tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post6594575291134408985..comments2024-03-28T07:08:58.221-04:00Comments on Todd Seavey: If I Could Google the AnimalsTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-82086691920328753552008-02-12T08:12:00.000-05:002008-02-12T08:12:00.000-05:00Hey, thanks.Hey, thanks.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-11036202241018170452008-02-12T02:35:00.000-05:002008-02-12T02:35:00.000-05:00AWWW…sorry you lost your original stuffed woodchuc...AWWW…sorry you lost your original stuffed woodchuck… my husband and I have had a pair of puppet groundhogs since the day we met… and we keep a myspace with our travel photos with them. As we recover pics from our old computers, we will add moreBJ Keiferhttp://www.myspace.com/travelingmarmotsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-7121685593755864642007-09-18T00:40:00.000-04:002007-09-18T00:40:00.000-04:00It’s a tigon not a tion. The liger actually looks ...It’s a tigon not a tion. The liger actually looks rather chubby and lazy, not liek the killing machine that nat’l geographic has it pegged as. Genomic imprinting might be why it’s so big and I had a big description of how right here until IE crashed. Here’s the wiki anyways <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting</a>Diananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-17381433329255288362007-08-20T22:28:00.000-04:002007-08-20T22:28:00.000-04:00As noted above, it certainly appears more likely t...As noted above, it certainly appears more likely to be a prairie dog — a creature to whom the term “groundhog” is sometimes overbroadly applied — than a chipmunk, but it is certainly not a groundhog in the more narrow sense of the term, reserved for Punxsutawney Phil and his burly, almost badger-like relatives, also known as woodchucks — as in the Jagermeister video above and this informative Canadian video: <br><br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSOabHiY44" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSOabHiY44</a> <br><br>The 1900 book _Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers_ by John Burroughs, by the way, contains this partly insulting yet almost Shakespearean passage in the chapter on “The Woodchuck”:<br><br>“In form and movement the woodchuck is not captivating. His body is heavy and flabby. Indeed, such a flaccid, fluid, pouchy carcass I have never before seen. It has absolutely no muscular tension or rigidity, but is as baggy and shaky as a skin filled with water. The legs of the woodchuck are short and stout, and made for digging rather than running. The latter operation he performs by short leaps, his belly scarcely clearing the ground. For a short distance he can make very good time, but he seldom trusts himself far from his hole, and, when surprised in that predicament, makes little effort to escape, but, grating his teeth, looks danger squarely in the face…Dig one out during hibernation (Audubon did so), and you find it a mere inanimate ball, that suffers itself to be moved and rolled about without showing signs of wakening. But bring it by the fire, and it presently unrolls and opens its eyes, and crawls feebly about, and if left to itself will seek some dark hole or corner, roll itself up again, and resume its former condition.”Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-39973847508601146382007-08-20T22:06:00.000-04:002007-08-20T22:06:00.000-04:00The “dramatic chipmunk” may actually be a groundho...The “dramatic chipmunk” may actually be a groundhog.Meredithhttp://piecesofflair.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-91281000330598619012007-08-20T16:56:00.000-04:002007-08-20T16:56:00.000-04:00Sorry about that. As compensation, here’s a clip ...Sorry about that. As compensation, here’s a clip of a huge snake vomiting up a hippopotamus (and let me add that if I ever start a techno band — which would probably please the idiot living in the apartment directly above me — I will call it Hypnopotamus and its symbol will be a hippo head with a big spinning hypno-disc behind it): <br><br><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=VryQDsx5Ad8&mode=related&search=" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=VryQDsx5Ad8&mode=related&search=</a>Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-15666857280016109892007-08-19T19:01:00.000-04:002007-08-19T19:01:00.000-04:00Now now!My “that destroyed my childhood” comment w...Now now!<br><br>My “that destroyed my childhood” comment was in reference to The Neverending Story, not a webtoon that appeared during my college years!<br><br>I’m young, but I ain’t THAT young!Red Staplerhttp://meandmyredstapler.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com