Penguin Tennis

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Penguin Tennis


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's 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.


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