“Ehn!”ch-worm

by Meg on October 9, 2006

OK, you People are TOO DAMN FUNNY. I love opening the submissions mail to find shizzle like this. Too funny. Extra points if you can NAME THIS BOOK!

Check out Señor InchwormPants:

Inching_1

"Ehn!"

Inching_2

"Ehn-eh-ehn" [Reading as he goes along]

Inching_3

Seriously brilliant job, Sherrie G. :D

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1 Jessica 10.09.06 at 5:16 pm

That’s Pride and Prejudice.

2 Charlie 10.09.06 at 5:17 pm

Pride and Prejudice :)

3 Allison 10.09.06 at 5:17 pm

Pride and Prejudice indeed! (Jane Austen)

4 Maggie 10.09.06 at 5:17 pm

Well, it would have been a bigger challenge to guess if the name wasn’t printed at the top of the pages…still awfully cute!

5 Kathryn 10.09.06 at 5:17 pm

It’s pride and prejudice!! And it’s also adorable and teensy!

6 kent 10.09.06 at 5:18 pm

Pride and predjudice!!!

that is awefully cute,

now that I have looked I see that I have been beaten to the punch.

7 Netherland Dwarf rabbit, owner!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 10.09.06 at 5:19 pm

A real live book worm! btw…eeeewwww!

8 Theo 10.09.06 at 5:25 pm

I see the “…e and Prejudice” on the page header… what I don’t see are the *pants*.
On Señor InchwormPants.
I’m so literal.

9 BlurpleBerry 10.09.06 at 5:26 pm

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I’m reading it right now!

10 NebraskaErin 10.09.06 at 5:29 pm

That is a very well-read inchy indeed.

I saw a fuzzy-wuzzy caterpillar yesterday. Yay!

11 huggybear 10.09.06 at 5:30 pm

pride and prejudice!

…for the tenth time…

:)

12 bee 10.09.06 at 5:30 pm

props to wormies

13 Mikeyfur 10.09.06 at 5:32 pm

So cute and funny. Please remove bookworm before closing book!

14 Theo 10.09.06 at 5:36 pm

Yes, no bookmark worms please.

15 La 10.09.06 at 5:44 pm

Pride and Prejudice!

16 SandyCat 10.09.06 at 5:45 pm

I’d say Pride and Prejudice, but you’d never know if I knew it or was cheating and looking at other answers. That “Ehn!” is really a strenuous one.

17 Sheri 10.09.06 at 5:46 pm

I’ll take “pride and prejudice” for 15, Alex.

18 AuntieMame 10.09.06 at 5:47 pm

Dadgummit, everyone else already beat me to the answer!

But I knew before I saw the last photo. “Bennett” and “Lydia” was what gave it away. :)

Please don’t squish the wormie!

19 david 10.09.06 at 5:53 pm

speaking of a permanent bookmark… bookstain….

20 falnfenix 10.09.06 at 5:56 pm

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewormie!!

21 kestrien 10.09.06 at 5:57 pm

OMG, this is a clear possible case of animal abuse. What if the book closes on the worm? What if the worm hates Austin? Someone call the Humane Society!

“Hello?”

“Yeah, do you rescue worms?”

“WORMS???”

“Yeah, there’s one in clear danger of death”

“Of course! We’ll have him ready for adoption in no time.”

22 Rich Fader 10.09.06 at 5:59 pm

Okay, that looks like something out of one of my old Richard Scarry books. Where’s Lowly’s little Alpine hat?

23 Pink 10.09.06 at 6:01 pm

I recognized that book as soon as I saw the names of the characters. Big Jane Austen fan.

Looooooooove the little inch worm. He looks like an exclamation point in the second shot.

24 Andréa C 10.09.06 at 6:04 pm

For a Jane Austen fan its not dificult. Pride and prejudice
Kisses from Brazil

25 Kate 10.09.06 at 6:05 pm

Jeez oh pete! That tiny little worm is probably the best thing I’ve ever associated with that book! Nooothin’ but a soap opera.

Either way, cute cute cute

26 Christine 10.09.06 at 6:06 pm

Hello! It’s Pride and Prejudice. All I had to see was “Mrs. Bennet” with one t to know.

27 Redzilla 10.09.06 at 6:08 pm

“It is a cute universally acknowledged that an inch worm in possession of a good book, must be in want of EHN!”

