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2016-12-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Steve White 2016-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 No penguins at the North Pole!
What do I win?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-02 00:07|| 2016-12-02 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 The penguin's out of scale on that camouflaged aircraft carrier?

Posted by KBK 2016-12-02 02:44|| 2016-12-02 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 also there is no sun on the north pole or anywhere near there on thnkgvg

Posted by lord garth 2016-12-02 03:59|| 2016-12-02 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The Daily Kos has not idea what's 'normal'.

Posted by Bobby 2016-12-02 07:56|| 2016-12-02 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Same people who use images of Soviet era destroyers to represent the US Navy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-02 08:00|| 2016-12-02 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone know why there are no NP Penguins?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-02 12:10|| 2016-12-02 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, families playing "the traditional Turkey Bowl game." A nice touch of familiarity, there. Too bad they're not referring to Uncle Jack kicking his college-student-lefty nephew's backside all over the dining room.

Posted by Pappy 2016-12-02 12:32|| 2016-12-02 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 150 ft penguin

Posted by 746 2016-12-02 13:44|| 2016-12-02 13:44|| Front Page Top

#9 "Anyone know why there are no NP Penguins?"

I assume it is because they developed in the south and its a long way full of sharks and other nasties that would happily done on a flightless bird unable to escape onto an ice flow. I also assume any that made it to the North Pole didn't fair well against the Polar Bears that reside there.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-02 13:59|| 2016-12-02 13:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Note that there are no polar bears down south either.

That might have a relation.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-02 16:34|| 2016-12-02 16:34|| Front Page Top

#11 "Anyone know why there are no NP Penguins?"

Penguins occur throughout the SH, even in warmer locations. There are some on an island off Perth. And there penguins on the Galapagos Islands just north of the equator.

They need predator free islands to breed, and the lack of such islands in the eastern Pacific is/was probably the barrier that kept them from getting any further north.

Posted by phil_b 2016-12-02 16:50|| 2016-12-02 16:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Are there puffins around the South Pole?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-12-02 21:31|| 2016-12-02 21:31|| Front Page Top

#13 What else are you gonna do with 9 months of winter Rob?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-02 23:44|| 2016-12-02 23:44|| Front Page Top

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