Hah! Our Penguin Candidate Gambit is Working!!!

Thursday, 28 March 2002, 1:53 pm
Press Release: The Corrective Party

Correctives: Hah! Our Penguin Candidate Gambit is Working!!!

"Hrrkkk hhhrrrkk hrrrkkk arrrq queeg!!!" gloated Tripitaka Adelie-Penguin today, as the Corrective Party spokescreature for Antarctic Affairs today gloated over recent discoveries about her subspecies DNA.

"According to Messey University anthropologists, Adelie Penguins can evolve quite rapidly. This has some unfortunate side-effects, which certain potato chip companies are exploiting. And why don't we lower the voting age to five, so that penguin-oriented young people can vote for this remarkably cute, cuddly candidate?" queried Corrective Party spokesnun in chief, Sister Malodora.

"The Correctives are riding high as a result of all this penguin related news coverage, media spin opportunities and cheap publicity. Arrrgh!!! Who put this sodium pentathol in my drink?"

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