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Marthamoo thinks penguins can't get up if they fall over

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Twiglett · 03/05/2005 19:48

can someone else convince her that they can please

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marthamoo · 03/05/2005 19:49

I'll be back when the kids are in bed to sort you out, young lady.

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happymerryberries · 03/05/2005 19:49

They can. But they will fall over if over flown by an RAF Tornado!

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Twiglett · 03/05/2005 19:49

ooo am looking forward to that

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happymerryberries · 03/05/2005 19:50

Dh say that they do, and can I go now, as he would like to talk to me for a change!!!

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hunkermunker · 03/05/2005 19:52

If snopes says it's false (and I saw your link saying so), that's good enough for me. Snopes is FAB! I send it to everyone who sends me blinking spam emails telling me that some poor kid in some poor place will get Microsoft to send them Coke cans or something if enough people reply. Deluded souls

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motherinferior · 03/05/2005 19:52

They must be able to. Otherwise the world would be full of prone rolypoly penguins.


The Antarctic, anyway.

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beansprout · 03/05/2005 19:55

I'd pay good money to see one get up.

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WideWebWitch · 03/05/2005 19:56

ha ha MI has a point. You don't hear a lot about 'the prone penguin problem' do you?

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HRHDuchessofPeahead · 03/05/2005 19:56

haven't youseen thefilm of them toboggoning down a snowy hill on their tummies? (in the antarctic obv, not surrey.) unless there is a pile of prone dead penguins at the bottom of the slope of jollity which they don't show us in the film...

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motherinferior · 03/05/2005 19:57

...bit like the Uplifting Film of Swedish Breastfeeders they show you at King's Hospital, where they get to the bottom of the slope and rip off their reindeer sweaters and nourish their rosy toddlers....

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happymerryberries · 03/05/2005 20:02

LMAO. You are all quite, quite mad!!!!

The male King pengiuns look after the eggs through the freezing arctic winter. Many of them starve or freeze to eath. The mothers bugger off to where it is warmer and there is more food. We can all learn from this girls!

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JanH · 03/05/2005 20:04

Nooo, not the Antarctic, it was Falkland Islands, penguins and the falling over was a myth but they do get upset when low-flying planes go over (and I sympathise, I don't like it either!)

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WideWebWitch · 03/05/2005 20:05

Ah, so it was reported as fact in the Daily Mail? Ah, all becomes clear!

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Louise1980 · 03/05/2005 20:08

Can they even fall over? Do they not need to be pushed?
Their feet are so huge they shouldnt have any problems staying upright!

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SaintGeorge · 03/05/2005 20:10

Trouble is, they are like dominoes - push one and they all go over

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JanH · 03/05/2005 20:10

Their feet are only big in front, Louise! According to the plane story they look up and lean back and then keel over like skittles. Poor lambs.

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Louise1980 · 03/05/2005 20:11

pmsl at that thought!!!

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JoolsToo · 03/05/2005 20:15

pmsl!!! gay penguins

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marthamoo · 03/05/2005 21:27

How po-faced is JanH's link? We are Penguin Conservationists and we have no sense of humour.

OK, maybe it's not true.

Still prepared to give Twig a good spanking though (I hear she likes that kind of thing)

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JanH · 03/05/2005 21:34

The funniest bit is "Patron: HRH The Duke of York CVO ADC" who I understand was one of those pilots who did it to the poor dears, lol lol lol!

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JanH · 03/05/2005 21:35

(Nearly said poor buggers but stopped myself just in time )

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JanH · 03/05/2005 21:36

ooooops

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JoolsToo · 03/05/2005 21:37

oh, what will the neighbours think?!

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Twiglett · 03/05/2005 21:39

"there feet are only big in front" PMSL

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Twiglett · 03/05/2005 21:39

OMG can't even quote properly

'their feet'

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