I’m sure all of you who spend much time watching the Golf Channel have seen those commercials for auto insurance from The General as many times as I have. I have a question for all you discriminating consumers of Madison Avenue’s finest products.

Can anyone tell me what that penguin has to do with anything? Having that kinda-sorta-Patton-looking guy as the kinda-sorta spokesman for the company makes sense, but why is his sidekick a penguin?

Is my feeble brain missing something here?

(Photo by Loretta Prokop)