Liberty:

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I love that one, raytri. Got any idea what thread it came from?

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Not sure that's true . . . my seven year old informed me that penguins are only on the south pole, which is "land surrounded by water," as opposed to the north pole, which is "water surrounded by land." There only the more hardy--and deadly--polar bears can survive. But the polar bears *aren't* at the south pole where the penguins have a safe haven and land to survive on.

Okay, maybe I'm learning a little too much from my first grader . . .

Christopher
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That just means God didn't want to pile on.... It's more interesting when the penguins have a sporting chance.

But honestly.... every fall the penguins leave the water and walk 70 miles inland to breed. Nobody eats. The only shelter against the Antarctic winter is the huddled mass of their own bodies. Once the babies are born -- weeks later, with no food of any kind in the meantime -- the eggs must be carefully transferred from the mother to the feet of the father. Any mistake, the egg dies. Then the weakened mothers walk back to feed. Any mother who doesn't survive either the trek or the leopard seals, her baby dies. Once the mothers return, the dads -- who by now haven't eaten for a very long time -- get to go eat. Those that survive the trip, that is.

Finally, the parents abandon the babies, who mope around for a few days before venturing into the water to learn how to hunt and, hopefully, avoid becoming seal or orca food.

An early penguin must have pooped on God's toe or something.

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Not all penguins. The ones God likes got to live in Australia and the Galopagos Islands. Apparently they must have found some artifact or stolen the nail intended for Jesus' spleen or something like that in order to earn God's forgiveness for "original soiling".

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Ah, yes.... the lost 13th tribe of waterfowl....

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But I think the mythological monster is cooler


SS - "I disagree. There is nothing cooler than a Man-rabbit."

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