#88094
11/30/2002 1:47 AM
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Is there an adjective for "penguin"? Since they belong to the family Spheniscidae, I coined "spheniscid" for an adjective. If there isn't already an adjectival form of penguin, would this be a reasonable term?
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#88095
11/30/2002 1:51 AM
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Never mind. It turns out I didn't invent a new word, but at least I guessed right.
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#88096
11/30/2002 8:37 PM
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Penguid rolls off the toungue more satisfyingly though - it's like languid, only... livelier and err... well, more penguid. 
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#88097
11/30/2002 9:10 PM
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Interesting that "spheno-" refers to objects shaped like a wedge. I don't quite see penguins as
being shaped like wedges.
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#88098
11/30/2002 10:17 PM
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I see penguins as being wedge-shaped.
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#88099
11/30/2002 10:26 PM
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maybe more of a cone, but definitely bigger at the bottom than at the top! 
formerly known as etaoin...
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#88100
11/30/2002 10:27 PM
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would a penguin who takes dictation be a sphenographer?
formerly known as etaoin...
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#88102
11/30/2002 10:46 PM
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Stick they bills underneath a tire--they make great chocks to stop a tractor trailer.
Et: Loved your sphenographer comment!
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#88103
11/30/2002 11:15 PM
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Maybe it's the way they kinda toboggan down hills.
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#88104
11/30/2002 11:19 PM
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In reply to:
They look like streamlined elongated footballs to me.
X-Thread Ref. to an old Hogwash:
prolate
It pays to play Hogwash!
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#88105
11/30/2002 11:28 PM
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#88106
12/02/2002 9:22 AM
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I see penguins as being wedge-shaped.
Surely penguins were around before wedges were invented? If that is so, then it is wedges that are penguin shaped (penguoid?).
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#88107
12/02/2002 12:08 PM
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Is there an adjective for "penguin"?It depends on whom you want to apply it to, and for what reason
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#88108
12/02/2002 12:35 PM
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Surely penguins were around before wedges were invented?
So did penguinkind invent the wedge in its own image?
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#88109
12/02/2002 12:43 PM
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The penguin is rife with wedges: its beak, its wings, its tail, its feet, its body. Wedges all. Wedgeville. That's what a penguin is. Wedgeville.
And to think orchestral musicians are sometimes called penguins.
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#88110
12/02/2002 1:38 PM
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orchestral musicians are sometimes called penguins
As are nuns.
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#88111
12/06/2002 9:14 AM
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Wedges weren't invented until much later, when there was underwear. Oh. Wedges, not wedgies. Er, never mind.
TEd
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#88112
12/06/2002 4:57 PM
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In first year physics, one learns about the basic mechanical devices. Wedges are an extension
of the inclined plane. And penguins look as though they were wearing tuxedos.
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#88113
12/06/2002 5:11 PM
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penguins look as though they were wearing tuxedos
What makes you think they're not?
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#88114
12/06/2002 5:15 PM
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What makes you think they're not?
No cummerbund.
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#88115
12/06/2002 6:21 PM
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The penguins' tuxedos got no fly to cummer unbund.
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#88116
12/07/2002 1:23 AM
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So in addition to protozoans there's apparently no fly zoans. But there's a Bush behind every no fly zoan.
TEd
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#88117
12/09/2002 7:33 AM
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Thanks for the cool word, Ata. Now that I've installed Linux, I can tell everybody I'm spheniscating.
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