November 26, 2008

Penguin jumps into boat to escape Killer Whales.
posted by homunculus 15 years ago
  • *applauds*
  • thats awesome but if I were in that boat I think I'd be a little nervous...
  • I was cheering for the whale...not to eat the Penquin, but to get the idiots in the boat....
  • Looking around for a version without the stupid music, I found this one which, from the info, looks like it's closer to the source. Still has the music, though. But that in turn led to this blog about living on Antarctica, which has some nice stuff.
  • He's probably been sent over from the colony to tell them to turn that godawful Prodigy shite down, some people are trying to hatch an egg.
  • "...and that, my son, is how I ended up in this zoo. Some days, I wish I'd stayed in the water, and tried my luck with the whales."
  • I liked how once it was in the boat, the penguin showed the whales its ass. And here's my penguin story, just because. A friend volunteered at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, and offered us a backstage (so to speak) tour, which included playing with penguins. They're dense, heavy beings, IIRC, and it was fascinating to see the tiny feathers that don't look like feathers until one is up close. The highlight, tho, was when one of the herpetologists espied something a little funny about one of the penguins, leapt up, and grabbed it from my friend Barbara's lap. Barbara said, "What did I do?" just as its handler positioned the penguin horizontally, ass toward a wall several feet away, and the penguin let loose a volley of viscous green shit. Shit that splattered, it had such velocity. Then the handler shook the penguin a little and returned it to Barbara's lap. He said, "They're famous for that."
  • "a volley of viscous green shit" OK, then.... Let's all go have thanksgiving dinner!
  • Yup, always shake before returning your penguin to its proper place. What? That was NOT a double entendre.
  • He's dressed like Mr. Whiskers. They should start a swing choir or something.
  • I didn't know you had a cat.
  • I think the penguin was just fucking with the orcas. It could've swum to shore easily enough in the time it was circling and doing the little jumps out of the water. Show off.
  • I thought it was the other way around, roryk. It looked to me like the orcas were just lazily circling the penguin and didn't seem to serious about eating it. goofyfoot, that was hilarious! Sure made me burst out laughing. *wipes computer screen*
  • Orcas do have a keen sense of fun. I saw footage of them playing keep-up with an unfortunate seal.
  • The juxtaposition of the two links above is problematic and perhaps not politically correct. Apparently, this is a life-style choice among all types of penguins: We're here, we're queer, we're penguins Gay penguins just want to lead a normal life
  • Maybe those penguins are into heavy metal... Mercury turns wetland birds such as ibises homosexual
  • Ach! These waterfowl- are they venturing into [ominous organ music] mallard drake territory?