Comments on: Every lady loves a sharp dressed man

Every lady loves a sharp dressed man

Stynxno — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:09:57 -0800

GIANT PENGUINS! The discovery in 2005 of fossils in Peru is challenging previous views about the evolution of penguins. They were tall, fast, and enjoyed being smacked by cavemen*.

* may not be true

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:18:06 -0800

Penguin evolution is a fib! Also, the Earth isn't round. Yep! Shaped like a burrito!

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:23:27 -0800

Ah, Wolfdog you beat me to it you hairless ape you.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:28:25 -0800

Mom?

By: hell toupee

hell toupee — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:44:52 -0800

I'm having nun of it.

By: carmen

carmen — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:49:07 -0800

that game is more fun than it ought to be.

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:49:14 -0800

I'd never seen the Amercian Museum of Natural History site before, good stuff.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:49:23 -0800

Tekil-li-li!

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:51:50 -0800

This was probably released just to promote some upcoming penguin-themed movie. Why no love for the narwhal?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:57:21 -0800

I thought it was "every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man."

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:05:50 -0800

308 yards. I was made to club cute things.

By: hexxed

hexxed — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:13:57 -0800

316.6 yards and damn right that game is more fun then it ought to be.

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:18:58 -0800

322.9, soon to be topped by the next commenter.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:20:25 -0800

317.1

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:20:38 -0800

damn

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:22:35 -0800

GIANT PENGUINS! Well... 5 feet tall penguins are only marginally bigger than the 4 foot tall Emperor Penguins we still enjoy today. There would probably be a lot of size overlap in fact.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:30:26 -0800

LA Times: The newly discovered giant penguin is not the tallest — that honor goes to a 6 1/2 -foot penguin fossil found on an island near Antarctica Ok, that'd prolly be pretty intimidating. Especially any marching there of.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:38:16 -0800

I am thinking of what it would be like to accidentally come across a giant penguin. I imagine my response would be something like "holy shit!" The penguin, most likely, would just stare. And then it would be me and a giant penguin. Hanging out. That could be alright.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:47:01 -0800

I've always wanted to be friends with a robot, but on consideration, a giant penguin would be a fine substitute.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:28 -0800

Scott of the Antarctic, er the GIANT PENGUIN bit happens at around 10:40, but the rest is mint as well. Great, great!

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:05:04 -0800

5 feet tall penguins are only marginally bigger than the 4 foot tall Emperor Penguins we still enjoy today. There would probably be a lot of size overlap in fact. Four feet of overlap, by my calculations.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:27:30 -0800

Giant penguins? Excellent, this will work into my plans perfectly... *steeples fingers* Bwahahaha

By: tadellin

tadellin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:29:56 -0800

Hey, but a 6 1/2 foot tall penguin would be a SHOO-IN for the Billy Madison sequel...

By: cerebus19

cerebus19 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:33:11 -0800

If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as the man and then compare the relative brain size, we now find that the penguin's brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it was.

By: Sangermaine

Sangermaine — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:29:39 -0800

You're all looking at it backwards. Today we have miniature penguins. Hopefully this shrinking trend will continue until we have adorable palm-sized ones.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:54:04 -0800

adorable palm-sized penguin

By: garethspor

garethspor — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:01:13 -0800

323.5!!!!!

By: pandaharma

pandaharma — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:38:00 -0800

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the obvious (only?) literary reference to oversized penguins... Suddenly a bulky white shape loomed up ahead of us, and we flashed on the second torch. It is odd how wholly this new quest had turned our minds from earlier fears of what might lurk near. Those other ones, having left their supplies in the great circular place, must have planned to return after their scouting trip toward or into the abyss; yet we had now discarded all caution concerning them as completely as if they had never existed. This white, waddling thing was fully six feet high, yet we seemed to realize at once that it was not one of those others. They were larger and dark, and, according to the sculptures, their motion over land surfaces was a swift, assured matter despite the queerness of their sea-born tentacle equipment. But to say that the white thing did not profoundly frighten us would be vain. We were indeed clutched for an instant by primitive dread almost sharper than the worst of our reasoned fears regarding those others. Then came a flash of anticlimax as the white shape sidled into a lateral archway to our left to join two others of its kind which had summoned it in raucous tones. For it was only a penguin - albeit of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known king penguins, and monstrous in its combined albinism and virtual eyelessness. -- Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:15:31 -0800

[the only literary reference to oversized penguins?] Apparently you didn't really get the subtext to Hamlet.

By: Tube

Tube — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:25:05 -0800

Ivan Sanderson and the 15 foot tall penguin. (Self link)

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:22:40 -0800

321 -- but I still suck at this. Doesn't seem to be any middle ground for me. I hit it in (or close) to the 300's about 50 percent of the time, and either whiff or get way below 100 the rest of the time.

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:10:59 -0800

And then it would be me and a giant penguin. Hanging out. Kinda like this. (that's my boyfriend. on the left, not the penguin.)