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PENGUIN CONFUSED
Caption of the month:
The penguin appears to have become somewhat confused
Confusion is the least of this guy’s problems; as a lone Magellanic penguin from southern Chile, he now faces Peruvian scorn following a 5,000 kilometre off-course swim:
Biologist David Orosco told AFP news agency that the native birds may even try to reject the penguin.
“Conditions in the park are not the ones it is used to. They usually seek out their own species, and it could suffer discrimination,” Mr Orosco said.
They usually seek out their own species, and it could suffer discrimination,” Mr Orosco said.
Then that penguin had better retain the services of an expert on civil rights.*
* For those non-Americans who are unfamiliar with some of the more farcical aspects of our society, that is a photo of the Reverend Al Sharpton: racial huckster, religious con man, and chief carnival barker for the Tabernacle of Afro-American Entitlement.
These penguins are always losing their bearings. My wife was born and raised in Chile, and they once found a lone baby Magellanic penguin near Vina del Mar (not far from this place, once owned by her grandfather). There is a photo of Mrs. Paco, at a fancy-dress birthday party - she had just turned six - decked out as Marie Antoinette, standing alongside of “Pepito”, who looked particularly smashing in his little top hat and black tie.
Obviously this penguin fled an oppressive Magellanic regime in Chile to seek asylum in Peru, yet now there’s talk of deporting it. Where is Amnesty International in all this? Let the penguin stay!
In other animal news, the Beast of Caer Bannog is on the loose in Northumberland. I blame gerbil worming.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 05 12 at 01:37 PM • permalinkI think the penguin found that the globe isn’t heating up fast enough and was just trying to get warm.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2007 05 12 at 02:10 PM • permalinkO/T, but related to a previous post, it looks like the decision on Lileks may simply have been part of a larger conniption of managerial incompetence .
Aren’t there some migratory polar bears that need a meal? What’s the problem?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 12 at 02:35 PM • permalinkOT: Some Lileks guy says, “Three minutes after I open the laptop I’m laughing at the work of a brilliant Australian columnist.” That’d be Tim Blair.
O/T, sorry, but if there’s an inadvertently humourous photo that sums up the festering shithole that is Pakistan…
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/violence-leaves-at-least-15-dead-in-pakistan/2007/05/12/1178899175442.html
What, other than exporting bearded nutters, is the purpose of this abortion of a country?It looks like someone could have used a Penguin Antarctic Compass & Odometer. With a PACO® he wouldn’t have been late, and off-course, to the party!
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 12 at 03:27 PM • permalinkOT:
Ten-year warming window closing
Scientists at Bristol University say a previously unexplained surge of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in recent years is due to more greenhouse gas escaping from trees, plants and soils. Global warming was making vegetation less able to absorb the carbon pollution pumped out by human activity.
And while we’re on the topic of odd birds, looks like Beck has figured out Anonymous Lefty’s problem: he’s bewitched.
Ten-year warming window closing
Aieee! We’re all going to die!
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 12 at 03:57 PM • permalink#15
That’s right, Andy! Now, the poor fellow is likely to spend years in a Peruvian concentration camp
That would be a Peruvian Approved Concentration Organisation, would it not?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 05 12 at 04:01 PM • permalinkThat’s not a PENGUIN. It’s a midget, scouring Machu Picchu for Inca treasure. I funded his venture, we split 50/50.
Now, if he finds some good stuff and my half isn’t forthcoming, he will be stuffed up a penguins ass.
I told the little bastard to look inconspicuous, and he comes up with this, Jesus.
i]Mr Orosco said he was trying to contact colleagues in the penguin’s home country.
“It would be better for it to go to Chile,” he said.
But was simply seeking asylum!
I expect the full weight of the Australian legal profession and its refugee industry to be thrown behind this poor creature.
It was only looking for a better life and was heading for the east coast of Australia when it was turned back by our despicable coast guard (sent to the eastern Pacific to deal with all those Haitians and Cubans heading our way).
Everyone knows that asylum seekers may land anywhere they damn well please!
I want Mr. Orosco charged with animal rights abuse.
O.T. (sorta)
There were these two guys in a bar, having a loud argument about penguins. The bartender goes over.
