Sir Nils Olav. The second. Penguin.

[desperance]

This is barking mad.

No, seals bark. Honking mad, clucking mad? Chirping mad? I don't know. What noise do penguins make?

Ordinarily I love military rituals and eccentricities; but knighting a penguin? When it's not even the same penguin? Hmmph...

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Humans are strange and wonderful creatures. :)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

It's a conceptual penguin.

Whether that makes this any less ludicrous, however, I don't know.

[szandara.livejournal.com]

The UK has a worldwide reputation for eccentricity, and this is a splendid example. A symbolic Sir Penguin? Coolth.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

If only they hasn't changed the House of Lords regs. He could have upgraded to a Bart. and sat on scientific committees.

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

I cannot object to any event in which a penguin danders along inspecting the troops and then tries, quite sensibly, to run away from the man with the sword. Just can't.

...although part of me really thinks this should be incorporated into a Batman comic sometime. The Penguin bringing Sir Penguin to Gotham and showing him around. Batman sweeping down to beat up the Penguin for some crime. "Really, Batman, not in front of my guest!' (cue...whatever sound penguin's do make.)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I feel so proud of our wonderful heritage.

[windsea.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is one of the most wonderful stories I have ever heard!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Oh, my.

That's the very best kind of insane. :)

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Penguin noises vary, I think, but they usually make quite a low, gurgling sound. Sort of a cross between gargling and purring. Purgling?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

No, you're thinking of the original (lovable eccentric) Penguin. This is the 80s reboot grim and gritty Penguin...

Oh, sorry.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's a Norwegian knighthood. We may be eccentric, but we're not the only ones.

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

It beats hanging a monkey because we thought he was a French spy.

Personally I thought knighting the penguin was rather sweet. :)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for the great discovery, some historical document to turn up and prove that Hartlepool was right: that monkey really was working for the French.

[jeremy-m.livejournal.com]

> When it's not even the same penguin?

That's the part I like best, the implication that it would be just about reasonable if it were the same penguin. And I've remembered what it reminds me of, the technique of adding an apparently sensible remark at the end of some madness, where that remark is in context the madder one: I saw it in a personal ad once.

Wanted: partner for baby bird feeding play. I'll supply the costumes, you bring the raw fish. No weirdos.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That's ... magnificent. Thank you.