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#88104 11/30/02 11:19 PM
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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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As in prolate spheroid.


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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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