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Flying penguins found by BBC programme
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^
| 01/04/2008
| Neil Midgley
Posted on 03/31/2008 6:14:54 PM PDT by relictele
The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.
Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.
The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "We'd been watching the penguins and filming them for days, without a hint of what was to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Pets/Animals; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aprilfool; aprilfools; fakefakefakefake; godsgravesglyphs; montypython; penguins
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Love the Telegraph - they aren't afraid of a little April Fool's joke.
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:14:55 PM PDT
by
relictele
To: relictele
Oh no, it has already begun.
I may as well read scrappleface instead of news for the next day and a half.
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:25:02 PM PDT
by
dan1123
(If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
To: relictele; shhrubbery!; Watery Tart
The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "There's a penguin on the telly."
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:31:30 PM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(No, no, no, I didn't mean what's on the television set, I meant what programme.)
To: relictele
penguins flying What's their wing-speed velocity?
To: Charles Henrickson
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:34:36 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: relictele
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:38:28 PM PDT
by
matt1234
To: relictele
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:42:41 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
(WWOD? (What Would Obama Do?))
To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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posted on
03/31/2008 6:55:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:03:36 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
To: relictele
They don’t fly so much as plummet....
To: relictele
The prnguin farted and Gore lit it when the reporter wasn’t looking and a penguin rocket was born.
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:07:55 PM PDT
by
dalereed
(both)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:13:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: SunkenCiv
That was freaking sHilliary-us. nice post.
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:28:27 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
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posted on
03/31/2008 7:41:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: SunkenCiv
pigs do it too...
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posted on
03/31/2008 8:08:20 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(a fair dinkum aussie)
To: relictele; MotleyGirl70
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posted on
03/31/2008 9:29:22 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"—Ronald Reagan)
To: SunkenCiv; holdonnow
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posted on
03/31/2008 10:32:12 PM PDT
by
hattend
(We're running out of topsoil so "POOP IT UP!" - Rush Limbaugh, 23 Jan 2008)
To: relictele
“As God is my witness, I thought penguins could fly.”
~Arthur Carlson, WKRP CEO
After the April 1st, 2008 “Penguin Drop Promotion”
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posted on
04/01/2008 12:38:02 AM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(Texas: "We close at five.")
To: relictele
Of course they can...
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posted on
04/01/2008 1:24:08 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s why penguins are extinct in the Northern hemisphere. Redneck Neanderthals thought they were good to eat and clubbed them all.
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posted on
04/01/2008 3:57:59 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Shallow narcissistic meaningless old perv!)
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