Little Miss WobblePants

by Meg on June 29, 2006

Wobble… wobble… wobble…

[Mom's nose bonk]

Wobblewobblewobble

Snort

Steady, Vanessa H., steady! (And thanks for reporting from the MN State Fair…)

{ 126 comments }

1 Theo 06.29.06 at 2:46 pm

We need a CO Pettin Zoo.

2 kelly 06.29.06 at 2:46 pm

Sweet!

3 Melissa 06.29.06 at 2:46 pm

First comment? Yay!
Cute little lamby.

4 Maxton 06.29.06 at 2:46 pm

Sheep.. :3

5 Theo 06.29.06 at 2:48 pm

[SCOWL.]

6 brownamazon 06.29.06 at 2:53 pm

Woollies! I love how when lambs nurse, their tails spin around like propellers. The faster they suck, the faster the spin… How sheep farmers get anything done all day is beyond me.

7 Theo 06.29.06 at 2:54 pm

“How sheep farmers get anything done all day is beyond me.”
[snicker]
Yeah, I saw that movie too.

8 DH 06.29.06 at 2:55 pm

That was a Snort heard around the world, Meg.

; )

9 jaypo 06.29.06 at 2:55 pm

SIXTH COMMENT, YAY YIPPEEE, WOOHOO, WOOT WOOT!!!!!!

teho be passed out from grumpiness by now!! heehee

cute lamby-pie. :-)

10 DH 06.29.06 at 2:55 pm

That was a Snort heard around the world, Meg.

; )

11 Courtney 06.29.06 at 3:01 pm

Does anybody else have an urge to brush the hay and stuff off of the momma sheep?

Just me, then?

They are very cute. :)

12 ceebs 06.29.06 at 3:03 pm

I want a close up shot of that sweet little smiley face!

13 jaypo 06.29.06 at 3:08 pm

Bebe’s pink nose–so sweet.

14 The Housewife 06.29.06 at 3:21 pm

Little lamby!! So precious!!

15 A thinker 06.29.06 at 3:24 pm

Leggedy sheep!

In Toronto, I lived very close to the only farm left in the city, Riverdale. Every year, baby lambies were born and it was a big event to go and see them. This reminds me of that…

16 christina s. 06.29.06 at 3:24 pm

i love the fuzzy nose in the background on the left, too. everyone looks so soft and squishy! wish teleportation was invented. i’d totally teleport over there right now! (especially because i’m at work now – blar)

17 MN-Cutie 06.29.06 at 3:26 pm

Hey waitaminute…the MN State Fair isn’t until August! Must be from last year…?

18 tm 06.29.06 at 3:27 pm

the college town i live in had a sheep farm not too far away from my apartment. i have had to be dragged away from said farm and the adorable lambiekins by my roommates. they are so precious. and fluuffay

19 Amy 06.29.06 at 3:29 pm

Hehe, I love sheep. Always confused, and always both terrified yet extremely relieved when they’re sheared in the summer.

Hey, when are you going to post the pics of my kittens I submitted two months ago? XD

20 Boschka 06.29.06 at 3:30 pm

OMG…falling over dead from the cuteness factor

snorgles the lil pink nosey

21 StormCat 06.29.06 at 3:31 pm

Courtney, I didn’t want to brush off the grass, but I did want to scratch behind those adorable ears!!! Both Mom and Baby’s!!!

22 Tony James 06.29.06 at 3:34 pm

T-oh – that only applies if they’re Welsh… ;)

We used to watch the spring lambs when I was a kid – always funny to watch them run up to the “wrong” ewe and try to feed, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. The tail-spinning thing is vital – it powers the lamb’s motor, which operates much like those rubber-band powered planes. When they stop suckling they run and hop all over the place, because they’ve been wound up.

…oh, mint sauce and rosemary. Sorry, had to be done.

23 brownamazon 06.29.06 at 3:39 pm

Theo: The minute I posted that, I thought, “damn, someone’s going to make a Brokeback joke.” I was not disappointed.

