PANDA ‘TOCKS!

by Meg on March 9, 2007


  PICT0475 
  Originally uploaded by 8X10 Elaine.

aroooooogah

aroooooogah

whoop whoop whoop

Panda ‘Tocks Alert, People!

{ 67 comments }

1 Laura K 03.09.07 at 4:51 pm

Glad you ’splained the photo–it took me a while to figure it out!

2 PuppyMomma 03.09.07 at 4:52 pm

Yeah, with some parts of the panda, you don’t know whether they’re coming or going.

3 Kat 03.09.07 at 4:53 pm

Cute panda cub!!!
Hope it wasn’t stuck for long!

4 anner 03.09.07 at 4:53 pm

kind of appears to be a mono-tock!

5 nermalkitty 03.09.07 at 4:54 pm

help. i’ve fallen and i can’t get up. poor little guy.

6 zosterops 03.09.07 at 4:55 pm

…and me thinking it was a caterpillar…

7 RJ 03.09.07 at 4:56 pm

I dunno… It looks like some little kid tossed his stuffed bear up into a tree… :-)

8 ask-god-a-question.com 03.09.07 at 4:56 pm

Perhaps its a giant slingshot and the panda is about to be launched somewhere.

9 Mary 03.09.07 at 5:01 pm

Adorable panda tocks! Love it!

10 DKN 03.09.07 at 5:01 pm

I am considering myself warned and alerted!

11 DKN 03.09.07 at 5:03 pm
12 kittymomma333 03.09.07 at 5:05 pm

Enh!
Enh!

Looks like the poor fella has a case of the Pooh Bear.

13 Persephone 03.09.07 at 5:07 pm

omg, too adorable! Pandas look like they were designed to stimulate the part of the brain that appreciates cuteness.

14 Helene 03.09.07 at 5:09 pm

aroooooogah? LOL!

15 LauraK 03.09.07 at 5:12 pm

I think I’m gonna call it a day. First post means I can go home from work now, right?

16 Subhangi 03.09.07 at 5:12 pm

AWWWWWWW.

17 Pheas 03.09.07 at 5:14 pm

Speck-tock-ular!

18 sydney 03.09.07 at 5:14 pm

You guys I can’t believe it. Made my day. I have been following Tai Shan from the National Zoo and just found out him and his mom have been separated he is 19 months old. I was feeling really sad. Thanks for this.

19 Annie 03.09.07 at 5:15 pm

Cute but sad panda alert!!! Read about the three-legged panda who needs a fake front leg at: http://www.animalphiles.com

20 Wendy 03.09.07 at 5:15 pm

Hee heeee! PANDA-BUTT!

21 jen 03.09.07 at 5:18 pm

O M G

look at his little clawsies

urgle!

22 Tor 03.09.07 at 5:23 pm

That must be some tender-looking bamboo–hope this beebee got a good mouthful!

23 Daisycat 03.09.07 at 5:23 pm

now that’s what I’m tockin bout….WOOT!!!

24 Leilani 03.09.07 at 5:24 pm

OMB, I love the fuzzybutt!

25 Daisycat 03.09.07 at 5:24 pm

so cute it’s almost tocksic…

26 Daisycat 03.09.07 at 5:25 pm

*watches as mind wanders off*

27 katherine 03.09.07 at 5:26 pm

OK, this is SO UNFAIR! I went to zoo atlanta and the closest I got to Mei Lan was watching her on the tv monitor. And Elaine got to see her climbing around and everything. I am so jealous.

28 anner 03.09.07 at 5:26 pm

have people seen the panda/chow? the AP says it’s *painted*!?http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070304/481/xbej80103040746;_ylt=AkyJ.P_sY2jodUOmPHG8L68DW7oF

29 Michelle 03.09.07 at 5:44 pm

Baby Panda. Sneezes. Scares Mommy. SO CUTE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLzvOsQ80k

30 leah 03.09.07 at 5:50 pm

cuteness is not really a word but, also where is the rest of thst poor panda???!!?! What a wonderful giggle you all got out of me today thats just what I needed Thanks CUTE OVERLOAD !!!!!!!!!

31 layla42 03.09.07 at 5:52 pm

Panda buns!
Panda buns!

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

32 anner 03.09.07 at 5:55 pm

according to the american heritage dictionary, cuteness is a word. then again that is a “descriptive” rather than a “prescriptive” dictionary…i wonder what the OED says.

33 Tony James 03.09.07 at 5:56 pm

Which brings us neatly to today’s Dream Job threadjack…
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l16/TehTeej/Washington%20DC%20-%20January%202007/DreamJob.jpg
This lady at the National Zoo gets to spend ALL DAY looking at PandaTocks…[sigh, I knew I should have worked harder at school...]

34 Suzanne 03.09.07 at 5:58 pm

Want to cuddle him!

35 Kritter 03.09.07 at 6:10 pm

Another athlete! (see hamster posting of yesterday)

36 bats 03.09.07 at 6:27 pm

Honest to Pete, Velveteen Rabbits look more real than this! :D

37 Sarah 03.09.07 at 6:56 pm

I hope everybody saw this article in the NY Times Magazine this weekend:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04funnyhumor.t.html

I’m already saving up my money.

38 Fable 03.09.07 at 7:08 pm

nice…euh…set fabrication Sarah!

