Subject: Re: you crazy Canadians

au323@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Susan Lantos) writes:

>talk about crazy. You've got those stupid crazy movies
>from the states like barcelona which i waasted money on last nite.
>what the hell does that movie mean? it made no sense and was not
>at all entertaining ...
>SuXanna

  I have never seen "Barcelona" and never intend to.
  What I do intend to do is waste lots of time at coffee shops.
    slaughter it.
 
 Do penguins have knees?

  beta@eskimo.com
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From: jcumming@jazz.epas.utoronto.ca (James Cummings)

Newsgroups: alt.fun.with.luc

Subject: Re: you crazy Canadians

In article <Cuwxo3.63B@eskimo.com>, Nick Moffitt <beta@eskimo.com> wrote:

By the way, wouldn't it be more polite to name that inuit.com ?

> Do penguins have knees?

I quote from the national bestseller, "Do Penguins Have Knees? - An
Imponderables(tm) Book by the Author of _Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise_"
By David Feldman.

"
Do Penguins have Knees?

They sure do, although they are discreetly hidden underneath their
feathers.  Anatomically, all birds' legs are pretty much alike,
although the dimensions of individual bones vary a great deal among
species.
	Penguin, like other birds, have legs divided into three
segments.  the upper segment, the equivalent of our thigh, and the
middle segment, the equivalent of our shinbone, or the drumstick of a
chicken, are both quite short in penguins.
	When we see flamingos, or other birds with long legs, they
appear to possess a knee turned backwards, but these are not the
equivalent of the human knee.  Penguins, flamingos,s and other birds
do have knees, with patellas (knee caps) that bend and function much
like their human counterparts.
	We spoke to Dr. Don Bruning, curator of ornithology at the New
York Zoological Park (better known as the Bronx Zoo), who told us that
the backwards joint that we perceive as a knee in flamingos actually
separates the bird equivalent of the ankle from the bones of the upper
foot.  The area below the backwards joint is not the lower leg but the
upper areas of the foot.  In otherwords, penguins (and other birds)
stand on their toes, like ballet dances.
	Penguins are birds, of course, but their element is water
rather than sky.  Penguins may waddle on land, but their legs help
make them swimming machines.  Penguins use their wings as propellers
in the water, and their elongated feet act as rudders.
	So rest assured.  Even if you can't see them, penguins have
legs (with knees).  And they know how to use them " ( _Do Penguins Have
Knees_, David Feldman, New York, HarperCollins: 1991., pg 160) [All Typos
My Fault]

Oh what?  You mean it was a rhetorical question?

-James/PAndroid