This is great! It comes out of the folklore of the Falkland Islands war,
and even appeared in the Bloom County comic strip several years ago. Opus
the penguin, of course, was telling the story about his relatives.

I love telling it!

--Jerry Tangren
<tangren at wsu.edu>

>Tweets,
>
>I hope that you find this amusing!
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Subject: Penguins
>
>PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH FREE TIME....
>
>A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed
>on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new
>game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
>pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly
>along it at the water edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their
>heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn
>around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite
>direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the
>paper reports, "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
>colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
>fall over gently onto their backs.