24 brownamazon 06.29.06 at 3:43 pm

ToJa: reminds me of a very lewd joke involving an Welshman, an Englishman, a sheep and a pair of Wellie boots…

25 weasel_tea_party 06.29.06 at 3:47 pm

“Look Mom! I’m standing! I’m standing!” “Yes dear.” *bonk*

26 Tony James 06.29.06 at 3:47 pm

ToJa? Sounds a little too closer to “toe-jam”…
Yes, then there’s the one about “Are you shearing?” “No, get your own.”

27 ShelleyTambo 06.29.06 at 3:51 pm

MN-Cutie–I was wondering too. S’posed to fly out to MN to visit the family and go to the fair in late August and was wondering if the tickets are now worthless (can visit the family anytime, state fair comes but once a year).

brownamazon–you can’t leave us hanging like that.

28 brownamazon 06.29.06 at 3:59 pm

Shelley: trust me– *not* suitable for a family-friendly site ;)

(plus, it’s funnier in Welsh).

29 Ryan Blackhawke 06.29.06 at 4:00 pm

SHEEEEPIES!!!! I wub da sheepies! My face is swollen to the point of not seeing but I am smiling on the inside seeing a sheepie (major oral surgery +2 days).

30 ShelleyTambo 06.29.06 at 4:05 pm

brownamazon–Hmph. I’ll just have to hope that my Welsh friends know it.

PS–As someone else once commented (I think in the whole cats ‘n racks/kittehs n’ tittehs commentroversy), who said this site is family friendly? All it says is that it posts cute pics…;)

31 Lizzy 06.29.06 at 4:18 pm

Aww, cute widdle sheepy’s takin his first worbly steps! Soon I will knit with him. :)

… Is it weird that when I see a sheared sheep, all I can think about is knitting it a sweater out of its own wool?

32 belle 06.29.06 at 4:25 pm

YAY! I lurve lambs! Baaaaaaaahhhhh.

33 Theo 06.29.06 at 4:32 pm

Lizzy — like Sean in “A Close Shave,” yes!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38323000/jpg/_38323541_sean150.jpg

34 Lauri 06.29.06 at 4:36 pm

Hehe, you never disappoint, Theo….as soon as the “first comment” comment appeared I gleefully scrolled down to find your reaction!

Yaaaaaay lambiepies! Remember Mareseatoatsanddoeseatoatsandlittlelambseativy?

35 Lauri 06.29.06 at 4:36 pm

Akiddleativytoowouldntyou?

36 Theo 06.29.06 at 4:43 pm
37 zelda 06.29.06 at 4:51 pm

Yippee! Minnesota State Fair RAWKS!
I always visit the animal barns (timing my visit around the LLAMAS) – and I give them all pets and talk to them. Then I get sad, knowing most go right to the slaughterhouses. (Er, sorry for the downer.)

38 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 4:52 pm

When Edward Gray in 1914 said that the lambs were going out all over Europe, was he referring to some sort of pre-war Continental County Fair?

39 Theo 06.29.06 at 5:06 pm

Aubrey — When Billy Joel in 1976 said he’d seen the lights go out on Broadway, did Edward Gray turn over in his grave?

40 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 5:09 pm

T:
I’m not too sure, but it stands to reason. I know that I did whenever he opened his mouth, and that was odd, me not being dead and that.

41 Theo 06.29.06 at 5:19 pm

[tempted here to quote lyrics about how some people cannot handle pressure]
[biting tongue]

42 Arvay 06.29.06 at 5:27 pm

How cute! That is not baaaaaaaaaad!

43 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 5:38 pm

Yeah, that picture has me bleat.

44 Arvay 06.29.06 at 5:56 pm

It’s a bleating shame they ever have to grow up…

45 A thinker 06.29.06 at 6:02 pm

oi. The puns are heavy in here today, they are…

46 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 6:02 pm

Maybe they will keep their inner lamb, God woolin’.

47 J. Bo 06.29.06 at 6:06 pm

Ewe guys kill me…

48 A thinker 06.29.06 at 6:08 pm

OK, now I feel sheepish about pointing that out.

