Doorbell rings.
Next door wonders if we have a 13amp fuse to 'lend'.
Also comments I shouldn't be wearing a jumper with a penguin on it as 'penguins are dodgy animals'
Sadly we have no spare fuses readily to hand.
MChurch Penguins aren`t
dodgy. Humans are dodgy.
Squireen Penguins are birds!
Drummerman:
I think that you should quiz your neighbour as to why penguins are
"dodgy".
We should be told. OK, villain in Batman and Wallace &
Grommit, but hero for Linux.
Bentonbag:-
McChurch
- You're telling me.
Living things are either plants or animals.
If you are not a plant then you are an
animal".
I know some pedant (like Gobiron)
is going to say 'what about fungi or viruses' but we were only 11 and he was
starting from simple basics. But I get
your point.
Drummerman
- I have enough problems with my own life without delving into the first known
case of penguinophobia in the Northern Hemisphere. I was affronted because I particularly like that jumper; however there is no emoticon for affronted either.
I'm told it was 'an
unfortunate incident with someone who had a Pingu themed ringtone on their
mobile'; the information was offered voluntarily and I elected to delve no
further.
Gobiron Unable to defend
myself against a charge of pedantry, however, the brand of pedantry might be
relevant. I definitely have a problem with "penguinophobia". Sure -
the ancient Greeks presumably didn't have a word for a penguin. Maybe modern
Greek has one? I don't know. Do we need the 'o'? Can you construct something like Linuxphobia?
Bentonbag The ancient Greeks
didn't have a word for Islam but that doesn't stop the media using the term
Islamophobia.
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