28 Tanyasss 10.09.06 at 6:09 pm

I hope the worm appeared somehwere on a passage about Bingley’s sisters.

29 Nater 10.09.06 at 6:10 pm

The name of the book? Easy. It’s obviously “The Lord of the Ring-worms.”

30 fate 10.09.06 at 6:12 pm

ewww! a wormy thats a bookworm!
you must have used a telescope to get that close

31 Susan 10.09.06 at 6:13 pm

A few choruses of Danny Kaye singing “Inchworm” swirling around my mind now. Thanks?

32 Subhangi 10.09.06 at 6:14 pm

LOL!!! ROFL … OMG, this is bloody INSANE!!!

33 mish 10.09.06 at 6:15 pm

aaah.. the good ol’ Bennets..

nicely done though i did NOT really need to stare at a lil’ wormie first thing during breakfast..

bleeeeeehsh :|

34 Redzilla 10.09.06 at 6:18 pm

Hmmm…that little worm looks like he’s about 2.5 centimeters long…

35 B. Modern 10.09.06 at 6:19 pm

Given his choice if literature, I would venture to say his name is Mister InchwormPants, Esq. I just want to give him a pair of teensy tiny period specs.

36 Michele 10.09.06 at 6:22 pm

Pride and Prejudice. I knew it when I saw ‘Mr Bennett’. And that worm is so teen-inchy and cute!

37 PopQuotes 10.09.06 at 6:22 pm

Pride and Prejudice! The perfect book for a poor little bookworm who’s just trying to survive.

38 ajww 10.09.06 at 6:28 pm

Amazing photos!

39 sky 10.09.06 at 6:30 pm

Yep! It’s Lowly, all right, Rich!

40 A thinker 10.09.06 at 6:30 pm

“EHN!”

T-O, an even better question is how you would *put* pants on an inchworm, could you find them.

And I won’t repeat the name of the book…everyone else has already got it ;)

Photog comment: *love* the very narrow DOF on these pics :)

41 Subhangi 10.09.06 at 6:31 pm

Um … should that be Inch-sane?

Never mind.

42 Jen 10.09.06 at 6:34 pm

That worm is awesome! And its Pride and Prejudice!

43 pendlerpiken 10.09.06 at 6:35 pm

The name Bennet alone did it for me… I had no idea there were so many Auten fans here :)

I wonder how many are reading it right now? Positively “Eyre Affair”-esque…

44 Alexis 10.09.06 at 6:36 pm

Love the inchworm. Love Pride and Prejudice. Love CO.

(Love a day off…)

45 pendlerpiken 10.09.06 at 6:37 pm

That would be “Austen”, obviously. Sorry, typing police :)

46 Sam 10.09.06 at 6:40 pm

As soon as I saw “Mrs. Bennet” and “marriage” and “five thousand pounds” I thought Pride and Prejudice. Little wormie picked a great book!

47 bats 10.09.06 at 6:40 pm

What do inchworms turn into? I’m assuming they’re an intermediate into another stage…

48 shutterbug74 10.09.06 at 6:46 pm

That cuteness should be prohibited by law.

49 batty 10.09.06 at 6:47 pm

bats: my guess would be inch-and-a-halfworms.

50 Catman Dude 10.09.06 at 6:49 pm

That’s one BRAVE inchywormy. I just get the feeling that someone is just waiting to SLAM the book on the wormy!

51 Otter 10.09.06 at 6:52 pm

Oooh Mr Bennett!
Sooo P&P

52 Scofield 10.09.06 at 6:56 pm

Lowly! Teh alpine hat! Oi.
Now I totally see that teeny tiny worm with something green on its head ;)

http://www.juanvonkind.com/Store2/Lowly_Worm2.jpg

Scarry’s books are wonderful, I’ve spent many happy moments with them.
Yes, I still read them! <3
(which pretty much tells my
mental age..)

53 Psychotia 10.09.06 at 7:04 pm

Freakishly-adorable worm-let! :)

Although, you sure he qualifies as an inchworm?
He looks to be only 6 letters long…

^_~

54 Theo 10.09.06 at 7:06 pm

Maybe it’s one of those easy-to-read large-type books.

55 jaypo 10.09.06 at 7:11 pm

Prosh li’l worm–he’s lookin’ for the right word.

