Tennis ball with a head

by Meg on August 24, 2007

Doesn’t this guy’s head look like it’s gonna pop off? Sender-inner Anna G. says [in Sports Announcer voice] "He… is… his own… C.O.X.C.U.!" 

Anna, [sideways glance] you’re weird.

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You think this is good, check out the other pics from this crazy Russain site.

{ 57 comments }

1 Anne Onymous 08.24.07 at 8:48 pm

Spleen?

2 Maggie 08.24.07 at 8:49 pm

best fluffy burd EVAH!

3 Space Cowgirl 08.24.07 at 8:56 pm

If people like bleening so much, why don’t they just make posts in their own blogs and be the bleen?

Rhetorical question.

4 Way Cool Groovy Chick 08.24.07 at 8:56 pm

From Russia with Fluff.

5 Anne Onymous 08.24.07 at 8:58 pm

Except that I didn’t bleen. I spleened. This was a spiteful spoof on all the fools that think it’s so incredibly important to shout out “First!” or, here, “Bleen!”.

6 Peppermint 08.24.07 at 9:01 pm

That bird is adorable!
The pictures on the crazy Russian site are cute too… but a lot of them look ’shopped.

7 Theresa 08.24.07 at 9:01 pm

Eef eet ees from Rahsha, then eet ees true bleeni-bird. Nazdrovye!

8 liz 08.24.07 at 9:01 pm

cute lil puffy-fluff.
Oh! and the stork with the calf on http://razgovor.nnm.ru/pozitif
outrageous cute-ness.

9 Peppermint 08.24.07 at 9:03 pm

That bird is adorable!
The pictures on the crazy Russian site are cute too… but a lot of them look ’shopped.

10 HRH 08.24.07 at 9:31 pm

Oi – what’s wrong with bleening ???

It’s part of CO …

like birdeee fluffulence

11 pugmamatimestwo 08.24.07 at 9:49 pm

that is one angry chickadee…

12 NYgirly 08.24.07 at 10:27 pm

normally i don’t dig birds (too many incidents when i couldn’t yank my hand back out of a bird’s cage before it got pecked!)… but this fella’s schweeeeet ^^

13 Golden 08.24.07 at 10:28 pm

He looks like those litte ‘toys’ that you .. ’suction cup’ to a flat surface and then it slowly ‘un suctions’ itself until in POPS up.. you know what I mean???

14 fish eye no miko 08.24.07 at 10:41 pm

Disapproving birdie! Must be taking lessons from the bunnies.

15 Anna G. 08.24.07 at 10:42 pm

Golden, I know what you mean! Poing!

16 Kipling 08.24.07 at 11:11 pm

He’s got a practice session with Sharapova at the Open tomorrow, though poor thing doesn’t know he’s gonna be the ball.

17 berthaslave 08.24.07 at 11:17 pm

The other photos on the Russkie site are pretty awesome, too (though some are clearly shopped).

18 Claire 08.24.07 at 11:18 pm

I feel a new cute painting coming on…

19 mishy 08.24.07 at 11:26 pm

must… poke.. *pokes fluffeh teh birdeh*

20 Dave 08.24.07 at 11:48 pm

*watches birdeh explode after being poked*

21 jen 08.25.07 at 12:12 am

i want to put in my mouf.

22 Robbie 08.25.07 at 1:28 am

I think there’s some disapproving going on here.

23 K.T. 08.25.07 at 1:45 am

I think you need to steal some pics from the russain site – it’s great :D

24 NotSupposedToBeDoingThisAtWork(ButNowI'mHome) 08.25.07 at 2:47 am

i agree with the folks who say “disapproving birdeh”… so precious, with his little disapprove-y face!! lol.

25 Shannon Johnson 08.25.07 at 3:10 am

Who ordered the ball of fluff.

26 Pinkz 08.25.07 at 6:57 am

OMG where is his leetle neck? his leetle head
is sweet lil fluff on his
round lil fluffy bod.

27 Subhangi 08.25.07 at 7:11 am

SQUEEEEEEEE!!! I want to tickle his belly!

28 Subhangi 08.25.07 at 7:33 am

And that Russian site is REDONK!

29 Lisa 08.25.07 at 8:26 am

That is the best link evar.

OT, somebody tell me why http://www.cuteoverload.com which previously worked fine now gives me a list of links Japanese dating agencies…?

30 Theo 08.25.07 at 1:05 pm

Lisa — the URL still works fine. Possibly your PC has been hijacked by malware.
Bad news, I know. Sorry… but what I would do would be to check a few things to make sure I was right, then back up all your data, wipe your hard drive completely, and then reinstall everything from scratch. (and THEN bill you something like $300)

31 Subhangi 08.25.07 at 1:26 pm

Lisa – Instead of typing http://www.cuteoverload.com, simply type cuteoverload.com. That should solve it. I always leave out the “www” and I end up getting the real thing. Though I wouldn’t mind looking at cute Japanese guys. ;)

32 Annie 08.25.07 at 3:14 pm

Lisa Awww just had this happen to me no japanese links but I lost allllllll My network connections it sucked. big time. on a good note my computer works great now it has been wiped and had everything re installed on a bad note I still haven’t got all my stuff back on it as far as what I use…and it is like being on someone elses computer.

