Falklands' Lord Penguin is in town; Mike Summers visits new friends in Montreal

Saturday, April 16th 2016 - 08:06 UTC

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Lord Penguin is in town. Actually he's no Lord or penguin, but ”I was after an intriguing headline for the meeting between Mike Summers, member of the Falklands' Legislative Assembly, Malouins in French, who this week is in Montreal to see his friend...the dragon (software programmer) Serge Beauchemin. I hope he forgives me for this fantasy”. Read full article

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Faulconbridge
Lord Malouins: has a certain ring to it.
Apr 16th, 2016 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Lord Penguin...?
Even if they are certain similarities...
I think Penguin News is streching it a bit too far...!
http://i.imgur.com/Z1TP8EA.jpg
Apr 16th, 2016 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
“Not bad for 3.000 people living on rocky islands where no trees grow”

The treeless myth.............. again-like the 'no one supports the Islanders' myth and the 'it always rains and snows in the Falkland's' myth.
Apr 16th, 2016 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Like all the argy myths.
Apr 16th, 2016 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Skip
Nice to see Mike in Montreal, he beat me there by 4 months.
Apr 16th, 2016 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Devonian
@ 3. Yes there are trees in the Falkland islands but you'd have to agree that there aren't a lot and if you plant one it takes a very long time to grow to any significant size. Forested the Islands will never be.
As for Lord Penguin - I assumed the journalist was referring to the size of Mike's hooter.
Apr 20th, 2016 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
@6

There aren't, but there's a big difference between no trees and several hundred. And more are planted all the time. It would help if mychorizza was added during planting and if trees were planted near a source of water as it is the dryness of the Falklands that also impedes tree growth. The Falklands would be less barren if much of the Tussac had not been destroyed. Tall Ferns aren't exactly ground hugging either -I camped out near some once, which were over 5 feet. There is a load of bullshit about the Falklands being 'barren'-the vegetation is different from warmer climates that's all, but it is still lush and abundant in many areas. The description of the Falklands as just bare rocks by some, is proof of their ignorance, not an expression of intelligence.
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Skip
Stereotyping a country's physical features is common. Who doesn't think Australia is all sunny beaches? Or red deserts? Pictures or lush dairy farming in Gippsland or dry eucalyptus forests doesn't spring to mind.
Apr 20th, 2016 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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