56 Missin my kitteh 10.09.06 at 7:21 pm

My favorite novel! I just love that Mr. Darcy!! And cute worm!!

57 StormCat 10.09.06 at 7:22 pm

Don’t you just LOVES those Inchyworms???? They are sooooo cute!!!!! I see them in my trees all the time and I keep wanting to save them from those long climbs they have!!!!

Susan, I absolutely adore that song!!!!!

Hey, can anyone find a link to that song? I’ve not heard it for years but loved it so much….

58 soxfan 10.09.06 at 7:33 pm

*ahem*
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me
You’d stop and see
How beautiful they are..

59 Farhibide 10.09.06 at 7:45 pm

EEEK! PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE!!! That little wermy must be a Jane Austen fan!

60 AmyH 10.09.06 at 7:57 pm

Oh, the Richard Scarry books! I used to spend hours looking at all the details. Now I know what to get my nieces for Christmas. I’m going to force all my favorites onto them, whether they like it or not.

61 Mary 10.09.06 at 8:00 pm

(Lovely singing, soxfan!!)

I also knew right away it was P&P. This little guy is TOO cute!

62 Emc^2 10.09.06 at 8:05 pm

To be precise, the wormlet is perusing Chapter VIII of Volume III, paragraph 3 (“When first Mr. Bennet was married, economy was held … alone prevented their exceeding their income.”)

This is right in the middle of a critical part of the book, so let’s don’t disturb the wormy while he gets on with his reading…

– Emc^2

PS: I won’t spoil any of the rest of the story, in case you haven’t read it, but I will say that there’s a happy ending in Chapter XIX, if he ever gets that far.

And, yes, it’s a soap opera – Jane is, of course, one of the principal ancestors of the romance novel – but it’s a very superior sort of soap opera…

63 pugmamatimestwo 10.09.06 at 8:07 pm

Yay, P&P! Lil’ Inchie has great taste :D

64 hillbilly geek 10.09.06 at 8:15 pm
65 TAJ 10.09.06 at 8:20 pm

Turning the page must be one helluv an ordeal for him!

66 bearlet 10.09.06 at 8:23 pm

i think this picture is downright abusive. the worm was probably crushed to death by the [un]gentle reader. if the CO CEO truly loves animals, i demand to see a 4th picture in the set which shows the worm being rescued, or somehow escaping from its cruel (yet literate) death.
= )
love = jane [austen]

67 zelda 10.09.06 at 8:26 pm

I LURVE Jane Austen.
This inch worm has fine literary taste, I must say.

Yes, did he survive his journey, or was he slammed upon?

68 ljlucy 10.09.06 at 8:35 pm

Wikipedia: a good start to finding out anything

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometer_moth

69 Clotypus 10.09.06 at 8:37 pm

HAHAHA Book Worm! :D

Pride and Prejudice ^^ And no, I didn’t peek and the previous posties :P

70 lew8 10.09.06 at 8:42 pm

nobody likes me everybody hates me guess I’ll go eat woooooorms!!! long thin slimy ones short fat juicy ones…..itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy WOOOOOORRRMMMSSS!!! and yes I was singing while I was typing….

71 Sari 10.09.06 at 9:03 pm

Yes! Who saw “Mrs. Bennet” and did NOT think Pride & Prejudice? That worm has excellent taste! :)

72 Sari 10.09.06 at 9:06 pm

Oh, and “Missin my kitteh”, I double ya on Mr. Darcy there. ;) Maybe that is our dear wormy’s name.

73 loonylawnflamingo 10.09.06 at 9:10 pm

I saw Mrs. Bennett and five thousand pounds and knew it was P&P. -^o^- This lil’ wormie has excellent taste in literature.

74 magdalene 10.09.06 at 9:12 pm

Nadie me quiere, todos me odian ¡yo quiero comer gusanos! les corto la cabeza, les [swooop] chupo lo de adentro ¡¡¡yo quiero comer gusanos!!!

The Spanish version for that song, lew8 (just a little bit more cruel) (singing while typing, also)

75 PuppyMomma 10.09.06 at 9:29 pm

Whoda thunkit? Inchworms like Jane Austen!

