Re: Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica

On 2008-03-27 08:42:55 -0700, "Mike Schilling" 
<mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> DougL wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 10:22 am, Kurt Busiek <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On 2008-03-27 08:08:45 -0700, Jonathan Schattke <wiz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> said:
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 26, 8:11 pm, "Eric S. Harris" <eric_harris...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Penquins aren't real. They were invented by the Walt Disney
>>>>> company for the movie "Mary Poppins".
>>> 
>>>> I have seen a penguin, in real life. I suppose, given enough
>>>> determination I could touch one.
>>> 
>>> They're audio-animatronic. Leftovers from the ad campaign. The
>>> Disney
>>> people keep up the illusion because they're still in development on
>>> a
>>> sequel.
>> 
>> Makes sense to me. People who believe in these alleged flightless
>> birds can't even keep their story straight. Allegedly they live at
>> the
>> south pole yet often when I see them in commercials on TV they are
>> accompanied by Polar Bears who (A) live on the other side of the
>> world
>> and (B) are predators who would almost certainly cheerfully eat any
>> such thing if they shared an enviroment.
>> 
>> For that matter the only time I've ever seen so called "Penguins" in
>> the wild was in the galapogos islands. And if penguins WERE real and
>> ACTUALLY needed ice sheets to survive what would they be doing at
>> the
>> equator? Animatronics makes much more sense.
> 
> Not originally Disney, though.  They began as the logo for a tux
> rental shop, from whom Walt licensed the rights.

The results of the lawsuit over that were sealed, mister.

There's no legally-admissible evidence that Disney didn't make them up, 
so there!

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