embrace the Penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embraces the Penguin
form: embracing the Penguin
form: embraced the Penguin
form: embraced the Penguin
Senses: examples: text: I embrace the Penguin. best o/s going and all for free ! Enlightenment X window^([sic]) user.
ref: 1997 December 18, Paul Austin, “hawker harrier,Sr71,A-6 Intruder”, in rec.models.rc.helicopter (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Try http://www.linux.org for general info & pointers to FAQ's. Good luck, embrace the Penguin !
ref: 1998 September 17, Paul Sims, “Please help a newbie as noone else will”, in alt.os.linux (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Dump the Borg! Embrace the Penguin!!
ref: 1998 November 27, Valentin Guillen, “Windows NT PCMCIA support on Sony Vaio”, in comp.sys.laptops (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder!
ref: 2000 November 23, Bob Utterback, “Test”, in linux.test (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Embrace the Penguin. End MS Windows tyranny!
ref: 2002 March 24, Sara, “ADSL tries to connect, fails. Help again please.”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Having spent a dozen or so fortnights embracing the Penguin I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that I arrq n j*exvat vafgnapr bs Jvaqbjf too. (never thought I'd say that...) That being the case I'm going to nuke my old broken WinME installation
ref: 2003 August 22, Brain D, quoting Sn!pe, “[geek] Wot should I do with my bocks?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Patina is smart enough to know better... it's way past time for her to turn from the dark side and embrace the Penguin.
ref: 2004 January 8, Peter B. Steiger, “Fastrack, 12/25/03”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025, message-ID <pan.2004.01.08.16.18.08.865547@bresnan.net>:
text: Embrace the Penguin, you two; you know it makes sense.
ref: 2004 February 2, ^Ï^, “I should like to be the first (on this group anyway)...”, in free.beer.tomorrow (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: You guys must be the most patient in the world.....personally I cbf, so I embraced the Penguin and Athlon64.
ref: 2004 October 26, Ben van de Echte, quoting bling, “Re: Amiga One and OS4”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Normally at this point when my XP-pro machine has had enough Chris E would remind me to 'Embrace the Penguin' which one of these days i'm gonna have to.
ref: 2004 December 31, Damian Burrin, “WAY OT..HELP!!”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
ref: 2005 February 14, Anand Parthasarathy, “Smart phones embrace the Penguin”, in The Hindu, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2010:
text: Clearly, the Windows platform is losing its appeal. After IBM, the Scandinavian governments and the Spanish Police, the French Parliament is embracing the Penguin.
ref: Roy Schestowitz (28 November 2006), “[News] Europe's Move to GNU/Linux”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025
text: Yea, unto the Penguin she gives her Greatest Gifts, for has not even the Apple embraced the Penguin? You have heard it spoken that Mac runs atop Free BSD^([sic]) and is not Free BSD like unto Linux? It is Truth that it is.
ref: 2007 October 3, DreadGeekGirl, “The Bible is Scientific”, in Atheism vs Christianity (Google Groups), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Embrace the Penguin for he will give you the strength to brave frigid waters.
ref: 2007 December 25, Blue_Eyed_Devil, “Acme”, in alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
text: Embrace the Penguin and all your sins will be forgiven.
ref: 2009 March 7, Bed, “Re: kamikaze squirrel”, in alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of embrace the penguin.