76 Hila 10.09.06 at 9:48 pm

Susan and Soxfan, exact same connotation here…

“2 and 2 are 4,
4 and 4 are 8,
8 and 8 are 16,
16 and 16 are Pride and Prejudice…”

77 sabrina 10.09.06 at 9:56 pm

aww thats cute

78 wolfwhocriedboy 10.09.06 at 10:00 pm

Awh MAN! I thought this was finally my chance to answer an intelligent question on this site AND further the cause of “Cuteness” in the arthropod world… But NO. Someone beat me to the answer with a Wiki-link, dangitt.

I WAS going to say that “inch-worms” are caterpillars, generally of the geometrid clan of moths. They are very cool, occasionally pesty but always intriguing.

I’m just happy to see anything of a “vermicular” shape making it into the annuls of cuteness.

:D

79 sabrina 10.09.06 at 10:01 pm

they also turn into moths!

I’m off to get some knitting needles and wool

http://www.crochetme.com/amigurumi-inchworm

80 jenny lane 10.09.06 at 10:03 pm

“Mr.Bennet”??? Why, that’s Pride and Prejudice, possibly the best love story ever written! And… oh, wait… everyone else got it too, and I’m no longer special.
Cute worm!

81 A Fine Morsel 10.09.06 at 10:07 pm

He definitely needs the Alpine hat. So cute!! What a sweet little wormy!

82 Marianne 10.09.06 at 10:13 pm

Well the book is pride and prejudice.. it says right on top of the book hahaha… But seriously cute pic

83 Laurie C 10.09.06 at 10:33 pm

Worry not, wormfans. If the reader cared enough to take the photo, I’m sure she cared enough to make sure the worm was saved from squishing.

84 Jessica Bennett 10.09.06 at 10:35 pm

Ah, the Bennetts. Yup, that’s Pride and Prejudice. TINY worm, too.

85 Sherrie 10.09.06 at 10:41 pm

As taker of Inchy McIncherson’s photograph, I am happy and delighted to inform you that he was most definitely NOT squished. I did not take a shot of his rescue, but it involved careful relocation to a nearby tree. And thanks for the compliments on the pictures!

86 suda nim 10.09.06 at 10:45 pm

/smug brag

I was reading a trashy Regency romance when a character said she was going to stay at home with the newest book by “Miss Austen.” I thought “Hah! Where’s the editor? Austen published anonymously during her lifetime!”

/smug brag off

87 JD 10.09.06 at 11:27 pm

Pride and Prejudice, doi!

88 Jennifer 10.09.06 at 11:27 pm

These qualify as the coolest worm photos ever. Snagging at least one for endless work giggling.

89 Megan 10.09.06 at 11:30 pm

AGH, it defies logic!
Worms aren’t normally cute, but this one is adorable :D
You can just see the “ehn”

90 Raegan 10.09.06 at 11:33 pm

Well, everyone said Pride and Prejudice already. I guess I am not as quick to get my submission in….. :-( Thats ok.

91 Bob Aman 10.10.06 at 12:08 am

I know everyone else already said “Pride and Prejudice”, but I just though I’d point out that it’s not hard to do this:

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22mrs.+bennet+for+many+years%22

92 Laurie C 10.10.06 at 12:08 am

Laurie C leaps into the 21st century with digital photography at last! w00t!

Photographic proof of Boxcar Kitten M on my lap:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2106440140093663817vVSKGb

Photo of Kitten Camouflage (Kitten M among leaves and asphalt):
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2854671150093663817mqfUuG

93 kittikin 10.10.06 at 12:12 am

Worms ARE NOT CUTE!!

Everyone: Repeat after me: Worms are NOT CUTE.

Ick.

Well, it was sort of cute, I guess.

94 arbed 10.10.06 at 12:15 am

can’t keep the snark in, nosirree…

Hey Bob Aman? It’s also not hard to read “E AND PREJUDICE” at the top of the book in the second picture, either, as someone pointed out earlier.

95 Aoife 10.10.06 at 12:30 am

My evil RPG character wants to go – BAM! – and slam the book shut. Must … not … let … evil … character … take … control …

96 Holly Golightly 10.10.06 at 12:41 am

Pride and prejudice! (I’m definitely getting an A today!)

97 Wendy 10.10.06 at 12:52 am

LOL, LOL! Senor Inchwormpants!

I LOVE it!

98 Livbert 10.10.06 at 12:56 am

(bursts in) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!!!!!!
Oh I crack myself up.
Sorry.
Senor Inchwormpants. XP

99 Allison 10.10.06 at 12:56 am

Cuteness on a Pride and Prejudice? Best day EVAR!

