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Stalean 
"Back...OMG"
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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 Posted - 11/12/2006 : 11:01:43
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Originally posted by StaLean
Another item for your collection, Se�n.
Wow! Penguin checks! But... errmmmm.... scuse my ignorance, but how does that work? Do you get those made up with your bank details and account number and it becomes a real check to use with your account? If so, I've never heard of that being done.  All checks I've ever used have been issued by my bank and are very boring, i.e., no penguins! 
Excellent idea though.  |
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Stalean
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 21:50:10
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by StaLean
Another item for your collection, Se�n.
Wow! Penguin checks! But... errmmmm.... scuse my ignorance, but how does that work? Do you get those made up with your bank details and account number and it becomes a real check to use with your account? If so, I've never heard of that being done. All checks I've ever used have been issued by my bank and are very boring, i.e., no penguins!
Excellent idea though.
Instructions are given when ordering, but I have usually sent an existing cancelled check from my banking institution. The checks are sent in 7 to 10 days after receipt, I believe. |
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TitanPa 
"Here four more"
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Posted - 11/13/2006 : 19:37:58
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Its becoming so bad we will have movies that make fun of Penguins.
Farce of the Penguins
A comedy about the 'March of the Penguins'
And now may I ask......BOB SAGET????????? and its voiced??? |
Edited by - TitanPa on 11/13/2006 19:38:40 |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/24/2006 : 21:12:22
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Now at the BBC.
I didn't go looking for this one either. |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 11/27/2006 : 17:54:50
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by StaLean
Another item for your collection, Se�n.
Wow! Penguin checks! But... errmmmm.... scuse my ignorance, but how does that work? Do you get those made up with your bank details and account number and it becomes a real check to use with your account? If so, I've never heard of that being done. All checks I've ever used have been issued by my bank and are very boring, i.e., no penguins!
Excellent idea though.
Yep. It's cool. I've had Scooby Doo checks for awhile now and now I'm switching to I Love Lucy. Because, hey, who doesn't love Lucy?
EM :) |
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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 11/27/2006 : 18:44:45
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/27/2006 : 19:25:37
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Originally posted by Se�n
Now at the BBC.
In the B.B.C. programme, you'll be glad to know that something occurred that I have only seen once before in a very large amount of natural history television - they intervened. A chick (of the fat, hanging-around-in-a-creche age) had fallen in a hole and would never have been able to get out alone, so they lifted it out. The only other occasion was many years ago - a flamingo chick was abandoned in the middle of a salt lake because of a concrete-hard ring of dried salt/mud around its leg. All the other chicks had set off some time before on the amazing 50-mile trek to beyond the salt pan. Once released, it set off - and caught the others up. The odd thing was that, despite knowing beforehand that it would be their policy not to help, I remember thinking that surely they could break that rule that time, and lo and behold they did. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/27/2006 : 23:41:27
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Se�n
Now at the BBC.
In the B.B.C. programme, you'll be glad to know that something occurred that I have only seen once before in a very large amount of natural history television - they intervened.
That non-interference policy never made much sense to me. Sure, I can understand why you don't interfere when an animal is attacking another, it's got to eat etc. But if something has got stuck in a hole then the 'normal' thing to do would be to lift it out. I think any wildlife documentary maker would struggle to justify leaving an animal slowly starving to death while they eat their lunch. They can't justify it, so they rescue it. |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 11/28/2006 : 00:54:40
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| I used to watch Big Cat Diary and they showed a lion cub that got separated from its mother because she took the kids hunting and he got distracted by a lizard and lost track of her, my impression if I recall this correctly was that mom never found the little guy. It would have been easy enough for them to bring him to her, but I don't think they did. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/28/2006 : 04:56:02
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Originally posted by Turrell
I used to watch Big Cat Diary and they showed a lion cub that got separated from its mother because she took the kids hunting and he got distracted by a lizard and lost track of her, my impression if I recall this correctly was that mom never found the little guy. It would have been easy enough for them to bring him to her, but I don't think they did.
Wrong and right.  The cub did get lost, and was out in the open and totally vulnerable from predators (jackals, hunting dogs etc). They knew where the mother was (about 2km away) and did have a policy of non-interference, which they stuck to. But, it did have a happy ending, mum finally found her cub and everyone lived happily ever after. 
I think non-interference made more sense there though, as they were filming the lives of big cats, and were filming the mother and her cub (seperately) all the way through this incident, so were also filming the joyous reunion when it happened. Obviously if they had interfered they couldn't have filmed the natural reunion. Likewise, if destiny was for the cub to be eaten by a jackal then they would have filmed that too. I don't think it's quite the same as watching something starve to death trapped in a hole simply because it can't get out, although some would argue there's no fundamental difference.
Perhaps the difference is that in one case it's guaranteed slow death because of a dumb mistake that is fixable in 2 seconds by a human, in the other case it's exposure to greater risk that may only be temporary. |
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/28/2006 : 11:43:34
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| I agree that there is a distinction between these cases. The ability to not get lost is important for lions, and thus survival of the fittest was being applied. The ability to not fall into small holes is not so important for penguins - adult ones would be able to get out of that size hole, and I don't think this chick is really more likely than others to fall into a big hole as an adult. This applies even more to the flamingo case since I don't think the chick or its parents can have done anything to cause that. In the penguin programme, they gave the reason that fear of humans was not necessary for them, which applies less to flamigoes, but I don't see that as the main justification. I agree that the non-interference thing should not be an fixed rule - the same goes for journalists reporting on war or other misery. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/28/2006 : 21:59:20
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Yep, good points.
Also, perhaps capturing a wild lion cub and transporting it by vehicle back to it's mother may have been a traumatic event for the cub and not beneficial to it. Likewise, would the mother be better off having found her own cub (from the perspective of learning) than having it delivered to her by humans in a vehicle? I suspect so. |
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 11/28/2006 : 22:27:58
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Se�n
Now at the BBC.
In the B.B.C. programme, you'll be glad to know that something occurred that I have only seen once before in a very large amount of natural history television - they intervened. A chick (of the fat, hanging-around-in-a-creche age) had fallen in a hole and would never have been able to get out alone, so they lifted it out. The only other occasion was many years ago - a flamingo chick was abandoned in the middle of a salt lake because of a concrete-hard ring of dried salt/mud around its leg. All the other chicks had set off some time before on the amazing 50-mile trek to beyond the salt pan.
I once saw on the bbc a turtle that had gone down a hole and turned over and that was saved, personally I have no idea how they can not save the animals if it is within their power to do so - seems so cruel to let an animal die if you could save it.
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 12/04/2006 : 06:47:23
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| I was just commenting to someone today that it seems penguins are everywhere now. I may be noticing it more now though because for about a year now, my son has had a baby penguin for an imaginary friend. He's a very nice little guy, always buckling his seatbelt and never forgetting his backpack. :) He also thinks that the word 'opinion' is penguin. :) |
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Penguin population explosion.
