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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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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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Is there an adjective for "penguin"?It depends on whom you want to apply it to, and for what reason
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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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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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orchestral musicians are sometimes called penguins
As are nuns.
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Wedges weren't invented until much later, when there was underwear. Oh. Wedges, not wedgies. Er, never mind.
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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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penguins look as though they were wearing tuxedos
What makes you think they're not?
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