A Bunny With a Pancake on Its Head

Opinion Journal Online ^ | 11-26-04 | James Taranto

[airborne]

[KJC1]

Ecckkkhhh.
I'll just say that from the waist down, this guy will never be confused with Cheney. (sorry, couldn't resist!)

[Choose Ye This Day]

I prefer the kitty-on-Spidey action to the monkey-robot love.

[Dutchgirl]

Are you sure its a guy?

[Lazamataz]

Thank G-d. It's back up in Breaking News.

Now we'll keep our reputation as being the most cutting-edge news source in.... the world.

[KJC1]

Good point! It is a rather androgenous moonbat upon further inspection.

[Dutchgirl]

I remember the monkey picture from one of my high school sociology textbooks. There is another robot near the monkey that secretes milk, but it prefers the one that does not provide anything but is snuggly.

Monkey raised without a mom. Sad. Cat humping Spidey...funny...cat accidentally shaved into humiliation...priceless.

[Raycpa]

But I still don't know what "hugh" is, other than a misspelling of "huge." :(

The meaning comes when you decode the letters with your secret VRWC decoder ring.

[Mamzelle]

the bunny's real name is Nancy Quetar.

[longshadow]

I saw this as well. Although I've seen that Bunny posted on a number of threads, can someone please explain the derivation?

The bunny pic comes from a website of a guy in Japan. He discovered his rabbit had an uncanny ability to balance objects on its head, and took many photos of the rabbit posing with various foreign objects perched on it's head and posted them to his web site. Somebody stumbled upon the pic, and thought it was so funny that they began passing around the URL of the pancake/rabbit pic, and the rest is history.

For the record, the rabbit's name was "Oolong," and appears to be a Dutch breed, and Oolong went to the happy no-hunting grounds a few years ago after a long (by rabbit standards) life with his master in Japan.

"And now you know the rest of the story...."

[Tench_Coxe]

boorkmark

[Imaverygooddriver]

I have no idea what you are talking about....

So here is a cheese eating surrender monkey

 

[RightWingAtheist]

I like yours better.

[Aracelis]

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but this image is not about a monkey "humping" a robot.

This image is from a classic experiment conducted by Harry Harlow in 1958 on the subject of love, maternal bonding and socialization of infant monkeys.

The monkeys were given two surrogate mothers to bond with: a wire monkey which held a food source, and a cloth-covered surrogate without food. The young monkeys fed from the wire surrogate, but clung to the cloth-covered surrogate for comfort.

The experiment was important for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that it provided evidence that maternal bonding and nurturing is essential for the emotional health of the infant. Without this interaction, the infant monkeys became social misfits.

For those interested, you can read more about this experiment at: The Psychology of Love

[Tijeras_Slim]

I know that... the experiment is actually a family joke. My Mom was very skinny when I was a kid, and she called herself "The Wire Mother." Tells you what my family's sense of humor is like, probably why I fit in here. :)

[Aracelis]

You were very fortunate to grow up in a household with an intelligent and well-informed mother. Certainly not a "wire mother". :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thank you.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Oh, that is horrible! Poor kitty! He's fixin' to crawl under a rock and die.

[Squantos]

LOL......I think Dale on King of the Hill tried the same failed experiment with cockroaches !

Stay safe ........:o)

[JOE6PAK]

THIS IS HUGH!