(had to join the party. Not normally my chosen form of humour.)

49 J. Bo 06.29.06 at 6:11 pm

And don’t you love it when the little lambs just spring straight up in the air for no apparent reason, like they’ve got tiny little jets in their feet? That cracks me up.

50 cuteness lover 06.29.06 at 6:15 pm

I love their ears, they kinda remind me of bunny ears. I wish they could some how put sound effects on here. I’d love to hear some bleating while I look at the photo.

51 Amy 06.29.06 at 6:17 pm

…You know, I never fail to be baffled by the level of corniness some of you people put into these comments. It makes me want to stab myself in the eye socket with a rusty spork.

52 Amy 06.29.06 at 6:18 pm

I do agree though, lamb-rocket-feet are indeed very cute. <3

53 Arvay 06.29.06 at 6:19 pm

Amy, there is no need for you to be driven maaaaaaaaaaaaad.

54 Amy 06.29.06 at 6:20 pm

ARRHH no! Gah! *dies*

55 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 6:21 pm

Rest a-sheared, Amy: we mean no harm. And there are better ewe-ses for a rusty spork.

56 Theo 06.29.06 at 6:25 pm

Four legs good, sheep puns baaaad.
(C’mon Amy, let’s hoof it…)

57 Amy 06.29.06 at 6:27 pm

*sigh* I give up.

Oh, and if you want to see a REALLY cute hippo, go to this link and scroll down to the bottom:

http://www.reign.cc/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4788

Um….but don’t read the post that goes with it….you’re warned…

58 Arvay 06.29.06 at 6:28 pm

Amy, we’d stop if we kn’ewe for shear that you wooldn’t miss it!

59 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 6:34 pm

Ha! That’s right – Theo, Amy: go ahead and cotton onto each other!

60 Theo 06.29.06 at 6:38 pm

Amy — here’s just the baby hippo pic, sans forum…
http://img317.imageshack.us/img317/2170/ds9xo.png

61 Arvay 06.29.06 at 6:38 pm

I’m sure you’d actually feel fleeced if we quit punning; you’d miss me-rino! Hey! A RHINO!

(Whoo–that was a stretch, even for me!)

62 Arvay 06.29.06 at 6:39 pm

I love dee hippo. I wanna squish and pinch his cheeks. :)

63 Amy 06.29.06 at 6:41 pm

Thanks Aubrey, I tried to find the link to the original photo. Hehe.

64 Theo 06.29.06 at 6:44 pm

Aubrey, eh… always stealing my thunder… ;)

65 AmyH 06.29.06 at 6:45 pm

I raised lambs for 4-H every year. I would cry and cry and cry after the fair. Then a few weeks later I would get a check in the mail and feel much better. Some kids made money for college by working in food service, I was in food production! (Baaaaaa-d joke, I know).

Now my neices are raising lambs – in two days I’ll be in Michigan with all the cows and sheep again! Whee! Cows! And li’l lambie fluffers! Luv the sheepers – you should see them when they take off at a run and then SPROING SPROING SPROING they go!!!

66 Damien 06.29.06 at 6:48 pm

Not to upset anyone, but the white thing on the bottom-right of the pic with the yellow dot is another lamb with a spot of runny poop on its butt. Yuck :) And yes, I lived on a farm for the first 20 years of my life.
(ps LOVE THE SITE!!!!!!1!)

67 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 6:53 pm

“always stealing my thunder…”

Whenever I’m acloud to, T.

68 jaypo 06.29.06 at 7:10 pm

Well, hay, I was just “roving” around thi’shear place an’all the knitpickin’ with baaahhd puns an’ all an’ thought to myself, STOP.it.now, Self.

whew. I think it’s over now.

69 E. Collison 06.29.06 at 7:13 pm

Ewe knew what ewe were getting into, jaypo…

70 A thinker 06.29.06 at 7:31 pm

oh no. it’s never over, jaypo. not while we have Aubrey around…

71 ceebs 06.29.06 at 7:34 pm

If a sheep runs away…
…is it on the lam(b)?

