[870] in Humor
HUMOR (classic): Fun with Penguins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon May 8 11:54:11 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 11:50:05 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
BTW: If you want to have a really good time, bring a laser pointer to your
local aquarium and shine it on the wall. They're fascinated by it!
-Drew
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 11:03:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Berczuk <berczuk@space.mit.edu>
From: Rod Holland - Sun BOS Software <Rod.Holland@East.Sun.COM>
Subject: Penguin Bowling
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> | Penguin Bowling
> | _Audobon_Society_Magazine_
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> |
> | "A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots
> | stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they
> | consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins
> | are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach
> | where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the
> | water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads
> | in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn
> | around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite
> | direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then,
> | the paper reports, 'the pilots fly out to sea and directly to
> | the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and
> | ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs.'"
> |
