I've voted with the noise I think a penguin does make, not the noise you have to use to impersonate a penguin (cf. the Simpson's episode where Homer learns that cows don't look like cows on film, and so painted horses are used instead. And cats are used for horses).
I'm thinking more along the lines that everybody knows that Yetis or Sasquatches go "Waaoarrogh!". Because that's the sort of noise they ought to make.
But in reality, if you caught one and asked, it'd probably make some dismally embarassing noise instead, like "meep!" (well, wouldn't you, if you'd be caught by a Yeti hunter?)
Similarly, I suspect that there's a descrepancy between the platonic ideal of a penguin, and a real penguin.
And most penguins on the internet seem go go "waargh - splat" anyway. Which I don't think was the answer you were looking for either.
Because that's the sort of noise they ought to make.
Exactly.
Like everyone knows that kangaroo go boinnnnng when they jump. Stands to reason. But the noise gets edited out of all wildlife documentaries in an attempt to make Antipodean wildlife seem vaguely credible.
Oh dear, oh dear. Acquire yourself At The Drop Of A Hat and At The Drop Of Another Hat immediately, they're much superior to the Bestiary. Make sure you get the ones with the F&S commentary in between the songs.
My copies are not in fact mine, they're my parents', and they're on vinyl and in Darlington, so I can't offer to lend.
Yes but i've heard what noises penguins make - from genuine penguins. It is just a little hard to transcribe into English. And would also suffer from the being the noise a penguin actually makes as well.
Nonsense! A puffin is an ordinary flying seabird with an ostentatious beak. Penguins, being elegantly flightless, are a radically different shape. The only similarities are that black and white (though some penguin species are blue-grey and white) figure heavily in both colour schemes and that the names share four letters. I point my beak at you, you silly person.
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And I've got no bloody idea!
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:)
One point to you, sir.
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Realistic fake penguins should go "Sqwark".
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But in reality, if you caught one and asked, it'd probably make some dismally embarassing noise instead, like "meep!" (well, wouldn't you, if you'd be caught by a Yeti hunter?)
Similarly, I suspect that there's a descrepancy between the platonic ideal of a penguin, and a real penguin.
And most penguins on the internet seem go go "waargh - splat" anyway. Which I don't think was the answer you were looking for either.
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Exactly.
Like everyone knows that kangaroo go boinnnnng when they jump. Stands to reason. But the noise gets edited out of all wildlife documentaries in an attempt to make Antipodean wildlife seem vaguely credible.
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html
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My copies are not in fact mine, they're my parents', and they're on vinyl and in Darlington, so I can't offer to lend.
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Ah, I lie: it's on At The Drop Of A Hat. I missed it because I was expecting it to be called The Kokoraki.
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All the way through, at one sitting (each). None of that shuffle shit.
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(Oi, exactly how many Igors do you want, anyway?)
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(Watching pingu)
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So there you go.
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I'm not so keen on knowing what noise a penguine makes. I want to know what noise people think a penguin makes :)
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This is also part of the challenge :)
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Very soon you will be in No Doubt that it is a Bad Thing.
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