No Thanks - Ive Already Got A Penguin (Need Help)

[The_Return]

Well, I got a t-shirt for Christmas. It's a black shirt with white writing that says:

No Thanks - Ive Already Got A Penguin

I love penguins...but I really dont get this shirt. Maybe Im just slow, but none of my friends get it either. Im a little wary about wearing it without knowing the joke...anyone care to help me out?

[stubbornforgey]

could it be that they were leaning towards your avatar??
could they be nicknaming your personal part??
i give up :o

[Vodstok]

does it have any logos? can you show us a pic of it?

[Posher778]

Well, I got a t-shirt for Christmas. It's a black shirt with white writing that says:

No Thanks - Ive Already Got A Penguin

I love penguins...but I really dont get this shirt. Maybe Im just slow, but none of my friends get it either. Im a little wary about wearing it without knowing the joke...anyone care to help me out?

Take it back and get that killbill penguin shirt.

[Roderick Usher]

I have no idea of the origin of this phrase, but I've heard it a ton. It was a by-product of the late 80's and early 90's teen fad of "being random" - the teens term for non-sequiter (Latin for "does not follow").

I used to do this all the time. Some stranger asks you a question (directions, the time, etc) and you answer with something that makes no sense and is only funny to you and your friends.

One of the oft-used phrases was "No thanks, I already have a penguin" but I also remember "No one suspects the butterflies" and "Cheese is made from milk" and "did you even notice that grass is like...everywhere?"

Stupid, yes...but good for a chuckle or two - and great fun to make them up on the fly.

Yeah...I was a weird kid

[Vodstok]

"No one suspects the butterflies"

When did you use this one? I ask because i can peg it directly to an episode of the Simpsons, where in the context, it actually makes some sense...

[Roderick Usher]

early 90's?

I'm sure most of these phrases came from the Simpsons - like "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me"

[Vodstok]

early 90's?

I'm sure most of these phrases came from the Simpsons - like "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me"
Ha ha! yeah.. i always loved that one...


Its from an episode where bart said he wanted to be reborn as a butterfly, because no one suspects the butterfly... And in his imagination, he is a butterfly holding a can of gas, and he framed Skinner for burning down the school.

[Despare]

I've seen it a lot of places but haven't been able to find out exactly when or where it was started.

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/planethalflife.gamespy.com/fms/images/potd/2321/1159455690_medium.jpg

[The_Return]

I have no idea of the origin of this phrase, but I've heard it a ton. It was a by-product of the late 80's and early 90's teen fad of "being random" - the teens term for non-sequiter (Latin for "does not follow").

I used to do this all the time. Some stranger asks you a question (directions, the time, etc) and you answer with something that makes no sense and is only funny to you and your friends.

One of the oft-used phrases was "No thanks, I already have a penguin" but I also remember "No one suspects the butterflies" and "Cheese is made from milk" and "did you even notice that grass is like...everywhere?"

Stupid, yes...but good for a chuckle or two - and great fun to make them up on the fly.

Yeah...I was a weird kid

Thats kind of what I was thinking it meant...just wanted to be positive.

[The Mothman]

I've seen it a lot of places but haven't been able to find out exactly when or where it was started.

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/planethalflife.gamespy.com/fms/images/potd/2321/1159455690_medium.jpg

*Sigh*

i miss Halflife.

[stubbornforgey]

lets see what uncle google has to say about it then huh

http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=phrase+no+thanks+i+already+have+a+penguin+&btnG=Google+S

i don't understand this at all..but then again..its not idiot proof

[Phalanx]

The shirt means you have an erection. If there isn't an arrow pointing down, you oughta put it on.

[slasherman]

Urban Dictionary :

No thanks, I already have a penguin

When one member of a conversation says something they obviously intend to sound brilliant, but which is either completely moronic or totally inappropriate, another member can respond with this line as a way of pointing out said inappropriateness.

Othello: I'm madly in love with Desdemona, but I fear she's being unfaithful.
Iago: You know, I once had a spicy burrito I felt the same way about.
Othello: (stopping, with his mouth hanging open and his eyes blinking) No thanks, I already have a penguin.




I rather wear this...:p

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/slasherman1971/dask/penguinHB13.jpg

[Vodstok]

*Sigh*

i miss Halflife.

I dont get it. I miss halflife too.


Dont you hate having to explain a joke? completely ruins it.... :D

[The Mothman]

I dont get it. I miss halflife too.


Dont you hate having to explain a joke? completely ruins it.... :D

no joke involved...i just miss playing the ol' Halflife.

[Vodstok]

then play it. i fire it up every so often, but more than anything, I am jonesin' for Black-Mesa Source....