72 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 7:35 pm

We have many ewenique characters here, thinkie.

73 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 7:36 pm

ceebs:
Yes, to be apprehended by the Fleece Police.

74 Theo 06.29.06 at 7:39 pm

Thinker — have you met Arvay?
We cuteologits will never want for puns.

(above spelling semi-intentional)

75 ceebs 06.29.06 at 7:39 pm

or maybe Ram-bo

76 A thinker 06.29.06 at 7:49 pm

aagh!! (runs away with hands over ears)

77 Tony James 06.29.06 at 7:52 pm

If mommy sheeps are moving house, do they hire a ewe-haul?
And if two insects run off together, is it called an antelope?

78 ceebs 06.29.06 at 7:54 pm

If those two ants are forbidden to run off together, is that a “cantelope”?

79 Tony James 06.29.06 at 7:56 pm

Do baby monkeys sleep in apricots?

80 Theo 06.29.06 at 7:57 pm

How did we get from sheep to fruit?

81 A thinker 06.29.06 at 7:59 pm

Teho, say it with an English accent, thus: “APE-ricots.”

(sorry, have tons and tons of English friends, so I got that, Teej, but many of our this-side-of-the-pond friends won’t).

82 Tony James 06.29.06 at 8:00 pm

We cleared the plates for the main course while you were away, T-oh ;)

83 Tony James 06.29.06 at 8:01 pm

Tink – that’s for sorting that one out – as soon as I posted it I realised that there may be confusion, but figured it could just be a private joke among us limeys ;)

84 Theo 06.29.06 at 8:02 pm

Hay now. That’s the last straw.
[glares balefully]

85 ceebs 06.29.06 at 8:02 pm

Sheep to fruit…there’s a Brokeback-type joke in there somewhere…
:-$ aaagh!

86 A thinker 06.29.06 at 8:02 pm

:-D

87 E. Collison 06.29.06 at 8:03 pm

thinker – ??? I thought that was the murrican pronunciation. Honest, that’s what I learned growing up. It was the Oxbridge types on BBC shows who said “APP-ricot,” not us’ns.

88 Theo 06.29.06 at 8:03 pm

XD

89 A thinker 06.29.06 at 8:04 pm

ooh. well, dunno about that, E.C.

90 ceebs 06.29.06 at 8:04 pm

I’m with E-Colli, I say Ape-ricots, & I ain’t no limey bass-turd! :-P

91 E. Collison 06.29.06 at 8:05 pm

My educated guess is that there’s more than one way to say it here in the US (not “it” per se; YKWWIM!).

So I got TJ’s pun all wrong at 1st because I was thinking “app,” not “ape.”

Grrrr.

92 SandyCat 06.29.06 at 8:09 pm

I just wanna say WOOT for the MN state fair, where everything is fried, on a stick, or fried on a stick. *sniff sniff* I miss my state.

93 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 8:09 pm

Hey. Let’s call the whole thing off.

94 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 8:12 pm

Sandy:
I was referring to the pronunciation soiree going on. Don’t call your state fair off!

95 Tony James 06.29.06 at 8:15 pm

No Sheep ’til Hammersmith – Motorhead
Please Refleece Me – Engelbert Humperdink
Flock n’Roll (Part 2) – Gary Glitter
Folsom Prison Ewes – Johnny Cash
The Power of Floof – Jennifer Rush

96 E. Collison 06.29.06 at 8:19 pm

Aubrey, I was thinking of that song, too; also of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers roller-skating. (In the film where they sing it.)

“Grrr” was meant as a bluff, like a certain lagomorph’s play-”growling.”

97 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 8:42 pm

Singing, dancing, bunnies – reminds me of the old Bunby Berkeley productions.

98 E. Collison 06.29.06 at 8:57 pm

[::moans of pain::]

99 J. Bo 06.29.06 at 8:59 pm

Question:

If moose have antlers, do ants have mooslers?

Discuss.

100 Nickole 06.29.06 at 9:04 pm

All this punning is streching my English capabilities to the limit – and further!

