And there I was splendid in my penguin suit

[venta]

[Poll #347492]

Comments

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

you'd never be to scared to show your bill.

And I've got no bloody idea!

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

Be sure to wax the flippers regularly to keep them shiny!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Good lord, I hope I never meet one of Blackmetalbaz's penguins :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

you'd never be to scared to show your bill.

:)

One point to you, sir.

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

Of course, my answer could be wrong. If you only drop a penguin from a short height, it makes a kind of thudding noise...

[wimble.livejournal.com]

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).

Realistic fake penguins should go "Sqwark".

[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

I'll bet that they make different noises in different laguages as well.
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

I arrived at my answer after much careful study.

(Watching pingu)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is that the same as everyone knowing that cows go "moo", even though the noise a real cow makes is more like "muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh" ?

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

http://www.junglewalk.com/sound/Penguin-sounds.asp

So there you go.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

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.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thank you. But...

I'm not so keen on knowing what noise a penguine makes. I want to know what noise people think a penguin makes :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

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.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oooh, we know a song about that (http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/tried_kokoraki.html) :)

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

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.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It is just a little hard to transcribe into English.

This is also part of the challenge :)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Damn. I've got the Bestiary of Flanders & Swann. It's not in there. I shall have to berate nerenek.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Outstanding ! Those emperor penguins crashed firefox !

[venta.livejournal.com]

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.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oh. I've (or rather narenek has) both At the Drops. It doesn't look to be on either of them, either.

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.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You have access to both ? Good. Now listen to them.

All the way through, at one sitting (each). None of that shuffle shit.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Yeth, mithreth.


(Oi, exactly how many Igors do you want, anyway?)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

A penguin looks basically like a puffin but bigger, so the noise it makes is probably Blu.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. Now I'm going to be seeing the puffins-live-in-holes song to myself for the rest of the day :(

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

You're acting like that's a bad thing.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I shall sing it out loud.
Very soon you will be in No Doubt that it is a Bad Thing.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Our cow-orkers will crack before I do.

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

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.