Sad for them
Posted by TFG on 20th July 2008
Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil - Yahoo! News
“Everything is seemingly spinning out of control” territory.
My idiot mind goes straight into airplane serial killer genre novel territory when I read that headline, like there was some kind of mass penguin grave uncovered by the Rio coppers and they have to bring in any one of my hundreds of paperback detectives to clear the case. Right now, I want Reacher on it.
The other part of my idiot brain goes into Jim Jones territory, with a charismatic elder penguin making the mamas make the babies drink the kool-aid.
Maybe next year, some daffy Hollywood type will do an animated movie about turkey buzzards and everybody will love their road-kill-eating scavenger asses. Christ, they’re birds. It reminds me of one of my favorite Thurber lines — “Good God, the birds have taken over!” I guess you had to be there.
FWIW, baby penguin carcasses have been washing up on South America beaches since there were penguins and South America. Only now, thanks to modern technology, we have people who can tell us about it, as if it mattered. Thanks, Internet!
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