100 Alexis 10.10.06 at 1:16 am

Laurie C, Kitten P in the background of your Kitten M photos is our Rocketman’s doppelganger.

How’d you steal our cat and get him back to us without us noticing?!? Seriously, they look exactly alike.

Kitten M is pretty dang cute too. Rocketman’s “sister”/mortal enemy is a tortoiseshell calico named Snack, so really, your picture does quite a good job of capturing our kids. Well done, in all aspects (photography, rescue, etc…)

101 Lizzy 10.10.06 at 1:24 am

Pride and Prejudice. God I hated that book.

Go, mighty inchworm, go!

102 little miao 10.10.06 at 1:36 am

Wheeeee!! *snorgles baby inchworm*

103 wolfwhocriedboy 10.10.06 at 1:45 am

Well, for those opposed to worms. Inchworms aren’t actually “worms” which tend to be annelids or platyhelminthes. They are caterpillars which have many “cute” members. though I’d argue that a LOT of flatworms are cute too. ;)

Please see:

http://www.talaythai.com/image/0167.jpg

http://www.rosario.wwc.edu/inverts/Platyhelminthes/Kaburakia%20excelsa%20polyclad%204.jpg

http://www.discoverlife.org/IM/I_ML/0000/320/Pseudobiceros_hymanae,_dorsal_view,I_ML11.jpg

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/upload/2006/06/Penis_fencing_insemination.jpg

104 Earl 10.10.06 at 2:15 am

Mr. ‘n’ Mrs Bennet? – must be Jane Austin, P&P…

105 ka9q's wife 10.10.06 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the pics and update LaurieC.

Thanks for the links Wolfwhocriedboy. I don’t really think flat worms are cute, striking yes,interesting life forms definately, cute…not so much. I had heard about Penis Fencing among flatworms, nice to see a picture. Funny reproduction among non-mammalian animals is fascinating to me.
*goes to look for more pics*

106 ka9q's wife 10.10.06 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the pics and update LaurieC.

Thanks for the links Wolfwhocriedboy. I don’t really think flat worms are cute, striking yes,interesting life forms definately, cute…not so much. I had heard about Penis Fencing among flatworms, nice to see a picture. Funny reproduction among non-mammalian animals is fascinating to me.
*goes to look for more pics*

107 ka9q's wife 10.10.06 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the pics and update LaurieC.

Thanks for the links Wolfwhocriedboy. I don’t really think flat worms are cute, striking yes,interesting life forms definately, cute…not so much. I had heard about Penis Fencing among flatworms, nice to see a picture. Funny reproduction among non-mammalian animals is fascinating to me.
*goes to look for more pics*

108 ka9q's wife 10.10.06 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the pics and update LaurieC.

Thanks for the links Wolfwhocriedboy. I don’t really think flat worms are cute, striking yes,interesting life forms definately, cute…not so much. I had heard about Penis Fencing among flatworms, nice to see a picture. Funny reproduction among non-mammalian animals is fascinating to me.
*goes to look for more pics*

109 ka9q's wife 10.10.06 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the pics and update LaurieC.

Thanks for the links Wolfwhocriedboy. I don’t really think flat worms are cute, striking yes,interesting life forms definately, cute…not so much. I had heard about Penis Fencing among flatworms, nice to see a picture. Funny reproduction among non-mammalian animals is fascinating to me.
*goes to look for more pics*

110 ka9q's wife 10.10.06 at 3:40 am

Thanks for the pics and update LaurieC.

Thanks for the links Wolfwhocriedboy. I don’t really think flat worms are cute, striking yes,interesting life forms definately, cute…not so much. I had heard about Penis Fencing among flatworms, nice to see a picture. Funny reproduction among non-mammalian animals is fascinating to me.
*goes to look for more pics*

111 wolfwhocriedboy 10.10.06 at 3:55 am

LOL, Ka9q’s… yeah, many agree. The repriductive exploits of the plats is minor if you know about snails, slugs, and other land – inverts. Still, many are cute. I think but yes, fiscinating at all times. ;)

You rock!

112 Chilli 10.10.06 at 4:04 am

Laurie C & Alexis re Kitten P….
I clicked on the 2nd link & thought “what’s my Mister Snuffles doing in Nth America. He should be home in Melbourne Aussie.

