July 21, 2004

Vol 12, Issue 28

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July 21, 2004

Penguins Earn Reputation as Noble Bird

"Flightless, Schmightless" Says Spokesbird

DUMONT D'URVILLE, ANTARCTICA --- A spokesbird for the entire world-wide Assembly of Penguins today proclaimed for the 1,250th time that penguins are noble animals, worthy of trust and praise by primates of all stripes. "The fact that we cannot fly is constantly overrated and overvalued by our detractors," stated the handsome spokesbird. Flight itself is overrated."
In fact it is quite well known by any creaturewith hafl a brain in its head that flying is a worthless activity --- silly, useless and undignified.

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N. Hemishpere Blogger Wittig Unfair to Penguins

Slights and Insults Fill Ridiculous robwit.net

MAWSON STATION, ANTARCTICA --- Three especially good-looking penguins announced today that they are officially protesting the number and nature of "penguin gags" on the web log ("blog") or one Rob Wittig of the Northern Hemisphere
"Wittig's slanderous comments are muddleheaded and mean spirited, not to mention woefully ill-informed.

"Had Wittig a shred of sense in that giant simian head of his, he would realise that he should not only leave penguins out of his blog, but he should be sending large barrels of fish this way. We are hungry," said the middle penguin, who is extraordinarily beautiful.

Poll: Penguins Dislike Blogs

73% of the Elegant Birds Interviewed Couldn't Care Less

ACADEMICIAN VERNATSKIY STATION, ANTARCTICA --- A poll released today by the APWCCLAI , The Association of Pentuins Who Couldn't Care Less About the Internet, contained a scathing condemnation of blogs, bloggers, and the entire practice of blogging. In short: "Primates: give up" i

Penguins Especially Pretty in Dim Light

Lengthy Antarctic Twilight "Built to Make Penguins Look Appealing," Expert Avers

NOVALAZAROVSKAYA STATION, ANTARCTICA --- No floodlight? No problem. Photographers will be pleased to learn that penguins are particularly photogenic when the sun is low upon the horizon.
This works out splendidly, because the sun is low pretty much all the time at key penguin lattitudes. What luck!

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Posted by teeny tiny times at July 21, 2004 10:52 AM