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Penguin Jokes
So I recently bought a packet of Penguin bars, and found a duplicate joke. Naturally I was concerned that there was some fault, and so attempted to determine how many jokes there are (obviously if there are only 8, then a repeated joke in a packet of 9 is necessary). The Internet didn't seem to know, so I went to the source, and emailed McVitie's.
The replied fairly promptly, sending me a list of jokes, but didn't say explicitly whether it was comprehensive. Therefore I am posting the list here, to see if anyone has encountered a joke that isn't on their list. It is also an excuse for us to try and come up with Penguin puns.
The List:
Q: Who is a Penguin´s favourite pop star?
A: Seal.
Q: Why do Penguins carry fish in their beaks?
A: Because they haven´t got any pockets.
Q: What do Penguins sing on a birthday?
A: Freeze a jolly good fellow.
Q: What do you call a penguin in the desert?
A: Lost.
Q: What do Penguins have for lunch?
A: Iceburg-ers.
Q: What kind of fish do Penguins catch at night?
A: Starfish.
Q: What´s black and white and goes round and around?
A: A Penguin in a revolving door.
Q: What do mother Penguins say to their children before they go out in the dark?
A: Beak....careful out there.
Q: What´s black & white, black & white, black & white and black & white?
A: A penguin rolling down the hill.
Q: Where do penguins keep their money?
A: In a snow bank
Q: Why can't penguins fly?
A: Because they don't have enough money to buy plane tickets.
Q: Where do penguins go to dance?
A: The snow ball.
Q: How do penguins drink?
A: Out of beak-ers.
Q: Who's the penguin's favorite Aunt?
A: Aunt-arctica.
Q: How does a penguin make pancakes?
A: With its flippers.
Q: What do you get when you cross a penguin and an alligator?
A: I don't know, but don't try to fix its bow tie.
Q: Why are penguins good race drivers?
A: Because they're always in the pole position.
Q: How do Penguins drink their cola?
A: On the rocks.
Q: What's a penguin's favorite salad?
A: Iceberg lettuce
So, any you've encountered that aren't on here? Are McVitie's trying to play me for a fool? A FOOL??
The replied fairly promptly, sending me a list of jokes, but didn't say explicitly whether it was comprehensive. Therefore I am posting the list here, to see if anyone has encountered a joke that isn't on their list. It is also an excuse for us to try and come up with Penguin puns.
The List:
Q: Who is a Penguin´s favourite pop star?
A: Seal.
Q: Why do Penguins carry fish in their beaks?
A: Because they haven´t got any pockets.
Q: What do Penguins sing on a birthday?
A: Freeze a jolly good fellow.
Q: What do you call a penguin in the desert?
A: Lost.
Q: What do Penguins have for lunch?
A: Iceburg-ers.
Q: What kind of fish do Penguins catch at night?
A: Starfish.
Q: What´s black and white and goes round and around?
A: A Penguin in a revolving door.
Q: What do mother Penguins say to their children before they go out in the dark?
A: Beak....careful out there.
Q: What´s black & white, black & white, black & white and black & white?
A: A penguin rolling down the hill.
Q: Where do penguins keep their money?
A: In a snow bank
Q: Why can't penguins fly?
A: Because they don't have enough money to buy plane tickets.
Q: Where do penguins go to dance?
A: The snow ball.
Q: How do penguins drink?
A: Out of beak-ers.
Q: Who's the penguin's favorite Aunt?
A: Aunt-arctica.
Q: How does a penguin make pancakes?
A: With its flippers.
Q: What do you get when you cross a penguin and an alligator?
A: I don't know, but don't try to fix its bow tie.
Q: Why are penguins good race drivers?
A: Because they're always in the pole position.
Q: How do Penguins drink their cola?
A: On the rocks.
Q: What's a penguin's favorite salad?
A: Iceberg lettuce
So, any you've encountered that aren't on here? Are McVitie's trying to play me for a fool? A FOOL??
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Why was the penguin intimidated by an icy stare?
Because it was glacier!
NB: This joke requires a Northern accent.
Because it was glacier!
