North Pole fables

Voice of the Times ^ | 4 May 08 | The Editors

[GATOR NAVY]

ON THE NBC nightly news there was a heart-throb report of an attractive British teen-ager who had skied across the North Pole with her father to demonstrate how the Arctic ice pack is receding in the face of global warming. Oh, horror. Oh, how terrible.

The pictures were beautiful: Her pretty face, her gentle smile, her soft voice, her snow-crusted parka, the blue skies, the brilliant white ice, the cascading chunks of ice calving from glaciers, the two penguins standing on an ice flow.

Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?

Not that we ever heard of.

So much for science, as reported by NBC News.

[USMA '71]

Personally, I would have enjoyed the clip a lot more if the young lady had a chance to “give a polar bear a hug” as she said after learning how to shoot a rifle. That would surely have made for some “documentary” quality film.

[teacherwoes]

We're just here for the dance

[WarEagle]

Maybe she’s auditioning to replace Grizzly Man!

[davisfh]

"Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?"

Truth is relative.

[ConservativeMind]

Now that is pretty funny!

NBC just took their footage and ran with it, never doubting the source?

[MIT-Elephant]

No worry. THey’ll just label this “fake but accurate” and say it reflects the truth even if it isn’t the actual truth. Assistant producer: Rigoberta Menchu.

[Young Werther]

Is that a window of opportunity Richard?

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOLOL! Thanks for the ping!

[tomkat]

[xone]

Now there’s a Penguin I could get behind.

[irishtenor]

Ha!

[doug from upland]

I think most FReeper males would be southern conference bound.

[dead]

Actual photo from my journey to the lowland rainforests of Nepal, where the penguins have all been killed for their ivory tusks:

[GATOR NAVY]

where the penguins have all been killed for their ivory tusks

OMG! Where can I send my hard earned cash to help stop this holocaust?

[Swordmaker]

Are those Hillary’s hugely Hippos in the lower right corner?

[dr_lew]

“Very well! suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal
ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour,
and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be
a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd,
but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams’ of war,
whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.
Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over
and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced;
which is just within the bounds of possibility.”

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[PA Engineer]

Never heard of it. ;-)

[paristwelve]

I’ve had people call me an idiot, and get very indignant after I informed them that there aren’t penguins at the North Pole. One person told me that they had seen penguins there, in Movies!! LoL

[saganite]

The World Turned Upside Down.