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Subject: [Leica] Ken Burns and those dirty penguins
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:21:14 -0500
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Are they edible?

http://survivingtheworld.net/Recitation27.html



On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Chris Saganich <chs2018 at 
med.cornell.edu>wrote:

> Those penguins aren't holding up the the Christian ideals of fidelity and
> marriage?  What am I supposed to tell my kids now?  Penguins are like Mommy
> and Daddy?  They really looked up to those cute guys struggling in that
> harsh and dangerous Arctic world?  Who will their roll models be now?  
> Maybe
> it was only a contextual error.  They really do mate for life but for the
> sake of the survival of the group they must make babies with other penguins
> too.  They don't like it but it's the only way in such a harsh environment.
>
>
>
> At 04:48 PM 9/28/2009, you wrote:
>
>> > Sonny - The accuracy of documentaries is apparently becoming suspect.
>> > NPR's "On the Media" did a story on this last weekend.  "March of the
>> > Penguins" had factual errors to mention one well known example they
>> > they cited.  Michael Moore's stuff also plays pretty loose with the
>> > facts when it suits his purposes, they said.
>> >
>> > See:
>> >
>> > http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/09/25/08
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Dick
>> >
>> >
>> Luc Jacquet having done the Penguins not Burns - the accuracy of filmed
>> documentaries in general is becoming suspect like in general all of them
>> by
>> everybody!?!
>> How about the accuracy of non fiction books on the bookshelf are they
>> still
>> good?
>> Speakers on Lecture circuit OK?
>>
>> I think non-fiction had turned out to be not what its cracked up to be.
>> We can still trust fiction.
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>> I'm reading Agatha Christie Murder on the orient express.
>> If I like it she has 999 other books I can read till the year 2525.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Regards,

Sonny
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