#1154365)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

I agree that Shatner should have been in the ad too. How that ever escaped Victoria's Secret is beyond me.


28 Apr 04 - 10:59 AM (#1173162)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,earthling

http://andrewg1323.uk.ro/ping.swf   try the Michael Winner version. 1000+ for a head with no problems. Messy though.


28 Apr 04 - 12:22 PM (#1173259)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

I'd forgot about the f#ckin' penguin.


28 Apr 04 - 12:28 PM (#1173264)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

874.7, but it took about ten times.


28 Apr 04 - 05:23 PM (#1173494)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: 42

I smack the penguin 20 times each morning before heading to a classroom filled with six year olds. It's amazing the release giving that little schmuck a few good whacks can deliver.

the thread may be weakening but the penguin lives on.

with the goat!
j


29 Apr 04 - 12:04 AM (#1173753)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: LadyJean

That game is addictive!!!!!! A friend from Toronto sent it to me, and I've wasted a lot of time with it.
Do they have penguins in Canada? I know they have a lot of snow up there. What about Yetis? Are there Canadian Yetis?


29 Apr 04 - 01:22 AM (#1173785)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,peedeecee

I think (??) penguins are only at the south pole, but maybe I'm wrong. We have yetis, however - sasquatches, as they are known. Most of them have been elected to parliament.


29 Apr 04 - 03:29 AM (#1173814)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

878.9


29 Apr 04 - 07:47 AM (#1173952)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Dave Hanson

Q. what's got 200 balls and shags penguins ?
A. a twelve bore [ 12 gauge if you are an American ]

eric


29 Apr 04 - 09:30 AM (#1174029)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Bassic

1064.2


29 Apr 04 - 03:51 PM (#1174339)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: rock chick

566.9 now that is a poor effort, i think he was worn out before i got there, so i blame the person before me ;0)


29 Apr 04 - 09:57 PM (#1174563)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Bassic

1151.9   I think I had better take on the Penguin bashing duties eh! ;-)


30 Apr 04 - 05:46 PM (#1175334)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Show off.


30 Apr 04 - 06:07 PM (#1175349)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

982.4


30 Apr 04 - 06:43 PM (#1175369)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

I can't believe those high scores above 600. You people must be playing a different version. Please post the link.


30 Apr 04 - 09:07 PM (#1175463)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Bassic

I am playing the one posted earlier...the "Michael Winner" version


01 May 04 - 04:47 PM (#1176079)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

The link is above: Apr 4, 10:59 AM


01 May 04 - 04:49 PM (#1176081)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Sorry. Apr 28, 10:59 AM


01 May 04 - 06:45 PM (#1176131)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

Ugh! That's kind of disgusting. I prefer the original.


01 May 04 - 07:26 PM (#1176153)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Low score, huh?


01 May 04 - 07:35 PM (#1176158)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Little Hawk

I got 941 one time.


01 May 04 - 08:11 PM (#1176183)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Peace

Show off. Et tu, Brute?


02 May 04 - 04:47 PM (#1176501)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: Art Thieme

Here's a song challenge for you all:

title: "Smack, The Little Penquin"

Since it is said that "Puff, The Magic Dragon" is really about smoking marijuana, SMACK (the animal's name)---is also a term for the drug HEROIN.

MUDCATTERS: Go for it...

Art Thieme


02 May 04 - 05:05 PM (#1176517)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: annamill

ok, thats enough!! 497.5! good enough!!


10 May 04 - 02:58 PM (#1182472)
Subject: RE: BS: Smack the Penguin!!!
From: GUEST,hairy salty balls

454454.5 thats more score andf i am stinking to it and this game is adultish cuzz i am a 70 year old man looking for some action