Wally and Osborne

I hardly notice it… looks fine.

Bopping each other with their bellies is a common way for penguins to fight. I’ll see if I can get some video footage of that to share with you in the next day or so.

Penguins On the Highway

I hadn’t been following my news feeds lately and was going through catching up. Earlier this month, a truck carrying zoo animals overturned on a Texas highway spilling out two dozen penguins onto the road. One penguin died in the crash and three were killed by oncoming traffic. Man, that would feel horrible to run over a penguin.

Dust in the wind… Osborne’s rocks are dust in the wind. Guess that’s what he gets for being a cheapskate.

You may have noticed I used squid as the currency yesterday. Like one reader mentioned it was a play on the word quid, a British slang for their own currency, a pound, and I think a fairly commonly used word in Australia.

Previously I had used clams as a unit of currency in the comic. Also a slang word for a dollar. This doesn’t seem to fit because I don’t believe any clams exist in the immediate coastal area of the continent of Antarctica and they are not on the food menu for penguins, so they wouldn’t really have any value. In fact I can’t find much information of any mollusks there. I think you would have to head up the Antarctica peninsula a ways up the islands or to the deeper outer reaches of the sea. Then there are some weird shellfish happening. If you recall, even the crabeater seal does not eat crab, but most likely got the name while munching on krill. The waters surrounding the continent do however seem to have some species of starfish and urchins.

Anyway, while researching this I did come across a cool little article about giant clams that lived in an ancient Antarctica and lived up to 120 years!

Another Ad Agency Not Knowing That There Are Two Poles Strikes Again

I don’t watch TV that much, but the other night while going to sleep I had flipped it to Discovery Channel or Animal Planet (which I believe is owned by Discovery). Anyway, sometime in the middle of the night I woke up to a commercial, my Antarctic senses must have been tingling. It was for Capital One, a husband is telling his wife about the vacation they are going on, she guesses some island places but it ends up showing them in either the Arctic or Antarctic. You don’t really know because he is sitting around some penguins (Antarctic creatures) when he makes the joke that it is walrus mating season (Arctic creatures) and his wife goes running in the background with one chasing her.

Last time I gave the commercial creators a hard time because it was targeted at kids. And they should not be confusing them. This time it’s on the freaking Discovery Channel! Come on people, isn’t marketing about research? And a lot of this is just common knowledge. It’s like showing an African Safari with a bunch of kangaroos hopping around.

So, that was kind of weird. I bet you didn’t know Wally could do that. Must be some sort of prosthetic nose or something. He just wants to give all he can.

T-Shirt Sale!

If you have been wanting to get a Wally, Osborne or Penguins Is Serious shirt, this week is a good time as there is a 15% OFF SALE going on for orders of $15 or more. Use this coupon code: SUMMERSALE06

I’ll be adding some new T-shirt designs soon and am also putting together some new wallpapers. See you tomorrow.

You knew I wasn’t going to let Wally and Osborne just go off with that pathetic penguin’s rocks. They have good hearts. I would be much more apt to toss him to a killer whale to put him out of his misery. Actually I should start a donation button to save him.

Update Schedule

So last week hit a low for updates at only zero. The good news is that today I’m finishing the last of the work-related projects I’ve been busy with, so I’ll be able to get back to the regular updates as well as get back to preparing the first Wally & Osborne book collection.

Mother of Pearl Cloud

Check out the undoctored photos of a rare nacreous cloud over Antarctica that is produced in extremely cold air.

Global Warming Funtime

“A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island.” Capitalization! Well… I guess that way the ice goes to good use, heh, I’d try a pint… you know, to stay cool on a warming globe.

Also, “world leaders have been urged to put more money into developing new energy technologies to tackle global warming.” I’m looking forward to new energy technologies, if nothing else, more cost efficient methods. Energy is starting to get real expensive these days.