Arrrrrrivaderch!

by Meg on May 12, 2006

Heeey Maria! Wadda you wanna cook for? Let’sa go-ah to thee Pizza-reea! [Jumps on the Vespa and kicks out foot]

Italian_scooter_ham

Ciao to-a Lincoln G.!

{ 73 comments }

1 oeimae 05.12.06 at 8:24 pm

heehee! I need ‘im to ride around my apt floors

2 judy 05.12.06 at 8:24 pm

the only thing more “awww!”-worthy would be if someone made him a little helmet. =]

3 LilyPad 05.12.06 at 8:25 pm

I luuurve this one….he’s sooo romantic!

4 E. Collison 05.12.06 at 8:28 pm

How funny! The tiny scooter is grrreat. [In Tony the tiger voice.]

5 najjie 05.12.06 at 8:29 pm

Um… what is that?

6 Tony James 05.12.06 at 8:30 pm

When he heard that speedy Mexican mice were getting all the action, Luigi Hamsteroni decided to take matters into his own paws.

7 Aurhora 05.12.06 at 8:31 pm

This reminds me of the book ‘The Mouse and the Motorcycle’. I read that like, 10 years ago, lol

8 midnight rider what rides at midnight 05.12.06 at 8:31 pm

VespaHammy! wheeee!!!!

9 jaypo 05.12.06 at 8:31 pm

Hey!! Whatsa mattah fa you, makin’ wisecracks about us paisani, huh?! Is it cuz itsa “guinea” pig, zat it?! Cuz if is, I’ma gonna hafta rip up yer puny little two-wheelr there…

10 fate 05.12.06 at 8:32 pm

if he had a helmet and some goggles he would be the perfect pet gainster!

11 mariser 05.12.06 at 8:33 pm

when da Vespa hits your eye
like a big pizza pie
that’s Guinea-Pig-ore!

Capisce?

12 A thinker 05.12.06 at 8:34 pm

Oh yeah. Need for speed! What could be better than a hamster riding a motorcycle.

And this immediately made me, too, think of The Mouse and the Motorcycle. All he needs is a ping-pong ball helmet padded with a cotton ball!

13 Aly 05.12.06 at 8:36 pm

Heeeeee. Awesome.

14 angela 05.12.06 at 8:37 pm

Too CUTE!

15 constance 05.12.06 at 8:51 pm

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

the cute! the cute!

16 E. Collison 05.12.06 at 8:52 pm

I keep expecting Giulietta Massina to step out from the shadows and hop onto that teeny Vespa….!

17 Aubrey 05.12.06 at 8:58 pm

Finally a new Rock Opera from The Hams…

“Can you see the real squee
Can ya?
Can ya?”

18 Zelda 05.12.06 at 8:58 pm

Can I hitch a ride?

19 ariel 05.12.06 at 9:00 pm

groan.
that caption is cheezier than papa john’s.

20 TheLuna 05.12.06 at 9:11 pm

Tiny pink foot alert! (with a matching nose, no less)

I thought of The Mouse and the Motorcycle too! Great minds…

21 Zelda 05.12.06 at 9:13 pm

AYYY, PAISON!

22 Zelda 05.12.06 at 9:24 pm

(or is it “paisan”? I dunno, I’m mostly Norwegian)

23 jaypo 05.12.06 at 9:28 pm

Heeyy, paisana mia!

Paisano = country fellow
Paisana = country wench
Paisan’ = colloquial

I’m half Cajun. Other half Calabrese. Are you in MN by any chance?

24 mmoptopmouse 05.12.06 at 9:29 pm

not a tiny scooter but a REALLY BIG hamster..

25 abeth 05.12.06 at 9:31 pm

a possible candidate for The Coveted Cuteness Trifecta™????

#19 – Dainty paws
#15 – Small ear to head ratio
#6 – Mimic humans

26 E. Collison 05.12.06 at 9:42 pm

And more or less “a thing, with a smaller version of [a] thing…” I know I’m bending the rule a bit, but that little Vespa is *it.*

27 Beauregard 05.12.06 at 9:57 pm

abeth, you are so right. And once again Meg, outstanding captions!

28 AuntieMame 05.12.06 at 10:02 pm

Hee! His hair even looks windblown.

And I see I’m not the only one who thought of the Mouse and the Motorcycle!