So that makes three the same

113 chimera17 10.10.06 at 5:22 am

Flatworms can be cute! Check out this Planaria’s little googly eyes.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/planaria/kao.jpg

Yay, my first post!

114 Anita 10.10.06 at 6:05 am

Hey, what’s up with Bread Pudding? It’s not letting any comments be posted for her, and now she’s disappeared entirely! Did somebody eat her, or did someone put her in the puddin’ cat-apult?

115 Lex (Alexandra) 10.10.06 at 7:06 am

P&P is my favourite book :-) I lurve CuteOverload…. ahhh..

116 wolfwhocriedboy 10.10.06 at 7:15 am

chimera17 — You’ve just become one of my favorite people, EVER. ;) *worm_hug*

Who of us didn’t think that the classic “whooly-bear” wasn’t cute whe we were young and innonent?

Other cute catipillars:

http://www.kidsbooksandpuppets.com/images/folkmanis/disc/wollybearcaterpillars.jpg

http://abclocal.go.com/images/wpvi11022005woolybear200.jpg

http://www.paradise-jewelry.com/images/mystery1.jpg

This is our classic Monarch Butterfly beebeh:
http://members.aol.com/sepintx/2005/sept/mon175_7511cat.jpg

http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/perelandra/images/0304_week_37_6_500.jpg

117 noharmthere 10.10.06 at 7:36 am

Not finding the flatworms too terribly cute, but very striking. LOVE the caterpillars. Now I have the song “Ugly Bug Ball” stuck in my head.

118 Aubrey 10.10.06 at 7:43 am

‘Pride and Prejudinch’:

Learned worms from schoolrooms across the country crawled out of the apples on the teachers’ desks and demanded their very own edition. So great was this demand, that the new edition was printed out without altering the original title, an error which will be corrected in the second edition.

119 Elanor 10.10.06 at 9:31 am

Mr Darcy!

120 Theo 10.10.06 at 11:18 am

Anita — re: “Hey, what’s up with Bread Pudding?” etc.

Huh?? Is this an earnest question? Is “Bread Pudding” someone’s screen name?

121 Laurie C 10.10.06 at 11:36 am

Chili — yet another doppelganger. Kitten P is also almost identical to my own gray tux guy, Sodapop.

122 Laurie C 10.10.06 at 11:36 am

Forgot to add — yay! Aubrey’s back! Did you have a good time in Vegas?

123 Denise in Nebraska 10.10.06 at 12:52 pm

My favorite C.O. submissions of all-time now include the teeny worm pictured here and the teeny snailio on the bleacher seats. Those “EHN!” photos do me in, each and every time. The smaller and more bendy the creature, the more innate cuteness. The little guy here looks to have just been born. Maybe he just fell off of a nearby tree, into the world of Jane Austen. The worm registered for college as an English major, shortly after this photo was taken. :^)

124 grace 10.10.06 at 2:16 pm

Pride and Prejudice

125 Tracie 10.10.06 at 3:15 pm

OK, so was this scene set up, or were you happily reading along when Mrs. Inch-Book Worm “entered” your space? This sequence is SOOO great! Great macro shots–fabulous that she decided to follow the sentence–fabulous that the book is a classic we can recognize even without seeing the top of the page! I hope you win some kind of contest(s) with these! You should frame them and offer to hang them at a(several) library(ies)! Most libraries have art shows–but even if they don’t, this is one they’d probably want to buy for permanent display!

126 h 10.10.06 at 4:46 pm

Gives new meaning to the term “bookworm”. lol :)

127 chimera17 10.10.06 at 5:49 pm

I love cute inverts! Everyone knows kittens and puppies are cute, but wormies and caterpillars and such need more love. I require that wooly bear puppet.

Here’s an octy and a squid!

http://www.babyanimalz.com/images/baby-octopus.jpg
http://squid.us/wp-content/uploads/baby_squid.jpg

128 juju 10.10.06 at 6:19 pm

mr bennet + mrs bennet + something about marriage MUST be p&p, tho i didn’t even see it at the top of the pages. the worm stole all my attention! a boookwoooorm in truest form. horrah!

129 anneelizmary 10.10.06 at 6:31 pm

My standard poodle Lizzy is named for Elizabeth Bennett (and her family nickname, especially. Janeites unite!