BT: So what’s goin’ on here?
GUY: We’re talking about penguins. Tell me, what’s the biggest penguin in the world?
BT: Well, the emperor penguin is two, maybe three feet tall.
GUY: No, I mean the biggest goddam penguin in the whole goddam world!
BT: Like I said, two, maybe three feet.
GUY (to his buddy): See! I told you! That must have been a couple of nuns we hit.
The penguin should have headed to People’s Democratic Republic of Victoria. The Bracks Government set up the Seabird Anti-Discrimination Tribunal just to protect the interests of penguins. Controversially, the first seabird to take advantage of its powers was a seagull. Attorney-General Rob Hulls said later in parliament it was never intended that seagulls would use the provision of the Seabird Anti-Discrimination Tribunal Act but to change the act to exclude them would be too complex. Instead, he will use his proposed Victorian bill of rights to ensure that undesirable elements in the PDRV community, such as seagulls, Christians and and conservative voters, don’t misuse the law to get justice.
The seven dwarfs are in Rome and they go on a tour of the city.
After a while they go to the Vatican and meet the pope. Grumpy, for once,
seems to have a lot to say; he keeps asking the pontiff questions about
the church, and in particular, nuns.“Your Holiness, do you have any really short nuns?”
“No, my son, all our nuns are at least five feet tall.”
“Are you sure? I mean, you wouldn’t have any nuns that are, say,
about my height? Maybe a little shorter?”“I’m afraid not. Why do you ask?”
“No reason.” Pause. “Positive? Nobody in a habit that’s about
three feet tall, two and a half feet tall?”“I’m sure.”
“Okay.”
Grumpy looks dejected at this news, and the pope wonders why.
So he listens to the dwarfs as they leave the building.
“What’d he say? What’d he say?” chant the other six dwarfs.
Grumpy says, “He said they don’t have any.”And the other six start chanting, “Grumpy f**ked a penguin! Grumpy
f**ked a penguin! Grumpy f**ked a penguin!”....The penguin appears to have become somewhat confused
“Hoboken?! I’m dying again!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 12 at 09:42 PM • permalinkHow did they know the penguin was confused?
It couldn’t quote a single passage from Hegel, no matter how often they asked it to…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 12 at 09:43 PM • permalinkI told the little bastard to look inconspicuous, and he comes up with this, Jesus.
wronwright did the best he could. DaveS only left the penguins suit…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 12 at 09:45 PM • permalinkYes, I said penguins. It’s designed to imitate a flock, with the little puppet penguins hitched to the wearer’s ass. Looks like a little bitty wedding reception conga line…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 12 at 09:54 PM • permalinkFeh. Disgruntled. They cancelled NASCAR todayn due to rain. Either because it damps out the crash fires or because the Car Of Tomorrow melts if you get it wet, I’m not sure which…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 12 at 09:59 PM • permalinkThis is my midget. It proves the point the he doesn’t know his ass, from s hole in the ground.
It’s not going to help matters if you blow wronwright’s cover…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 12 at 10:11 PM • permalinkHe will be Ok, all he has to do is smile and wave.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 12 at 11:00 PM • permalinkIt’s not only the penguins that are confused. The staff at the SMH are still running around like heads with their chooks cut off:
Headline today:
“Three teens charged after chrashing stolen car into police.”
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 12 at 11:16 PM • permalink#15 Paco like another. earlier Peruvian asylum seeker, that penguin may well end up as president of Venezuela
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 05 13 at 12:41 AM • permalink#43
“Hoboken?! I’m dying again!”
“Can you help out a fellow American who’s down on his luck?”
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 05 13 at 01:05 AM • permalinkI worked with Kerryn, young enough to be my daughter. A great young person, hard working, good work ethic. Science degree. Very smart, management material. We used to commute together, then she lived with me last year from April to August. If I had a daughter, I’d want her to be like Kerryn. (She prolly would be just like Kerryn!)
Virgin Green Airlines is going eco friendly for Mother Nature.
Don’t tell me little dickie branson is going to run his planes on polar bear farts?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 13 at 05:31 AM • permalink
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Penguinaphobia has got steadily worse under Bush.