33 Emma 08.25.07 at 5:21 pm

AAH! He ees shrinking into a ball of fluff!
Oh, and is that SNOW I see?
Too cute.

34 Andréa 08.25.07 at 5:30 pm

From Russia with Fluff.
Awww! This is the greatest!

35 Lisa 08.25.07 at 5:51 pm

I have checked everything and on my computer everything seems to be fine. Also, the http://www.cuteoverload.com works again as usual. Weird :/

Thank you everyone!

36 Theo 08.26.07 at 2:22 am

Weird… glad it didn’t cost you the $300, though.
;)

37 Metz 08.26.07 at 2:37 am

Every once in a while when I type in http://www.cuteoverload.com it takes me to a generic search site that isn’t yahoo or any other legitimate search engine. Only once in a while.

I think it’s a site hijackingks. But its very rare and happens at various locations not just at home so I don’t know. Could even be something as simple as I’ve typed one letter wrong or something and it’s one of them take advantage of another’s mistake kind of things. So I save myself the headaches and have CO on my favorites wherever I have comp access. LOL

38 Theo 08.26.07 at 2:52 am

Metz — you mean that OpenDNS page? That one’s still legit; it means that for whatever reason, one of the links in the chain that serves Cute Overload to the internets has broken (and I believe it’s specifically the link that actually provides the “www.cuteoverload.com” URL). Usually it doesn’t last long. It used to happen more often when CO’s allotted monthly bandwidth was exceeded; the early rocketship growth of Teh Qte™s readership was kinda surprising.

39 Dale 08.26.07 at 2:53 am

It´s not tennis, folks, it´s badminton. And he´s the birdie!

40 Metz 08.26.07 at 2:55 am

ohhhhhhhh. nevermind (Emily Litella voice)

41 Theo 08.26.07 at 2:55 am

Anne Onymous — late response here, but hon, I’ve *tried*. Lots. That’s what “BLEEN” itself was, originally. In my experience, either folks understand irony naturally, or (much more often) they just never will.

42 fluidstatic 08.26.07 at 3:09 am

It’s a cotton ball with face and feet. I want to pop him in my mouth, for some reason. Not eat him, just hold him in my mouth. (Bet he tastes like caramels.)

43 Annie 08.26.07 at 3:20 am

I lof his little cheek smudges like he is on the warpath.

44 Annie 08.26.07 at 3:21 am

Ohhh and I wnat to pick him up and cup him in my hands and feel his fluffy feathers.. he is just soooooo cute. must save for wall paper this winter. Cute cute cute.

45 Annie 08.26.07 at 3:23 am

Okay and the last one I promise those little tufts on the sides of his cheeks look just like little wings all poised to take off LOL okay I am done Now. (Maybe)

46 Kar 08.26.07 at 5:57 am

Wait, where are the wings?

*feels under the fur*

47 optically delicious 08.26.07 at 6:19 am

If you do not look directly at his face, it kind of makes him look like his mother let him get dressed and he put his head on upside down.

48 Annie 08.26.07 at 3:25 pm

Okay I found one more awesome thing right above his eyes his eyebrows look like furbrows and they are knitted in disapproval. And Optially delicious, Yup upside down head visual.

49 Tugs (aka optically delicious) 08.26.07 at 8:10 pm

Annie – I am glad I am not the only one! I thought maybe the aliens were photoshopping my brain so to speak.

50 NYgirly 08.26.07 at 10:37 pm

sometimes i’m all spastic as i frantically type in ‘www.cuteoverload.com’ and, in my haste, i instead type in ‘cuteoverLoRd’ and then i get sucked into looking at cute pictures of Mao and Darth V. and Lenin…

ok maybe not ;)

51 Kar 08.27.07 at 7:45 pm

Weird. Now that you mention it Annie, his eyes are BELOW his beak as opposed to being above it.

Maybe it’s the angle of the shot but that’s kinda, odd. Like having eyes in your cheeks/jowls.

52 Birder 08.27.07 at 10:03 pm

FINALLY. I figured out what kind of bird he is. Eurasian tree sparrow. See http://www.kolkatabirds.com/mizoram/treesparrow8m.jpg.

In the background of his own picture above you can see the wing pattern on another bird out of focus in the background.

I agree with those who say his eyes are actually in the “mask” next to his beak. The lower black spots are cheek patches. But definitely if he put his face on upside down the cheek patches would look like eyes! Maybe that’s a camouflage thing as on butterflies and caterpillars, fake eyes to fake out a hungry predator!

53 Emmie 08.28.07 at 7:36 am

How can one so fluffy be so serious?

54 The Honourable Gladys Anstruther 08.28.07 at 11:22 am

Ok so I’m a boid tweet f-ing tweet.

55 Oso 08.28.07 at 2:11 pm

I never seen a tree sparrow that foofy before O_O is it a cold climate thing?

56 Birder 08.29.07 at 11:04 am

Yes, Oso, it is a cold-climate thing. That’s why down quilts work. We use birds’ down (and feathers) and let them trap air around us. Then our bodies’ heat warms the air. The birdies carry their quilts around with them, and floof themselves up to make the air spaces that their body heat warms up.

57 oso 08.30.07 at 11:58 am

haha! so that’s why all the sparrows I see here in the tropics are small! thank you @birder!

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