130 Melis 10.10.06 at 7:15 pm

“I have the greatest respect for your nerves, my dear. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

Forgive my paraphrasing–it’s just the best snark going. Mr. Bennet *rules*! And so does Lizzy, without whom I wouldn’t have half as much fun getting my underskirts muddy…

131 Aubrey 10.10.06 at 7:31 pm

Melis, I enjoyed that prodigiously!

132 hrh.squeak 10.10.06 at 8:47 pm

Chimera17 – Yay Yay Yay to you! Cute Squidly McCuttleson! Go forth and find the cute in all things, all ye who log in here!

133 the jojo 10.10.06 at 9:28 pm

well, duuuuhhhh, that would be pride and prejudice.

134 Theo 10.10.06 at 9:35 pm

Melis & Aubreys — for prime snark, I recommend:
– Mark Twain
– Dorothy Parker
– Tom Stoppard
– Al Franken
– Jon Stewart

(and please feel free to add to this list)

135 Theo 10.10.06 at 9:36 pm

Oh oh oh and this guy:
http://evileditor.blogspot.com/

136 Aubrey 10.10.06 at 9:47 pm

T., since I am feeling free, I will add to that list Stephen Fry and Jonathan Swift (but will refrain from quoting from ‘A Modest Proposal’ – it was such a naughty one!).

I will also refrain from quoting darling Ms. Parker’s one sentence review of ‘The House At Pooh Corner’ (which would possibly create a storm of protest).

137 Theo 10.10.06 at 9:59 pm

…or her use of “horticulture” in a sentence.

Good call on Fry & Swift. Maybe John Waters?

138 Aubrey 10.10.06 at 10:34 pm

T:
As we continue with The Hunting Of The Snark, I think John Waters would ‘fit’ in very nicely.

139 nicole 10.10.06 at 10:37 pm

damnit. i guess im a little late to guess what book it is. i got it though…its one of my fave books. anyways. adorable picture. who knew worms could be cute?

140 Lauri 10.10.06 at 10:45 pm

I absolutely LOVE this ehnch worm!!! He and teeny pencil frog could be friends!

141 Lauri 10.10.06 at 10:58 pm

Here’s another cute invertebrate!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14407718@N00/266417730/

142 AuntieMame 10.10.06 at 11:11 pm

“Ms. Parker’s one sentence review of ‘The House At Pooh Corner’”

It certainly would from me, Aubrey. But then, the book was written for 6-year-olds, not snarky, bitchy old women.

I do confess, however, that I adore her exchange with Clare Booth Luce as they both attempt to pass the same doorway. :-)

143 Lauri 10.10.06 at 11:32 pm

Pray repeat it for me auntiemame, I know I have heard it, but can’t recall!

144 Theo 10.10.06 at 11:46 pm

Adding another mugshot to the Snark’s Gallery: How ’bout the cheery doctor character that Hugh Laurie plays on TV? Y’know, the one with no accent?

145 Aubrey 10.10.06 at 11:53 pm

Dr. Gregory House? Sure! And what about Edmund Blackadder – regardless of incarnation?

146 Laurie C 10.11.06 at 12:03 am

Also on the snark list: Denis Leary.

147 Theo 10.11.06 at 12:08 am

Denis Leary, OK. But not Bill Maher. (Or Dennis *Miller* either.)

148 Theo 10.11.06 at 12:12 am

Reaching back a bit, W. C. Fields has to qualify. And I seem to recall that Winston Churchill delivered at least one classic coup-de-grace, while *drunk* no less.

(I need to stop collecting snarks before I spiral out of control…)

149 Aubrey 10.11.06 at 12:27 am

T., what did W. Churchill say? I am overcome by curiosity. I have an image of a bulldog snarking off to the Axis powers, which is kind of amusing.

150 Theo 10.11.06 at 1:11 am
151 Lauri 10.11.06 at 1:52 am

Yip! Another site “added to favorites”.

152 Sally 10.11.06 at 1:57 am

ewww……but cute at the same time XD

153 Aubrey 10.11.06 at 2:55 am

T. – HE said that? Splendid!

154 AuntieMame 10.11.06 at 3:19 am

Lauri, apparently Clare Booth Luce held the door for Dorothy Parker, with the quip “age before beauty,” to which DP replied as she walked through, “pearls before swine.”

155 Lauri 10.11.06 at 3:30 am

Lol…oh yeah….so great. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have “all that” at the tip of my tongue!?

