Penguin Level

bobcat is short for robert feline

well it is

crocodiles do not swim here

Crocodiles; do not swim here is a command. Crocodiles do not swim here is a statement of fact. Now that we know these waters are safe, we'll be jumping right in!

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hmm, no, very mammalian

Original Tweet

penguins are cylinders

Physics textbooks often simplify their problems by asking students to make silly-sounding abstractions, in this case imagining a penguin to be shaped like a cylinder.

look at those cylinders go!

orangutan and chicken

In this thought experiment, you can choose to fight an orangutan with a sword once per year or a chicken every time you use your car. Choose wisely!

aloe puns

Wild Green Memes for EcALOEgical fiends has aloeng history of puns relating to this slimy plant. It started in our childhoods, when we watched Home ALOEN on VHS, then continued into our musical tastes and personal style as adults. Nowadays, you can catch us listening to Post mALOEn, wearing the sweet manly scent of the latest cALOEn, and driving around in a strange, short, spiky green car borrowed from Alfred Matthew. That's an aloe all-low Weird Al loan.

terry the fat shark

Terry is a shark who brings you gifts every week!

We told his life story in a podcast episode

turtles are donuts

This was an early example of AI getting something wrong in a humorous way. A program attempted to automatically caption this photo and got it better than correct.

Link to the original tweet by @Salamander_Jill

carcinization

Many different lineages of crustaceans keep converging on the CLACK crab form over time, a process which has been named "carcinization". When a trait or body form keeps re-evolving independently, it's usually a sign that it's a pretty effective way for an organism to be. People on the internet learned about this and then extrapolated to say that not only are many crustaceans fated to become crabs, but maybe everything alive will one CLICK CLICK day adopt the claw! We're going to wait and see what happens...

More details about carcinization

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