Harry & Pepper are history!

Krustee · Aug 3, 2009

So what happened?

Harry & Pepper have been a couple for a long time & after all why shouldn't they be a couple?
They're both male after all!

What happened?

Zoo officials at the San Francisco Zoo say it was because of a FEMALE!!!!

Well it was that damned trashy Linda!

The town slut went waltzing by & somehow her sashay caused rumblings in Harry's naughty bits.

Pepper & Harry were a happy couple by all accounts & had a child which they raised together.
(of course, they had to be given the egg by the staff at the zoo)

How the hell could a gay couple at the San Francisco Zoo, of all places, have a breakup because one of their own decides to start playin for the other team?

Well here's the story from a local source:

Penguin pair young and the restless

METRO CANADA
July 23, 2009 5:55 a.m.

I usually eschew celeb news in this column —that’s what the Celebrity Buzz pages are for — but the breakup of Pepper and Harry, the San Francisco Zoo’s famed gay penguins, seems momentous enough to merit an exception.

As the San Francisco Examiner reported earlier this month, Harry, after six years with Pepper, during which the two males hatched and raised an abandoned chick, has seemingly switched teams, taking up with Linda, a recently-widowed female, with whom he’s started a family.

The jokes have been irresistible, predictable and a little heartless. It’s hard enough to waddle through life under the constant scrutiny of zoo-goers without having to deal with the media as well.

Our species has reacted with all sorts of specious conclusions about same-sex marriage and other overstretched sociological metaphors. A conservative news site decided the split was evidence that nature preferred straight animals — as if Pepper’s new love somehow trumped the old one.

Those who oppose homosexuality react, as you might expect, somewhat unfavourably to gay penguins.

Penguins live about half their life on land and half in the water, so maybe they’re just adaptable. Linda and her dear departed mate had two nests, so in penguin terms, she was a rich widow.

The anthropomorphizing continues ad nauseam. It’s the nature of the human beast. We lock animals up in zoos to learn about them, in part because they seem so much like us — mating, eating and all the rest, but with much lower incidences of smoking, blogging and organized religion.

Penguins aren’t people, and we know it. We’re not really talking about the penguins.

We’re talking about ourselves, thinking in fables. Some very good, long-term relationships run their course, and that can bother the people outside them even more than the principals. When your favourite couple splits up, your relationship with them changes too, and like kids whose parents divorce, you’ve no say in the matter. If there’s a third party involved, like Linda, they’re an easy target for blame.

Nobody else knows what’s really going on between any two people (or penguins). Even the lovers themselves may be desperately trying to understand it. And sometimes a penguin is just a penguin.
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/comment/article/266671--penguin-pair-young-and-the-restless

Here's the story from the states:

Gay penguin couple split when the bi guy finds traditional mate

Uh oh, the famous gay couple of penguins, Harry and Pepper, at the San Francisco Zoo (of all places), split up, when the bisexual guy, Harry, became infatuated with LInda and moved in next door.

You can't make this stuff up. It's a real-life "Peyton Place" (or "Desperate Housewives" for those of you who may find that reference a bit dated).

Harry and Pepper have been together six years—which is long in both gay years and penguin years. They were even becoming great role models for their alternative lifestyle among the 50 penguins congregated at the zoo, which has the most penguins in captivity in North America.

Harry and Pepper raised and nurtured an egg together. The child did well and lives among them now.

But, Harry became infatuated by a recent widower, Linda, who's partner, Fig, died. Harry dumped his longtime male partner and nested with Linda, and are now raising two children of their own.

This is not good for bisexuals. It buys into a lot of stereotypes, like the bi person will leave the same-sex relationship for a "safe" coupling eventually.What the news has not reported, is whether there was any peer pressure among the other 50 penguins.

There were reports that Pepper tried to visit Harry and Linda a few times, but Harry didn't go back to his flamboyant friend. There was no cheating on Linda.

My most emphatic note is that this is not always true. I've known plenty of bisexuals who have monogamous partners with same-sex or opposite sex people. Don't use Harry's unceremonious dumping of Pepper as an excuse to avoid dating a bisexual.

These poor penguins were under the spotlight for so long, the pressure of being the "perfect same-sex couple" in the animal kingdom must have been as tough as Rod & Bob or Melissa & Julie. Certainly, living in the same city as the man who promoted same-sex marriage in California didn't help.

Don't gauge all bisexual relationships with the triangle between Harry, Pepper and Linda!

Check out the video of Harry & Pepper's break-up below, and a slide show, too.

* Bi penguin couple become parents at German zoo

* Cockroaches make great bisexual dads

http://www.examiner.com/x-3366-Bise...-split-when-the-bi-guy-finds-traditional-mate

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Harry & Pepper are history!

Krustee

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