*dreams on*

156 adrianna 10.11.06 at 6:32 am

‘twould have been morbidly funny if the book was the original pinocchio.

157 cary 10.11.06 at 7:45 am

bookworm… man that made me giggle, and helped this headache. hooray for nerds

158 Anna 10.11.06 at 10:54 am

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! Ehn!

I didn’t see the name of the book on top of the page, so I got it on Mr/Mrs Bennet. *proud(not prejudiced)*

159 adorkable 10.11.06 at 2:05 pm

That’s so cute! I think it would be easier for him to watch the movie than to read the whole book tho

160 Tiberia 10.11.06 at 3:19 pm

I’m not entirely sure, but I think the book is Jane Austen’s Pride & Predjudice. Heh! ;)

Can I add Evelyn Waugh to the snark list? And did y’all know Jack London had a schooner named The Snark?

161 Melis 10.11.06 at 3:50 pm

“The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines, which it constantly carries about. And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes;
A sentiment open to doubt.”

Snorglable kitten-belly for anyone who can Name That Quote! I had no idea I was in with such a literary bunch… but it sure does make me happy!

162 Melis 10.11.06 at 3:57 pm

Oh, what the hell. Here’s the kitten-belly, which on principle should never be hoarded in a miserly fashion:

http://www.monkeyview.net/id/467/jonah/enh_belly.vhtml

And: on the Snark list, I’d have to add contemporary animated television, without which we’d be pretty hard up for an abundance of mainstream satire. Yes, it’s a strange line to trace from Jane Austen to South Park, but the cutie worm above would get there, given enough ‘ehn’s…

163 Theo 10.11.06 at 4:04 pm

GAAHHHHH teh SPOTZ!!!
[plotz]

164 wolfwhocriedboy 10.11.06 at 4:20 pm

YAH!! *huggles* for all the cute INVERT fans here. I feel so at home. :)

Octopod cutness is a particular favorite. ;)

165 Aubrey 10.11.06 at 4:53 pm

Tiberia, speaking as rather a Vile Body myself, I would say YES, Evelyn Waugh definately belongs on the snark list.

166 Aubrey 10.11.06 at 4:55 pm

Jonah and the belleh of the kitteh!

167 sammy 10.11.06 at 5:25 pm

ha! i love these – i had a spawn of them on my catus beside be, they were dangling from their string things i could almost here the ‘weeee’

168 ann-marie 10.11.06 at 6:26 pm

i may be the 160th commenter, but i knew that was pride & prejudice from the get-go! lol.

169 Aubrey 10.11.06 at 7:06 pm

Melis, that’s from L. Carroll’s ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ – I don’t know which fit it is, and I’m in an agony about it.

170 Emc^2 10.11.06 at 9:29 pm

It’s “Fit the Second: the Bellman’s Speech”, which provides the five characteristics by which one can identify “the warranted genuine Snarks”.

– Emc^2

171 bestest pal 10.11.06 at 10:36 pm

OBV Pride and Prejudice.

172 j 10.11.06 at 10:57 pm

yep, knew it was P&P.

173 elena 10.12.06 at 1:09 pm

inchwormy! YEAY for unusual cuteness!

174 Bri 10.15.06 at 9:29 pm

‘oooh cute worm!’ – It’s a disgusting leech you fools! Ever heard of this blood sucking monster?

175 Theo 10.15.06 at 10:12 pm

I’ve experienced leeches, yes.
They live in stagnant water.
Not Jane Austen novels.

176 Heather 10.30.06 at 4:49 am

Pride and Prejudice !!!

horray for the book wormness!!

177 Lauren 11.09.06 at 4:58 am

Absolutely stunning photos… what a good idea! Kudos.

178 Liz 12.11.06 at 6:21 am

Pride and Prejudice…I love that booke

179 The Libster 12.12.06 at 5:28 pm

I know it’s a bit late to respond, but I thought I would anyway. The book is Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin:-) One of my favorites!!!

180 Alice Shortcake 03.29.07 at 3:20 pm

Hilarious. Never again will I be able to read “Pride and Prejudice” without thinking of this little bookworm!

181 Janet Aguilera 06.07.07 at 5:43 pm

That’s Pride and Prejudice!!! this picture is too cute!!!

182 kelson 07.07.07 at 2:02 am

Pride and Prejudice! totally

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