# Remember the joke about the penguin who blew a seal....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754 "2008-05-02T14:58:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/21 "2008-05-02T19:00:50Z")
The penguin was totally asking for it. Dressed up all formal and all. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/22 "2008-05-02T19:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] From the link: _“The South African-based scientists who witnessed the incident say it is the **most unusual case of mammal mating behaviour yet known**.”_ So they don’t have the internet in South Africa? [/QUOTE] They’re really sheltered there it seems > [@](#): > > But this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate, such as a bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian. unless humans don’t count as mammals anymore, I’m sure I’ve seen plenty of news stories that disprove that. Anything that walks, slithers, swims, or crawls, somewhere, somewhen, a pervert has had his/her way. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/23 "2008-05-02T19:26:35Z")
\ “There is a mysterious ritual that dates back thousands of years. No living creature has survived it. Except … the penguin. They have wings, but cannot fly. They are birds, that think they are fish. And every year, they embark on a nearly impossible journey to find a mate. For twenty days and twenty nights, the Emperor Penguin will march to a place so extreme, it supports no other life. Except these seals. … In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a … er … finds a … um … hey, guys? Is that supposed to be … Oh my God! Uh, okay … uh, This is the incredible true story of a family’s journey to bring life into the OH HOLY FUCK.” \ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/24 "2008-05-02T19:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] \ [/QUOTE] Holy shit that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/25 "2008-05-02T20:53:02Z")
All celebrities eventually get caught being freaky. Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, and now one of the penguins from that documentary. What a freak. And Morgan Freeman is classic ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/26 "2008-05-02T21:12:25Z")
I love the serious, sober tone of the article when you just know that those scientists must have been laughing their asses off when they saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/27 "2008-05-02T21:14:48Z")
This is nothing, I’ve seen a seal screwing a [supermodel](http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2498646.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1934A2752006EF5F0EDB2B23108074E44A65A5397277B4DC33E) before… ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/28 "2008-05-02T21:24:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Chinstrap penguins occasionally indulge in homosexual behaviour, The jokes, they write themselves, don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/29 "2008-05-02T22:43:56Z")
can’t … breathe ! ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/30 "2008-05-03T00:12:44Z")
[QUOTE=One And Only Wanderers] unless humans don’t count as mammals anymore, I’m sure I’ve seen plenty of news stories that disprove that. Anything that walks, slithers, swims, or crawls, somewhere, somewhen, a pervert has had his/her way. [/QUOTE] Whatever happened to the thread about the guy screwing the deer? Is he still going to dances stag? Clearly, the seal had flipped for her. The French word for seal is “phoque,” which, you guessed it, is pronounced “fuck.” «Hey, baby, wanna phoque?" ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/31 "2008-05-03T01:13:15Z")
In that second picture, it looked like the penguin decided to join in the effort…a 69 classic. Wouldn’t a beak… you know …hurt? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/32 "2008-05-03T01:25:58Z")
My thanks to everyone for sending me off for the weekend with a smile on my face. 🙂 Have a great one everybody! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/33 "2008-05-03T01:52:13Z")
I wonder if they’ll get an Ig Nobel Prize like the guy who discovered [duck rape did.](http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1432991,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/34 "2008-05-03T04:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > The researchers speculate that the male seal was too young to win access to female seals, and in a state of sexual excitement, looked elsewhere. Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/35 "2008-05-14T16:36:17Z")
[QUOTE=Capcha] In that second picture, it looked like the penguin decided to join in the effort…a 69 classic. Wouldn’t a beak… you know …hurt? :eek: [/QUOTE] Yeah, and then the recipient would have to go to a vet. Or, maybe, a mechanic…having suffered a blown seal. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/36 "2008-05-14T17:08:32Z")
[QUOTE=Capcha] In that second picture, it looked like the penguin decided to join in the effort…a 69 classic. [/QUOTE] As cold as it is there, wouldn’t that be a “minus 69”? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/37 "2008-05-14T17:21:22Z")
I just paid to renew my subscription. I am immediately reminded of why this board is worth my time. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754/38 "2008-05-14T17:31:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Now if you put this in the back seat of '72 Chevelle you get a pretty clear idea of my first time. [/QUOTE] Were you the one who was 220 lbs or the one who was 33 lbs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-joke-about-the-penguin-who-blew-a-seal/447754.md?page=1)