A special news alert for Simon

[ElectricBlue]

Because he's a good guy who understands how friendships work around here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science...sil-found-by-schoolkids-new-zealand/100467506

 

[Panty Wrangler]

Wait... which one of you is the extinct giant penguin? I'm confused now...

 

[LAHomedog]

Looks like a Batman character to me.

 

[lovecraft68]

Wait... which one of you is the extinct giant penguin? I'm confused now...

Nether if its extinct silly.

Analysis of thread, someone is butthurt.

 

[SimonDoom]

Appreciated, EB. Interesting.

My attitude is, the more happiness I give to penguins, the better.

Some won't get it.

 

[NotWise]

Appreciated, EB. Interesting.

My attitude is, the more happiness I give to penguins, the better.

Some won't get it.

Just imagine the happiness of a 14-meter tall penguin. You might not want to be nearby.

 

[lovecraft68]

Just imagine the happiness of a 14-meter tall penguin. You might not want to be nearby.

There were giant albino penguins featured in HPL's At The Mountains of Madness, maybe that's what they dug up.

 

[LAHomedog]

Appreciated, EB. Interesting.

My attitude is, the more happiness I give to penguins, the better.

Some won't get it.

<----- Raising hand.

I don't get it!

 

[SamScribble]

Zealandia must have been a pretty interesting place back in the day. By all accounts, there was an eagle (Haast's Eagle - https://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/haasts-eagle ) with a wingspan of up to 3 metres and a weight of almost 18 kg.

In comparison, the UK's largest bird of prey, the white-tailed eagle, weighs in at a bit over 4.5 kg

 

[gunhilltrain]

Just imagine the happiness of a 14-meter tall penguin. You might not want to be nearby.

That converts to over forty-five feet. That is one big mother of a penguin.

For comparison, it could easily look into the windows of the train on the lower level and probably would come close to peering into the one on the upper level. I can't find the exact height of the station.

http://palter.org/~subway/73-04-02/36.jpg

Gun Hill Road station in 1973.

 

[NotWise]

<----- Raising hand.

I don't get it!

I think the use of "penguin" dates the quotation in Oggbashan's signature, where EB refers to people with common reading preferences as "penguins."

 

[Panty Wrangler]

I think the use of "penguin" dates the quotation in Oggbashan's signature, where EB refers to people with common reading preferences as "penguins."

Common as in "common folk" or common as in that set happens to be alike?

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think the use of "penguin" dates the quotation in Oggbashan's signature, where EB refers to people with common reading preferences as "penguins."

I had assumed it was Australian slang not known in this country.

 

[NotWise]

Common as in "common folk" or common as in that set happens to be alike?

Common, like normal.

 

[Panty Wrangler]

Common, like normal.

So, the opposite of special! Personally I think anyone who likes the sorts of things I like must be kind of special, but maybe I've had that backwards all this time.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Common, like normal.

No, more the same as the next guy, when the next guy is exactly the same as you. And lots of them. Thousands of the bastards. Unlike Ogg's puffin, which stands out in its own rock and is unique.

The idea of it is linked to Irony 101: where the guy who comprehends the gag least of all, and attributes all sorts of jealousy and blah blah blah bullshit bullshit to my use of it, proudly points to his essay which presents the world with a fucking formula for writing stories, and then wonders why I take the piss? He doesn't know Australians, because we always do that.

At least Simon is happy to admit he only writes there for the numbers, and is honest about it.

 

[SimonDoom]

At least Simon is happy to admit he only writes there for the numbers, and is honest about it.

Hold on. This is not true. I write for multiple purposes, and with multiple strategies. I concede nothing to anyone. I don't write just for the numbers, and that's insulting and false. Over the course of 4 years and 9 months, and 41 stories published, I've acquired 3427 followers, making me one of the top 100 most followed authors at Literotica, with over six million views. And you know why? It's not because I'm a penguin whore. It's because I'm good at this. What you wrote is obnoxious and false.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hold on. This is not true. I write for multiple purposes, and with multiple strategies. I concede nothing to anyone. I don't write just for the numbers, and that's insulting and false. Over the course of 4 years and 9 months, and 41 stories published, I've acquired 3427 followers, making me one of the top 100 most followed authors at Literotica, with over six million views. And you know why? It's not because I'm a penguin whore. It's because I'm good at this. What you wrote is obnoxious and false.

Quite right, I stand corrected. It's not "only" the numbers (although I think you'll agree audience size (ahem) was a major plank of your start up strategy as a writer), it's also the fact that Literotica allows you to indulge your perverse and demented side, to whit, penis fish, hucow moms, shrinking yellow bikinis etc... For which we are both disturbed and grateful.

Carry on .

 

[Bramblethorn]

Just imagine the happiness of a 14-meter tall penguin. You might not want to be nearby.

1.4 meters, not 14 meters. That would be a hell of a penguin.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think there's a dot between 1 and 4, so it would have been 1.4 meters of excitement. That's just a bit taller than today's emperor penguin, but probably very capable of making a lot of noise.

Simon, don't let the negativity take you down. You should know better than that. Aussies vs whatever; their sense of humor matches the creatures they live next to. For EB, it was all good natured; you know that some others keep trying to poison the atmosphere around here.

You are correct. The typography of the story was such that it was very hard to see the decimal point. That translates to a little under five feet, which is more reasonable for a penguin. At 14 meters, it would have be comparable to the largest dinosaurs.

 

[ElectricBlue]

At 14 meters, it would have be comparable to the largest dinosaurs.

What, a penguin can't have aspirations?

 

[jaF0]

In the 1960s, there was one around 5 1/2 feet.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Burgess_Meredith_The_Penguin_Batman_1966.JPG/266px-Burgess_Meredith_The_Penguin_Batman_1966.JPG

But that was sort of a Joker I guess.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Photo-of-Cesar-Romero-as-The-Joker-and-Burgess-Meredith-as-The-Penguin-from-the-television-program-Batman.-498x640.jpg

 

[gunhilltrain]

What, a penguin can't have aspirations?

I've heard this before, but some penguins have a form of prostitution.

https://www.penguinworld.com/features/prostitution.html

"You dirty birdie!"

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've heard this before, but some penguins have a form of prostitution.

https://www.penguinworld.com/features/prostitution.html

"You dirty birdie!"

Male penguin pairs also try to hatch rocks, if for whatever the male/female ratios go askew.

 

[Panty Wrangler]

I've heard this before, but some penguins have a form of prostitution.

https://www.penguinworld.com/features/prostitution.html

"You dirty birdie!"

Gives me an idea for a penguin prostitution ring where, owing to the obvious similarity in their appearance, a boy penguin first hooks up with and later falls in love with his mom…