Quoth the Pingu:
May 5, 2024 11:54 AM   Subscribe

Edgar Allan Poe's The Pingu, by author Adam Roberts ( wiki).
posted by rollick (12 comments total) 21 users marked this as a favorite
 
Sorry, gonna have to stop you there, pingu, but this is the best pastiche of all time. ALL TIME

THIS BE THE KIRSCH by Kieran Healy.
posted by lalochezia at 12:30 PM on May 5, 2024 [10 favorites]


“Though thy body’s plasticene-y, thou” I said, “art sure no weenie,
Penguin proud and brisk, though teeny, walking your Antarctic route
Tell me what you think you’re doing, on this dark Antarctic route?”
posted by doctornemo at 2:13 PM on May 5, 2024 [1 favorite]


This is great.
posted by JHarris at 2:17 PM on May 5, 2024


For more French animation goodness, look up La Linea.

More on topic though, this is great. That little angry penguin has been living in my head rent free for years and years now. I kinda wish there was a version of this poem that was as long as the Poe original…
posted by omegajuice at 2:58 PM on May 5, 2024 [3 favorites]


Where I live, Pingu is an ice cream served in a penguin's head. With a cowboy hat.
posted by chavenet at 3:05 PM on May 5, 2024 [2 favorites]


Um, omegajuice, while you're correct that La Linea is excellent, it's rather famously Italian...
posted by prismatic7 at 4:11 PM on May 5, 2024 [2 favorites]


Argh! I stand corrected. Thanks prismatic7. Guess I should practice what I preach.
posted by omegajuice at 6:39 PM on May 5, 2024


Times like this I always tell people to read Penguin Island by Anatole France.
posted by ovvl at 7:43 PM on May 5, 2024


I want one of those ice creams.
posted by Phanx at 8:00 AM on May 6, 2024



remembering these ravens: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1056571876 --by the editor of word ways--
& somewhere mike maguire has a website which does the raven in pi-digit letter-lengths (3 letter word, 1 letter word, 4 letter word ktp) but i can't seem to turn it up
posted by graywyvern at 9:35 AM on May 6, 2024


Noooooot!
posted by mazola at 10:25 AM on May 6, 2024


Igloos in Antarctica. Bah! Hum-burgers!
posted by mule98J at 1:29 PM on May 6, 2024


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