NB: This joke requires a Northern accent.
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Why don't you see penguins in Britain?
Because they're afraid of Wales.
Think this may have been one.
Because they're afraid of Wales.
Think this may have been one.
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Well I've emailed them back asking to confirm whether it's comprehensive or not. If anyone can find any evidence in the meantime that it isn't, that'd be good.
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I went downstairs and checked all 12 penguins I have in the cupboard. All the jokes that feature on them are listed above. Sounds pretty conclusive to me.
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I'm guessing they're on special offer at Tesco's at the moment? Because we have like 4 packets in the cupboard.
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Packs of 9 were half price when I got mine. Does this mean you've checked all those packets and found no new joke?Jimmy Gough wrote:I'm guessing they're on special offer at Tesco's at the moment? Because we have like 4 packets in the cupboard.
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Yeah. (kind of)
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Kind of?Jimmy Gough wrote:Yeah. (kind of)
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Why don't penguins ever appear on Countdown?
Because every time they start the trek to the audition they get cold feet
Who is the king of the chocolate biscuit bars?
The Emperor Penguin
Why do nuns dress like penguins?
It's the habit they've got into
How many penguins does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
nun - they've already seen the light
Why is a computer network like a penguin?
Because they always ping u
What do you say to a Welshman when you want to use his writing implement?
May I borrow your pen, Gwyn?
Because every time they start the trek to the audition they get cold feet
Who is the king of the chocolate biscuit bars?
The Emperor Penguin
Why do nuns dress like penguins?
It's the habit they've got into
How many penguins does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
nun - they've already seen the light
Why is a computer network like a penguin?
Because they always ping u
What do you say to a Welshman when you want to use his writing implement?
May I borrow your pen, Gwyn?
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I checked one and a half packets.Michael Wallace wrote:Kind of?Jimmy Gough wrote:Yeah. (kind of)
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Re: Penguin Jokes
Oh oh oh oh!
A man runs into a bar and dashes up to the barman and says "quick, quick, how tall do penguins get?"
The barman puts his hand just around his knee and says "about here"
The man says "CRAP. Then I just ran over a nun."
A man runs into a bar and dashes up to the barman and says "quick, quick, how tall do penguins get?"
The barman puts his hand just around his knee and says "about here"
The man says "CRAP. Then I just ran over a nun."
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Although I don't know how that'd fit on a penguin wrapper.Kieran Child wrote:Oh oh oh oh!
A man runs into a bar and dashes up to the barman and says "quick, quick, how tall do penguins get?"
The barman puts his hand just around his knee and says "about here"
The man says "CRAP. Then I just ran over a nun."
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I was thinking that.Jimmy Gough wrote: Although I don't know how that'd fit on a penguin wrapper.
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I tried to devise my own penguin joke (maybe involving a pen and somebody called Gwyn?) but I failed
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Q: What Olympic sport are penguins best at?
A: The pole vault.
Also, I've just looked through the list - I don't think I've ever seen the Beak careful out there one before.
A: The pole vault.
Also, I've just looked through the list - I don't think I've ever seen the Beak careful out there one before.
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Okay there was a speech therapist named Gwyn and she was with a guy called Martin.Jimmy Gough wrote:I tried to devise my own penguin joke (maybe involving a pen and somebody called Gwyn?) but I failed
GWYN: What's the matter Martin?
MARTIN: I think you'd better write this down
GWYN: Tell me what's wrong.
MARTIN: P-P-P-P-Pick up a pen Gwyn.
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What's your vector, Victor?Jimmy Gough wrote: GWYN: What's the matter Martin?
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How do you know if your mate's attracted to penguins?
Whenever they're mentioned his Pole heads North
Whenever they're mentioned his Pole heads North
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Who is every penguin's favourite darts commentator?
Sid Waddle.
Sid Waddle.
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So it seems that this list is[/is] comprehensive, but that they renew the jokes from time to time, so it is only the jokes currently in use. Unfortunately it seems that they don't have old jokes on record (or at least, not available to the people I was in contact with).