29 Jan Spencer 05.12.06 at 10:05 pm

Zelda, to elaborate a little more on your post there.. Hitch a Ride from Boston:

“Gonna hitch a ride,
head for the other side,
Leave it all behind;
Never change my mind.
Gonna sail away,
Sunlight’s another day,
Freedom on my mind,
Carry me away for the last time!?

30 A thinker 05.12.06 at 10:25 pm

E. Collison, E. Collison!!!

Sorry, I know this is totally off-topic. But I couldn’t wait for another bunny post.

I have found… tum ta te tum…

The Rabbit of Approval!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2662/1681/320/rabbitofapproval.jpg

No joke. This was on some organic pasta I bought. Maybe he can be used for *approval* of things that the Disapproving Rabbits have nothing to say about.

31 Svana 05.12.06 at 10:58 pm

Omg… CUTE .. “D”D

32 Svana 05.12.06 at 10:58 pm

Omg… CUTE .. “D”D

33 Aubrey 05.12.06 at 11:21 pm

Hi. My name is Aubrey, and I’ve been noticing a lot of typos in my posts lately, and for that I apologize.

Now – on to this Bunny Approval thing. My shampoo also has a stamp of the bunnage, to show that the product was not tested on animals.

http://www.leapingbunny.org

34 A thinker 05.12.06 at 11:27 pm

Re Aubrey: yes, I’ve seen those too. This one was funny because it is the polar opposite of E. Collison’s frequently-referenced Disapproving Rabbits:

http://www.birdchick.com/adventures/rabbit/index.html

(apologies if you’ve seen them before)

35 ♥'s G.D. &animals 05.12.06 at 11:37 pm

dat ees da cootest weetle ham-ham dat i’ve evah seen [on a scootah]

36 Theo 05.12.06 at 11:38 pm

I’m with Najjie here (waaaay up the comment list) — is it a hamster? Chinchilla? Ur-Gerbil? Furby? Some kind of frankenbastard hybrid rodent??

Jan S — I used to like Boston too.
Let us never speak of this again.

37 ♥'s G.D. &animals 05.12.06 at 11:38 pm

i love to use things not tested on animals i swear i was glowing with happieness when i read that my vitamin e cream was not tested on animals

38 ♥'s G.D. &animals 05.12.06 at 11:41 pm

i think its a hamster it doesn’t look gerbil-ish defenetly not a chinchiwwa!
http://www.lovechinchillas.com

39 ♥'s G.D. &animals 05.12.06 at 11:42 pm

http://www.lovechinchillas.com/ there now it aughta work

40 Theo 05.12.06 at 11:48 pm

So… ‘taint no baby possum, neither?

41 AuntieMame 05.12.06 at 11:50 pm

Never speak of Boston again?

My favorite rock band EVAR?

Shoot, I’m proud of my 70s rock obsessions!

42 Aubrey 05.12.06 at 11:51 pm

No, E.T., sorry A.T., I’ve never seen/read these before, and I nearly snapped a collarbone laughing.

43 A thinker 05.13.06 at 12:02 am

*tee hee* :-D

44 Judy B 05.13.06 at 12:15 am

‘Tis a long haired syrian hamster (sometimes known as a teddy bear hamster).
I want to give him a peanut for being so cute!

45 Jan Spencer 05.13.06 at 2:26 am

AuntieMame…you go girl! Be proud of your classic rock roots! Theo…face it, you still catch yourself listening to them in the mini van, when you hit the scan button on your radio…and it stops on “Foreplay/Longtime”…come on, Theo, you can tell us, it’s alright… ;)

Back to the cute picture, I have no clue what kind of creature this is, but he’s got some stylin’ hair do!

46 jaypo 05.13.06 at 2:31 am

“Disapproving Rabbits”

Because I just lose it whenever I look at their dour little faces, I had to write to birdchick to tell her how much I love those pictures. Her response:

“Hello,

We always though she was part Winston Churchill.

Thank you for checking the site, and it means a lot that you get some pleasure from it. My husband thought I was nuts to put up a disapproving rabbits page, but I knew there were other rabbit people out there that would know our pain.

Sharon Stiteler
http://www.birdchick.com
Minneapolis, MN”

47 Aubrey 05.13.06 at 2:34 am

Thanks for posting this, Jaypo. I immediately emailed the site to my co-workers, but haven’t received a response yet. I think they disapproved.

48 jaypo 05.13.06 at 2:34 am

P.S. “She” meaning Cinnamon, the most disapproving of all. (I asked Sharon if Cinnamon was a secret member of the House of Lords.)

