Penguin (disambiguation)

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Depending on context, the word Penguin may refer to:

Contents 1 Bird 2 Clothing 3 Comic culture 4 Computing 5 Food 6 Game 7 Music 8 Person 9 Place 10 Publishing 11 Sports 12 Films 13 Other

[edit] Bird

• a penguin — a flightless bird from the Southern Hemisphere
• an old name for the Great Auk - an extinct flightless bird which filled the ecological niche of true penguins in the North Atlantic

[edit] Clothing

• Original Penguin is a brand of apparel by MunsingWear

[edit] Comic culture

• Pokey the Penguin — a webcomic
• The Penguin — a villain in the Batman comic books
• Pingu — a cartoon penguin
• Pecola — a Japanese CGI penguin
• Tennessee Tuxedo — a television cartoon penguin from the 1960's
• Piplup, the Penguin Pokemon.
• Chilly Willy — a cartoon penguin

[edit] Computing

• Penguin Software — a home computer video game company in the 1980s.
• Tux — the penguin logo/mascot of the Linux project
• Penguin Booter — a boot loader to load Linux on m68k-based Macintosh computers.
• Pingu Throw, another name for the Yetisports games.

[edit] Food

• Penguin Mints, a brand of caffeinated mints made by Seattle-based ifive brands
• Penguin (biscuit) a brand of chocolate biscuit made by McVitie's
• Penguin (Korean company) Food company of South Korea http://www.penguin.co.kr

[edit] Game

• Chill Penguin, a Maverick boss from Mega Man X
• Club Penguin, a non-fighting multiplayer game.
• Penguin, a solitaire card game

[edit] Music

• The Penguins — a 1950's doo-wop band best known for the top ten hit "Earth Angel"
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• Penguin, an album by Fleetwood Mac

[edit] Person

• George Mitchell aka The Penguin, famous Dublin Criminal[1]

[edit] Place

• the town of Penguin — located on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia

See also Penguin Island - the name of a book and of a number of islands.

[edit] Publishing

• Penguin Group — the publishing company
• Penguin Books — the British publisher

[edit] Sports

• The Pittsburgh Penguins — a National Hockey League (NHL) team
• The Youngstown State University Penguins, the name of the various sports teams affiliated with the university
• A running group started by John Bingham [2]
• A juggling trick where you catch each ball by rotating your wrist to face the outside of the pattern, followed by rotating your wrist back to the middle (inside) of the pattern to throw it again

[edit] Films

• March of the Penguins, an award-winning documentary based on the migration process of penguins.
• And a parody film entitled Farce of the Penguins, that was directed by comedian Bob Saget
• Also the subject of Happy Feet
• Also the subject of Surf's Up (film)
• A penguin plays an important role in Nick Park's short claymation film, The Wrong Trousers.

[edit] Other

• a type of Feynman diagram, remotely resembling a penguin bird - e.g. [3]
• a slang term for nuns, based on the stereotypical black habit with a white wimple
• a slang term for men wearing tuxedos
• Penguins — the school mascot for Portal School
• the Penguin missile
• The Penguins' Revolution or "The March of the Penguins", a 2006 chilean student protest.

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