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I have the requisite accent. I still don't get it.Charlie Reams wrote:Why was the penguin intimidated by an icy stare?
Because it was glacier!
NB: This joke requires a Northern accent.
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Re: Penguin Jokes
Two penguins collide, each panic-stricken, one says to the other:
"Don't go that way mate, I have just seen a crowd of c**ts from McVitie's scoping for some more produce."
The other says:
"I'll take my effing chances, I have just seen Jeremy Clarkson armed with a cheese grater."
"Don't go that way mate, I have just seen a crowd of c**ts from McVitie's scoping for some more produce."
The other says:
"I'll take my effing chances, I have just seen Jeremy Clarkson armed with a cheese grater."
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I take it you posted that from Peterborough rather than Cambridge then.Charlie Reams wrote:Why was the penguin intimidated by an icy stare?
Because it was glacier!
NB: This joke requires a Northern accent.
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You've really started something now, Raccoon. These penguin jokes are spreading all over the forums.
What's black and white and red all over?
A penguin with something contagious.
What's black and white and read all over?
A forum full of contagious penguin jokes.
What's black and white and crimson all over?
An angry Charlie Reams after a Sue-per Sanders makeover.
What's black and white and red all over?
A penguin with something contagious.
What's black and white and read all over?
A forum full of contagious penguin jokes.
What's black and white and crimson all over?
An angry Charlie Reams after a Sue-per Sanders makeover.
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Derek Hazell wrote:You've really started something now, Raccoon. These penguin jokes are spreading all over the forums.
What's black and white and red all over?
A penguin with something contagious.
What's black and white and read all over?
A forum full of contagious penguin jokes.
What's black and white and crimson all over?
An angry Charlie Reams after a Sue-per Sanders makeover.
'This one goes up to eleven'
Fool's top.
Fool's top.
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But please don't mistake unamusement for anger. If I got annoyed every time there was a failed joke on here I'd be annoyed, umm, all the time.Derek Hazell wrote:You've really started something now, Raccoon. These penguin jokes are spreading all over the forums.
What's black and white and red all over?
A penguin with something contagious.
What's black and white and read all over?
A forum full of contagious penguin jokes.
What's black and white and crimson all over?
An angry Charlie Reams after a Sue-per Sanders makeover.
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Charlie Reams wrote:If I got annoyed every time there was a failed joke on here I'd be annoyed, umm, all the time.
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'This one goes up to eleven'
Fool's top.
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You're really p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pushing it now, Sue!
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South? (have just scored 9 on autism quiz and thus am now keen to be more 'normal'... surely such pedantry counts!)Derek Hazell wrote:How do you know if your mate's attracted to penguins?
Whenever they're mentioned his Pole heads North
Dopey: Father, do nuns swim? (other 6 dwarves sniggering nearby)
Father: No son
Dopey: Father, do nuns eat fish? (other 6 dwarves still sniggering nearby)
Father: Only on Fridays son
Dopey: Father, do nuns waddle? (other 6 dwarves still sniggering nearby)
Father: Not usually, why do you ask?
6 dwarves: Dopey fucked a penguin...
NB no comment to relative amusingness made
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Oops are they only in the South Pole? That's a doubly flaccid joke then!Lesley Hines wrote:South? (have just scored 9 on autism quiz and thus am now keen to be more 'normal'... surely such pedantry counts!)Derek Hazell wrote:How do you know if your mate's attracted to penguins?
Whenever they're mentioned his Pole heads North
I liked it; a nice variation on Kieran's running over a nun one.[joke]
NB no comment to relative amusingness made
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So a few months ago McVitie's ran a competition to write a joke for Penguin bars, with the best 8 getting the honour of going into circulation. Being a fan of terrible puns, I entered, but alas did not win.
Fast forward a couple of months and I get an email out of the blue telling me that even though I hadn't been an overall winner, my joke was deemed good enough to win a WWF 'adopt a penguin' pack. I didn't realise penguins needed adopting (and the cuddly penguin I got sent as part of it has a tag claiming it is endangered, when the Internet says it isn't), but hey, WWF is cool, and this means I am a PRIZE-WINNING HUMORIST!
