penguin notes
Jan. 22nd, 2007 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
courtesy of mrcairo: did you know that it was Penguin Awareness Day two days ago? i bet you didn't! and, in case you missed it and somehow managed to not spend the day in a tux wearing funny plumage and doing little penguin-dances, April 25th is World Penguin Day.
and in other news, the cheese crackers in the Berkeley Bowl bulk-food section come in many fascinating marine-related shapes: frogs, crabs, dolphins (or perhaps porpoises), starfish, little blobby things that might be turtles, little blobby things that might be shells, and of course...penguins!
penguins are the new monkeys.
and in other news, the cheese crackers in the Berkeley Bowl bulk-food section come in many fascinating marine-related shapes: frogs, crabs, dolphins (or perhaps porpoises), starfish, little blobby things that might be turtles, little blobby things that might be shells, and of course...penguins!
penguins are the new monkeys.
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Date: 2007-01-22 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-22 08:08 pm (UTC)*grin*
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Date: 2007-01-22 08:42 pm (UTC)nacht_musik: "bass hippo"
me: Yep, bass hippo. But then, are there really tenor hippos out there?
nacht_musik: Yeah, they're most commonly played by children who are learning to play the hippo at a particularly early age. Many young children just don't have the handspan to play a full-sized hippo; the 1/3-sized tenor hippo (confusingly referred to as a "2 2/3' hippo" for historical reasons pertaining to the nomenclature traditionally used when constructing ranks of hippos for use in a pipe organ) sounds an octave and a fifth above the standard (bass) hippo, but much of the technique involved can be readily transferred to the standard hippo when the student is ready for the larger instrument.
me: ... I love you.
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Date: 2007-01-22 11:22 pm (UTC)also: apparently i was almost on time with my penguin post! who knew?
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Date: 2007-01-24 07:05 pm (UTC)i noticed, i just didn't manage to put up a post about the penguin holiday in time. :)
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Date: 2007-01-23 03:08 am (UTC)Also, Wikipedia tells me that "David Bowie's original name was David (Robert) Jones: he changed his name to avoid confusion with the then-more famous Davy Jones." Huh. I don't think ChangesJones would have flown.
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Date: 2007-01-23 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-24 07:04 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCaRM2YCuo
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Date: 2007-01-25 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-26 12:34 am (UTC)skepticism
Date: 2007-01-22 09:47 pm (UTC)I'll believe that when I see a pirate with a penguin on his shoulder.
Re: skepticism
Date: 2007-01-26 01:47 am (UTC)...clearly i need more practice with photoshop, but there you go. see those beady little eyes? that's a dangerous penguin, there.