Was Pingu really talking Finnish or was it just bollocks?

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Well? Sounded like druggy shite to me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 16 January 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I appreciate that Americans/non-students might not know who Pingu is.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 16 January 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a Pingu pencil case once.

― Lara, Thursday, 16 January 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought a pingu pencil case in the czech republic for my girlfriend. it said 'please remembver pingu is your friends.' and 'swirl your pointed pines.' on [I haven't errored].

I don't think 'meep-meep' and 'honk-honk' are that widely used in day-to-day finland-talk.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 16 January 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Pingu. Curiously enough, I understand everything he and his friends say (despite the fact I don't know a single word of Finnish) so I am inclined to think it may be some made-up hybrid mish-mash of words which sound vaguely European in origin and which spark some sort of recognition in my tiny brane.

I heard a story once about a little girl (aged about four, I think) who loved Pingu. Her parents were divorced, and her Dad took her to the zoo on one of the days he was allowed to see her. They were momentarily separated in the crowds - Dad searching frantically to find little daughter - and eventually found her with soaking wet clothes which she refused to explain the reason for, and insisting they went straight home because she was tired now.

As they walked back to the car park, Dad heard a little meeping noise coming from the rucksack on tiny daughter's back. She had somehow managed to kidnap a baby penguin. (He made her take it back).

― C J (C J), Thursday, 16 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Finnish is a fascinating, unique language. Pingu doesn't sound Finnish to me.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I just asked Erika who sits next to me and I can reveal that Pingu is talking Gobbledegook.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't it supposed to be icelandic and not finnish?

― , Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I appreciate that Americans/non-students might not know who Pingu is.

An excellent appreciation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Pingu makes more sense than Quauqua

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel sorry for Ned that he does not know Pingu.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ironorchid.com/tristan/pingu.jpg

― Venga, Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gla.ac.uk/~woody/pics/pingu.jpg

― Venga, Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Pingu roXor.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:01 (twenty-three years ago)

And Pingu loves English! There was a book about his interest in it once.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 17 January 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

ten years pass...

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/pingu_zps711fc226.jpg

― that futterwacken you like is back in style (how's life), Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

Pingu caught the vapors.

― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 January 2013 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

one does not simply noot noot into Mordor
— tumblr simulator (@TumblrSimulator) December 26, 2017

― mark s, Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:00 (eight years ago)

Say what?

― Dr. Winston ‘Merritone’ Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:22 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

"one does not simply noot noot into Mordor"

one does

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 02:53 (three years ago)

Pingu uses no language so as to have universal appeal. It's truly a series of well-structured grunts.

― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Thursday, 20 October 2022 02:58 (three years ago)

We watched hours of pingu =- days - I like the world of artic clay - and funny too

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 03:45 (three years ago)

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