So after all this build up, what was the amazing joke?
Q: Why did the penguin blush?
A: Because he saw the polar bare!
Edit: Proof!
Fast forward a couple of months and I get an email out of the blue telling me that even though I hadn't been an overall winner, my joke was deemed good enough to win a WWF 'adopt a penguin' pack. I didn't realise penguins needed adopting (and the cuddly penguin I got sent as part of it has a tag claiming it is endangered, when the Internet says it isn't), but hey, WWF is cool, and this means I am a PRIZE-WINNING HUMORIST!
So after all this build up, what was the amazing joke?
Q: Why did the penguin blush?
A: Because he saw the polar bare!
Edit: Proof!
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That's fucking shocking, it doesn't even make sense, 'polar' isn't a noun (is it?). When it's "saw the salad dressing" etc at least it makes sense. One can only assume that they gave these out as pity prizes because they thought you were, like, 5, or something. Like on Take Hart when they used to show some fucking shit scrawl by a 4 year old in 'The Gallery' in amongst all the semi-decent artwork sent in.Michael Wallace wrote:Q: Why did the penguin blush?
A: Because he saw the polar bare!
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That's fucking shocking, it doesn't even make sense, 'polar' isn't a noun (is it?). When it's "saw the salad dressing" etc at least it makes sense. One can only assume that they gave these out as pity prizes because they thought you were, like, 5, or something. Like on Take Hart when they used to show some fucking shit scrawl by a 4 year old in 'The Gallery' in amongst all the semi-decent artwork sent in.Michael Wallace wrote:Q: Why did the penguin blush?
A: Because he saw the polar bare!
Edit: Sorry, forgot to say, well done and that.
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Agree 100% When I sent it in I was basically hoping they'd be all "oh, heh", without looking at it too closely to realise that it doesn't make any fucking sense.Jon Corby wrote:That's fucking shocking, it doesn't even make sense, 'polar' isn't a noun (is it?). When it's "saw the salad dressing" etc at least it makes sense. One can only assume that they gave these out as pity prizes because they thought you were, like, 5, or something. Like on Take Hart when they used to show some fucking shit scrawl by a 4 year old in 'The Gallery' in amongst all the semi-decent artwork sent in.Michael Wallace wrote:Q: Why did the penguin blush?
A: Because he saw the polar bare!
Edit: I sent them one other that did make sense, but afterwards realised (via google) that it wasn't original (what's a penguins favourite shape? an ice-osceles trainge).
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i might - well, i will - sound like a total dork (feel free to agree to this!); i dont get that one (the one i quoted). and the others are so common; i've heard most of them so many times. they are a bit funny but things that are funny make you laugh... - normally (although i did just smile when i read through some - i do understand the others, it's just that, well they are jokes, but they're not very funny ones. and also there is a topic that i did (called jolly jokes) for jokes...would've made sense putting these jokes in there...Michael Wallace wrote:Q: Who is a Penguin´s favourite pop star? A: Seal.
p.s. this may sound like im critisising you, michael w, but no, just...umm...making you aware...?
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Sophie, Seal is a singer from the 80s 90s era. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMD2TwRvuoU for one of his more famous songs. Also this thread was originally created in 2009, long before your jolly jokes thread.
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oh sorry didnt noticeMark James wrote:Also this thread was originally created in 2009, long before your jolly jokes thread.
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"The reason for life is to find out who you are"
"It always seems impossible until it's done"
Love loads of celebs to be honest... Might marry Nicky Maccy
"The reason for life is to find out who you are"
"It always seems impossible until it's done"
Love loads of celebs to be honest... Might marry Nicky Maccy
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oh right.Mark James wrote:Seal is a singer from the 80s 90s era
One Direction are my life. <3
"The reason for life is to find out who you are"
"It always seems impossible until it's done"
Love loads of celebs to be honest... Might marry Nicky Maccy
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Most of the winning ones are awful. "What's a penguins favourite subject? Ice-C-T". Seriously, fuck off. I might submit that to the Penguinness Book of Records for worst ever joke.