39 Fable 03.09.07 at 7:11 pm

looking at your friend getting a hug should be has good has getting one, you dont need an artcicle trying to convince you you are missing on something.

40 Angela P. 03.09.07 at 7:11 pm

I’ve only seen a cuter tush on my baby! I want to play with his big soft paws.

41 joools 03.09.07 at 7:27 pm

in my household, we call that the west end of an eastbound panda.

42 ajww 03.09.07 at 7:30 pm

Reply to NYtimes article: Not trying to sound racist or anything, but chinese people sure know how to rake in the money.

43 RJ 03.09.07 at 7:44 pm

anner: Cuteness IS a word! Since you wondered, the OED says:

“Cuteness (colloq.)

The quality of being cute.

1768 GOLDSM. Good-n. Man II, Who could have thought so innocent a face could cover so much cuteness! 1807-8 W. IRVING Salmag. iv. (1860) 88 All that quaintness, cuteness, and clumsiness, for which he is remarkable. 1845 Knickerbocker Aug. (Bartlett), He had a pair of bright, twinkling eyes, that gave an air of extreme cuteness to his physiognomy. 1872 H. M STANLEY How I found Livingstone xii. 464 Very fine people and singularly remarkable for commercial ‘’cuteness” and sagacity. 1903 Booklovers Mag. Dec. (Advt.), The illustration gives but a faint idea of the beauty and cuteness of the calendar itself.”

44 anner 03.09.07 at 8:00 pm

RJ – splendid! thanks.

45 Cyb 03.09.07 at 8:21 pm

Darling, where are the post??? we want more post! I undestand, you must be busy with real,actual work, but we need our daily cuteoverload dose and just one pick is not enough….!

46 Lady Ann 03.09.07 at 8:34 pm

Just want to snorgle those little footsiewootsies!

47 Suda Nim 03.09.07 at 8:59 pm

ajww: I’d counterargue that it’s a common trait of anyone anywhere in the world who knows they have something that people want.

Or can make them want. P.T. Barnum, anyone? Come see the fabulous egress!

48 Sarah 03.09.07 at 9:07 pm

Fable:
Set fabrication? What? Color me confused.

49 mctwin 03.09.07 at 9:19 pm

Teho, are you all “right in the head”? Just asking! Your a laugh-out-loud RIOT!! Thanks!

50 Theo 03.09.07 at 9:31 pm

McTwin — that’s generally a fair question… but this post was all Meg’s.
I posted the marmalade bengal kittens, though.

51 Theresa 03.09.07 at 11:03 pm

I love it that the panda-tocks alert consists of ’50s submarine movie sound effects.

52 anner 03.10.07 at 2:01 am

my husband wants to know if these are “pandaloons”

53 useta hada kitteh 03.10.07 at 2:59 am

Further to RJ’s dictionary definition of cuteness, if I recall correctly, “cute” originally meant “clever” or “intelligent”. Must mean people who appreciate teh Qte ™ are highly intelligent. Doesn’t surprise me at all…

54 Yitzysmommie 03.10.07 at 3:12 am

Not *just* panda tocks – BABY panda tocks!!

55 Galley 03.10.07 at 3:31 am

Gah! I was THERE when this picture was being taken! I remember thinking, “Man, this would make a great baby panda ‘tocks picture!”. That poor bear was stuck there for a good 10 minutes. Couldn’t figure out WHERE it was going.

56 John Dough 03.10.07 at 9:29 am

What the heck does “Tocks” mean? There needs to be a glossary of all the “gooey” words used on this site!

57 useta hada kitteh 03.10.07 at 1:10 pm

John Dough — there *IS* a glossary of the unique words used by commenters on this site. May I point you to the side bar on the right, under More! More! More! in which there is a glossary. Here’s the link to “Tocks”: http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Tocks

Okay? Okay.

58 Carlisa 03.10.07 at 2:49 pm

“gooey”?????–We peeps rather think of the word as “sweet and sticky” Yeah, much better. Sorta like melted taffy :o )

59 Carlisa 03.10.07 at 2:55 pm

And must add—Lurve the Panda’s prosh tocks!

60 pyrit 03.10.07 at 3:37 pm

Great comment above; re: Winnie the Pooh moment.

I wish my reaction to this photo were as tubbly cubbly all stuffed with fluff but…

I got more a, “Where’s it’s head?” reaction which led to, “Headless”, then realized the panda is upside down. So, “Sleepy” in the “Hollow” of a tree.

61 love , yvonne 03.10.07 at 5:32 pm

eww butt!!!!!!!!!!!

62 John Dough 03.10.07 at 9:03 pm

Thanks for the Info!!! I looked but couldn’t find the glossary. Thank you…why you are just a poopsi little schnugulbum for helping me!

Seriously though thank you!

63 Hazey_Sunshine 03.11.07 at 12:00 pm

Panda tocks!!!!

Made my Sunday morning – now I can get in the bath, all cuted-up.

^_^

64 Theo 03.11.07 at 3:10 pm

John Dough — the link is “Official C.O. Glossary” and it’s up in the right-hand margin, under the heading “MORE! MORE! MORE!”

65 John Dough 03.11.07 at 6:22 pm

Thanks Theo…but someone directed me to it.

66 Theo 03.11.07 at 6:28 pm

Ah. Wups. OK. (Thanks, Useta!)

67 Yubi Shines 03.15.07 at 11:07 am

“Another fine mess I’ve gotten myself into. SIGH.”

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