That clip is amazing.
Thanks,
vicky
Aww...:( Mine says it's only available in the UK
Are you sure this isn't an April Fool's Joke?
Yes, it was an April Fool's joke, I believe!:D
Grateful:giverose:
Yes it is an April Fools joke. The BBC in particular does this kind of thing, because people always believe the BBC is accurate.
The clue is in the fact that Terry Jones (of Python fame) stars in the documentary. H also says they fly to South American tropical forests for the winter. There is a shot of a surprised Toucan as a penguin comes crashing through the trees.
Seeing people believe the rediculous and then suddenly reality dawns on them is a bit like being on this board.
Previous spoofs were the documentary of the Spaghetti Tree showing Italians harvesting spaghetti off this tree, or daylight savings time where people were informed that due to daylight saving, the calendars needed to be realigned, so two days out of the middle of the first week in April were going to be removed.
I believe the origin of April's Fools was when some considered the beginning of the year to be April not January.
Those who continued to consider it as April 1 were called April fools.
The calendar has been fiddled with over the centuries, So that the months named September to December (Quintilis 5, Sextilis 6, Sept. 7, Oct. 8, Nov 9 and Dec 10,) are now 2 months out, September now being not the seventh, but the ninth month. Julius Caesar had July named after him and nicked days so that his was one of the longest months..31 days. I believe Augustus Caesar did the same not to be outdone. So July and August both have 31 days.
The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius "March", Aprilis "April", Maius "May", Junius "June", Quintilis "July", Sextilis "August", September "September", October "October", November "November", December "December", and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January" and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius to Januarius and changed the number of days in several months to be odd, a lucky number. After Februarius there was occasionally an additional month of Intercalaris "intercalendar". This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number of days in many months and removing Intercalaris.
vicky
Evolution proved as Creationists are in uproar as BBC unveils new documentary on a newly discovered species of penguin.
Evolution is also an "April fools joke."
BBC comes clean about April Fools penguin joke
by Darren Davidson Brand Republic 02-Apr-08, 12:20