This site really is an education, but it’s 11 PM over here, and I’d better go to bed before my head explodes…

101 Tony James 06.29.06 at 9:09 pm

J.Bo – sorry, I have no i-deer.

102 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 9:50 pm

That’s right TJ, go on and pass the buck.

But now, all I fawn to do is have my lunch!

103 E. Collison 06.29.06 at 10:07 pm

eye hopes ewe had a graze time, A.

104 Theo 06.29.06 at 10:10 pm

Aubrey — so did you actually go get some food, or were you just ruminating?

Nickole — better get some sleep, it’s pasture bedtime.

105 Tony James 06.29.06 at 10:13 pm

Aubrey – which reminds me…
A doe staggers out of the woods, her coat dishevelled and matted, grass stains on her knees…
“That’s the last time I do that for two bucks…”

106 Theo 06.29.06 at 10:18 pm
107 Tony James 06.29.06 at 10:40 pm

Tish and Fie, Mr. Theo – ’tis only for the smut and innuendo that thou comest here, admit it!

108 Aubrey 06.29.06 at 10:47 pm

TJMax, did you say in-ewenndo?

109 Redzilla 06.29.06 at 10:50 pm

I, too, would post a sheep joke, but I fear being lamb-basted by those with delicate sensi-billy-ties. Oops, guess that was a goat pun.

110 J. Bo 06.29.06 at 11:37 pm

I really wish drew and Natalie would put that one on a t-shirt; don’t you, Theo?

P.S. I never would have found CO if drew hadn’t mentioned it in his blog!

111 jaypo 06.30.06 at 12:15 am

OMGAWD, I just had dinner and am ready to barf it up I’m laughing so hard!! You guys are so funny, the whole batch a youse. [intentionally NOT spelt "ewes]

112 Aubrey 06.30.06 at 12:36 am

Jaypo:
Glad you find all this so am-ewesing!

113 jaypo 06.30.06 at 12:40 am

[runs far away with pea soup coming out nose]

114 ceebs 06.30.06 at 1:01 am

sp”ewe”ing pea soup, ewe mean?

115 jaypo 06.30.06 at 1:25 am

From sheep to fruit
to sp*ewe*ing soup,
0h, Sanity, be gone!
No, wait! Come baahhk,
and take me tewe,
I mutton be alone!

The puns are bad,
the doggerel,
the sheep n’ewes n’such.
I’ll find my whey, alone
and well,
Thank ye very much.

116 Aubrey 06.30.06 at 2:23 am

Ewe-inspiring, Jaypo.

And was that Anderson’s Pea Sewep?

117 ElfOwl, B.S., M.A., I.W.T.F.M. 06.30.06 at 2:23 am

Bravi, Bravi, Bravisimi!

I really miss you guys while I’m at work. By the time I get here, the jokes have all been told and there’s naught left for me to add.

118 the honourable Gladys Anstruther 06.30.06 at 9:51 am

What do you call a sheep tied to a lampost in Wales?

A leisure centre.

By the way the posh limey pronunciation of Apricot is Ap ri co

119 GloriaAnderson 06.30.06 at 12:08 pm

Wool you guys please stop!

120 Subhangi 06.30.06 at 1:35 pm

Baaroo?

121 jaypo 06.30.06 at 1:38 pm

Elfie, what does IWTFM mean?

122 Theo 06.30.06 at 1:53 pm

Jaypo — “I *Wrote* The Manual.”

It’s a variation of RTFM.

123 jaypo 06.30.06 at 2:06 pm

tankee, t-o.

124 abbynormal 06.30.06 at 3:58 pm

Is that a little donkey in the stall to the left?

125 aranaska 07.03.06 at 8:28 pm

i want a category for sheepies and lambs…i was born in new zealand where sheep outnumber people, and im a little attached…
it gives a real meaning to cute overload.

126 Zoe 09.13.06 at 2:08 am

!!!!!!!!!i saw those exactlambs!!!!!! SWEEET! I LOVE THAT PLACE! I TOOK PICS OF THEM TOO!

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