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Dear Sirs and Madams,

I have come into the possession of a penguin. It requires a name. I have weighed 'Percival' as an appellation. However, I ask you good persons of ILx to assist me in this undertaking. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Yours,

― g*bbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

you lie!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Chilly Willy. duh.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A penguin it is, well and truly.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

All animals should just be named 'Shit For Brains' from the start since this is eventually what they all get called anyway more often than not.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

If a good penguin, Opus. If not a good penguin, De Vito or Meredith.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

mr. pemberton
gaybar
joe camel
daffodill
henry rollins
international house of pancakes

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you should call him Mr. Penguin. Or Fabelhaft!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Spot

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I am as of yet uncertain of this penguin's goodness

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

call it The Penguin Who Must Not Be Named

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Mario

(after Lemieux, of course)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ooooo yes i like that. Mario Lemieux. parfait.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

This Penguine Coward

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Mitch

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Mitchell

(Or Mitch Mitchell)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Mitch Millar even.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Bacon

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Francis

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 July 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ramon.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongo

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongo's 'Mr Pemberton' is perfect.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Meredith" is perfect. Get in Ned.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

mortimer
gerard
ginger
daisy
edwin
penelope or
bob

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

All good, but none so good as Mr Pemberton.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Percy S. Penguino.

...The Third.

― chris dewolf, Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I second the "Opus" mention. Never before has there been a finer role model for all of penguindom than Opus the Penguin. Or so says I, the Arbiter of Everything. Ha ha ha ha ha.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 24 July 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This is my favourite penguin :

http://www.robust.se/freeside/pingu.gif

― C J (C J), Thursday, 24 July 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Pingu and the Magician, a CD. 'Pingu's Theme' gives George Clinton a run for his money in my opinion.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 24 July 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me of earlier this evening when my band was playing and someone from the crowd shouted out, "Is this like MR. Holland's Opus?" ... HAHA..

Oh. sorry, I'm a bit drunk.

― Mandee, Thursday, 24 July 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

pokey

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 July 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, definately Pokey.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 24 July 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/pokey355_6.gif

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a toy penguin called Penguin. When we got a second one the obvious name had been taken so we called it Rhinoceros, because we didn't have one of those.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I have also just come into possession of a penguin. It also doubles as a waterproof radio and is hangin, somewhat surreally, from the lighting rig in our windowless office. It is currently playing Stereophonics, and is therefore an evil penguin.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt, I strongly advise that you immediately and with much gusto stove this plastic pengiun's head in with a sledge hammer.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

But its so cute, like a kitten that keeps shitting on your lap.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oswald Cobblepot.

― gobemouche, Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tuxedo

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

When Penguins Attack(420kb animated gif)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Garçon!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Lucretia, my reflection.

What's the penguin in "Death and the Penguin" called. Misha? Miska?

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly one of those penguins had been photoshopped in. I want my £5 back.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i like tom's idea. when we had a cat in college, we just called it "cat." (well, the first cat we had -- the second one we called "krishna.") if i get a dog, i'll just call it "dog."

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Tad there are perils to this approach. We then did get a rhinoceros.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

considering my experience with pet cats, i should just call my next one "hungry hungry hippo" cause every cat i've owned eats like (and gets as fat as) a hippo.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i know a pengiun named otis. it works.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 24 July 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do you all know so many penguins? I'm jealous of your penguin experience.

Anyway you should name it Badtz Maru.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hulko

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

WAtch out! He's evil! What with those trousers and everything...

http://www.vadim.com/WallaceGromit/wg_penguin.jpg

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

first cats, now penguins ... geeze sarah, you practically have a zoo!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Elzevir

― Cathy, Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Oreo (n.b. do not name it Oreo)

― Aaron A., Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It should be named P-P-P-Pickupa. (This may not work for non-UK readers.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 July 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Vajie.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Littlewoods
Zoltan
Raducioiu
Kelvin
Eastwood
Nixon
Vlaovic
Slattery
Mumbles
Nefertiti

are some you could use. But might not want to. Or maybe you might. I've been listening to song-poems today. It was fun.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Vulvis

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ironic Moustache.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, Ally wins.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

How did I not find this thread earlier? Penguins are my favorite animal. Wasn't there a Simpsons episode where the family acquires a penguin but it becomes a nuisance? Or was that a lobster?

Anyway you should call the Penguin "Glasto."

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

why has no-one noted that the animated gif i linked to is the funniest thing on ILX since the Ninja Turtle porn???

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Just admit that the penguin should be called Mr Pemberton already.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Although the goodness of this penguin remains to be determined by doctors learned in the ways of the natural world, civilized persons must presume that well-being inheres in all creaturs, even those raised in frozen wilderness.

As such and as yet, I must admit a certain fondness for names such as these...

Mortimer
Mr. Penguin
Mario
Opus
Edwin
International House of Pancakes
Henry Rollins

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 August 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Henry Rollins totally says "penguin" to me. Same neckline.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 21 August 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

You people are whacko!! It should be called Penpen, The Destroyer of Smelly Fish!

― Bek, Saturday, 23 April 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

XSOY-AVENGERX

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 23 April 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Munsing

― Nemo (JND), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Percival T. "Tux" Cummerbund

― Nemo (JND), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Taggart.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Slick"

― Nemo (JND), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a little penguino inside a penlight that broke and I set him free and named him Salvatore because I was listening to too much Liquid Liquid at the time.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Perigrine

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Flightless? Kiwi? Cassowary? Secretary?

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slideshow/4402056/detail.html?qs=;s=1;w=320

here we see dignified penguins encountering airport security:

http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0421/4402061.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://carcino.gen.nz/images/image.php/05d3a4f2/penguin_slap.gif

Slappy. Or Smack.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd imagine gabbneb has already named him by now - but I would quite like him to share some stories of how life with a penguin has felt like these past few years, and what name he eventually settled on.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 23 April 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

With such a well dressed animal it has to be called something formal like "Lambert Q. Flagstaff"

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Saturday, 23 April 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

HAS THAT PENGUIN BEEN SENDING ME SPAM??

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 23 April 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Library_files/P1000001.jpg

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan Penguinini

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

you know how there are some animals people seem to think are aamazing even though they're kind of boring? like giant pandas and koalas?

penguins are one of those animals that i totally DO understand what the fuss is about.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

best part of Batman Returns were those penguins with rocket backpacks. A+++

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

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