# Penguinsaurus Rex!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436 "2007-06-26T04:16:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/21 "2007-06-26T21:09:35Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I’ve already got a man who can cook like a dream; you’ll have to come up with better than that. [/QUOTE] A.) You just don’t know how good my cooking is. B.) If you’ll recall, you’ve seen pictures of what I can “come up with.” 😉 C.) Hi [Opel!](http://www.opel.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/22 "2007-06-26T22:05:01Z")
For some reason, when _The Times_ featured this story today they produced a mock-up of the penguin standing beside Hazel Blears who is just 4 foot 10 inches tall. She has just been elected deputy leader of the Labour Party. What strange political point were they trying to make ? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/23 "2007-06-26T22:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Wait a minute – there are penguins in the Galapagos Islands? There are warm climate penguins? Pineapples don’t grow on trees? [/QUOTE] I saw the article at the National Geographic site, and I didn’t know that until I read it there. Now that the giant penguins have been discovered, that scene from “Scott of the Sahara” isn’t that much of a stretch, is it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/24 "2007-06-26T23:44:40Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] For some reason, when _The Times_ featured this story today they produced a mock-up of the penguin standing beside Hazel Blears who is just 4 foot 10 inches tall. She has just been elected deputy leader of the Labour Party. What strange political point were they trying to make ? [/QUOTE] Obviously they were mocking short people. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/25 "2007-06-27T00:14:57Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Obviously they were mocking short people. [/QUOTE] Hey, it worked for Randy Newman! Oh, wait. . . ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/26 "2007-06-27T00:52:41Z")
[Here](http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/species.html) is a site that shows all penguin species and where they are found. Ah, the wild plains of Africa, where the majestic gazelle is stalked by the African… …penguin? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436/27 "2007-06-27T01:20:17Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] ??? The Swiss Family Robinson were – as the title indicates – Swiss. as was Johann Wyss, who wrote it. (Jules Verne, who wrote _two_ sequels to it, was French.) [/QUOTE] Sorry, I got all discombobulated in my irritation. The family may have been Swiss but my mind just wandered to all of the explorers who did stuff just like this - a lot of whom were brits. Remember, I’m of E. Indian descent so when I think colonizing bastards I \*always \*think of the English. 😉 Sorry, sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penguinsaurus-rex/409436.md?page=1)