49 A thinker 05.13.06 at 2:36 am

LOL. Cinnamon certainly does carry a most hefty disapprove on her.

50 jaypo 05.13.06 at 2:37 am

Full context is I emailed other bunny friends–and Sharon–with this question. Do you think Cinnamon is:
a) part mule
b) related to Bullwinkle
c) a secret member of the H. of L.
d) all of the above.

The consensus was d).

51 jaypo 05.13.06 at 2:40 am

Did you check out p.2?! Click on “the disapproval continues” link in the text. Hysterical!! Honestly, I just crack up every time I see them. :-p

52 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 2:42 am

“No joke. This was on some organic pasta I bought. Maybe he can be used for *approval* of things that the Disapproving Rabbits have nothing to say about.”

Yeah, they sell this brand at the store where I usually shop – if you look at the different products, you’ll see that the logo has a lot of variations. And this is mos def the Rabbit of Approval!

jaypo, I’m on d,) too.

53 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 2:43 am

Latte is also *extremely* Disapproving.

54 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 2:45 am

Also, please note that I am now wearing the official “Brklyn Bunny” t-shirt:

http://www.dresserjohnson.com/bklynbunny.html

55 jaypo 05.13.06 at 2:48 am

Bryklyn Bunny is awesome! Did you check out the buncam?

56 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 2:50 am

Honestly, I’m more interested in their t-shirt! I wore it while shopping earlier this evening and got some *very* strange looks. (It’s like the rabbit that ate NYC….)

57 A thinker 05.13.06 at 3:08 am

It is rather horror-movie-ish. I imagine creepy background music playing while the rabbit’s gigantic head slowly appears over the horizon and advances on the unsuspecting city.

58 jaypo 05.13.06 at 3:12 am

Yes, very gothic looking with those high arches/ears…

59 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 3:33 am

It’s the Brooklyn Bridge’s arches, actually – but the Bklyn Bunny is standing in front of it and…

60 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 3:37 am

A thinker, that logo you linked to is far and away my fave of all those Annie’s products – and I had never seen it before. (The packages are more or less on bunny-nose level where I shop…)

61 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 3:39 am

Bunnycam fans, did you know that Roebling the Brooklyn bunny has his own MySpace page? – http://myspace.com/bklynbunny

62 s 05.13.06 at 1:32 pm

tee hee.
how sophisicated

63 Theo 05.13.06 at 2:55 pm

“‘Tis a long haired syrian hamster (sometimes known as a teddy bear hamster)”
Ah, OK thanks. Well-chosen name for it, too.
———-
“Never speak of Boston again? My favorite rock band EVAR?”
Oh dear oh dear oh dear… close my eyes, slip away…
———-
“Sharon Stiteler, http://www.birdchick.com, Minneapolis, MN [Disapproving Rabbits]“
All right! Yay w00t Twin Cities!

64 A thinker 05.13.06 at 3:06 pm

“Bunny nose level”

tee-hee!

65 E. Collison 05.13.06 at 9:45 pm

They really are! I’d never have noticed them unless I’d looked at the two lowest shelves…

66 A thinker 05.14.06 at 12:33 am

That’s a wonderful description :-)

67 Wade 05.14.06 at 7:25 am

I just can’t help it, this reminds me of my backpacking trip across Europe when I was 17 when Roma won the Europe Cup and everybody was riding around on their Vespa Scooters holding flags behind them screaming, “Forza Roma!” I can just picture this little hammie yellin’ that out during the celebration! =o)

68 Daiisy 05.15.06 at 7:42 am

iyerrrr omg how sweet!!!

ooooo i want one!!!

daiisy x

69 Zelda 05.15.06 at 1:46 pm

Jaypo – from 2:28 post (I’m half Cajun. Other half Calabrese. Are you in MN by any chance?)

Oh yaah, I’m Minnesotan! Uff da, how’d ya guess?

70 poswall 06.05.06 at 8:36 pm

my god!! antoine is famous!!

add him on myspace!!

http://www.myspace.com/antoinethehamster

rob :)

71 Davide 06.12.06 at 3:20 pm

I’m italian…it’s “arrivedrci”, not arrivaderch !

72 chacha 06.14.06 at 9:54 pm

long-haired syrian hamster, eh? still looks like an opossum to moi. however, the vespa ROCKS. Arrivederci,paisanos!

73 Anna L 08.07.06 at 7:12 am

And this was actually dedicated to me. *sigh* xoxo

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