Oopths.

by Meg on January 15, 2008

My legs. They don’t works so much anymo’s.

Is fine tho.  I stays here for a while maybe.

{ 62 comments }

1 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 4:04 pm

Are we working on a new “splat” category?

2 SpamFiltersHateMe 01.15.08 at 4:05 pm

It’s gymnast-hamster! Doing the splits!

[Found this in the spam filter; dunno whose it is... - Ed.]

3 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 4:07 pm

Oops. I mean splategory.
(I shun the bleen)

4 booya 01.15.08 at 4:11 pm

whoa!! this looks EXACTLY like my little hammie!!!!

5 jen 01.15.08 at 4:11 pm

omg lol. blobbitude! teensy toesicles! eep!

6 MandaBain 01.15.08 at 4:14 pm

Good for you, Charlie! Wait, by saying you shun the bleen, aren’t you really embracing it anyways? ;-)

HAMMIEGOWHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

7 Khadija 01.15.08 at 4:18 pm

Yoga hammie

8 Khadija 01.15.08 at 4:19 pm

that’s a cute yoga hammie there

9 Beth 01.15.08 at 4:20 pm

I lurves the siberian hammies, ’specially when they do backfleeps. Siiiiigh.

10 g 01.15.08 at 4:25 pm

Hamster cheerleading tryouts?

11 Holy Cuteness 01.15.08 at 4:30 pm

Haha, is that a Russian dwarfhamster?

12 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 4:30 pm

Oh, I don’t know. It’s kind of like getting to make the first footprints in fresh snow. Irresistable.

13 Theo 01.15.08 at 4:36 pm

Don’t make me make fresh footprints IN YOUR @$$!

(I kid. “Splategory” — nicely done, CW.)

14 Hon Glad 01.15.08 at 4:38 pm

Charlie: I’m with you on splategory.

15 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 4:40 pm

‘kay, Theo, but’cha gotta kiss it first. (or do I mean to say bleen?)
(I, too, kid)

16 chanpon 01.15.08 at 4:40 pm

How low can you go? *shimmies under the invisible limbo stick*

17 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 4:42 pm

Oh, oh, oh! Here’s an idea – “Splategories” – a new game by Parker Bros.
Players throw things that are similar at the wall and see what sticks.

18 zski 01.15.08 at 4:43 pm

My hams used to LOOOVE to do this. Climb up the arm or chest to the shoulder, and then sliiiiiide down the back. A quick single-handed catch and then start all over again.

When your brain is the size of a baby pea, this kind of thing is fun.

19 katerpie 01.15.08 at 4:46 pm

Looks like me on the ice this morning. Whuh whoa!

20 Ms. McPantiesInABunchnuff 01.15.08 at 5:02 pm

The TOES are a killer!!:D

21 zeldapie 01.15.08 at 5:05 pm

Oh wow! First time I’ve EVER seen a hammie doing basset hips!!!

22 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 5:05 pm

@ zski – Sounds like sledding — fun even if your brain is NOT the size of a baby pea.

23 Marianne 01.15.08 at 5:12 pm

It’s Chmurka’s friend, Pompon! I love Pyza’s house of hammies.

24 Beth 01.15.08 at 5:17 pm

zski… yup, my two siberians did the same thing. Over and over and over and over again. But I never got tired of it either… hmmm… actually, my brain *might* be the size of a baby pea. XD

25 berthaslave 01.15.08 at 5:20 pm

Mr. Creosote, splatted like Mr. Arthur Pewtie. People, PLEASE don’t let your pocket pals watch “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.”

Splategory. Excellent, CW.

26 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 5:35 pm

Eet was just a woffer theen meent!

27 fallenwiccan 01.15.08 at 5:45 pm

aww i wants to go sliding with him

28 firefinch 01.15.08 at 5:50 pm

Mr. Creosote, ewwwww. I was reminded of that while watching Royal Canadian Air Farce last Friday. Did not want that to come up again. So to speak.

29 Shannon 01.15.08 at 5:57 pm

My life would be desolate without Meg’s wonderful captions.

30 liz 01.15.08 at 6:46 pm

my brain is not the size of a ‘baby pea’. and i think he looks like he’s having fun. i would totally do that if i was a hammie.

31 brinnann 01.15.08 at 6:51 pm

Charliewabba, your Splategories by Parker Brothers could use these for throwing: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/06/i_got_yer_flyin.html

32 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 6:57 pm

OOooh Noooooooo! Not the flying hamsters?!?!?!?! I can’t handle the pudding!!!

33 brinnann 01.15.08 at 7:03 pm

Aww, c’mon Charlie, I just finished lunch. I could use a little pudding. ;)

34 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 7:08 pm

*sigh* it was my very first commentroversy…

35 Joy 01.15.08 at 7:21 pm

My all-time favorite dwarf hamster was a slider – he loved to slide down me, down chairs, you name it, it was a game to him. I had another hammie that loved to go up my shoulder and then slide down my back, over and over as well. This cute hammie looks a bit like my hammy.

36 Kiragirl 01.15.08 at 7:21 pm

* Splategories *

The Rules:
1. Each team rolls one die.
2. Each team has that many chances to throw similar items at the wall of its choice.
3. Alternating turns is not necessary.
4. Whichever team has the most items still splatted against the wall after the egg-timer runs out (I’m frightened Aunty Em), is the winner.
5. Each member of winning team receives one free Siberian Ham to take home.

37 Theo 01.15.08 at 7:40 pm

Sounds good… but if you’re planning to play Splattegories against, say, your brother-in-law, you might want to switch Rule #5 to read “Honey-Baked Ham” instead. Just sayin’.

38 Jacquie 01.15.08 at 8:00 pm

Here I ams on da world famous “Hamster Shlide”!

39 charliewabba 01.15.08 at 8:01 pm

Aunty Em! Aunty Em! Aunty Em!
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

40 CheshireCat 01.15.08 at 8:08 pm

Wow, one leetle hamster. Veery big splattitude.

41 Decca 01.15.08 at 9:00 pm

I said drop and give me twenty mister!!! OK, fifteen Ten? One, can you give me one Private Hammie?

42 Molly 01.15.08 at 9:14 pm

this looks like a Pearl Winter White. Am I correct in that guess?

43 Lucy's mommeh 01.15.08 at 11:28 pm

I don’t believe nobody has said “He’s stretching out his HAMstrings…….”

44 Nebulous 01.16.08 at 2:07 am

SPLATEGORY.

Make it. I’m serious, now. This is a very important matter we all need to address in the right way. Splattation is a vr. srs issue. *nods*

45 Missy 01.16.08 at 3:06 am

This. This is why I <3 the Cute!

46 spb 01.16.08 at 3:49 am

Molly… don’t think it’s a Winter White. Looks more like a Campbells (possibly a dilute normal or opal color). But it might be one of the hybrids that are coming out (unfortunately).

Lucy’s mommeh… “HAMstrings” hahahahahahahaha! Good one. ;)

47 Mirysien 01.16.08 at 4:20 am

*lol* … o…h…m…y…g…a…w….d!!!

48 Subhangi 01.16.08 at 5:59 am

I second “splategory”.

49 Sandy 01.16.08 at 6:08 am

These would be somewhat less meaty drumsticks than the post a few pics back.
But no less deeelish!

50 Annie 01.16.08 at 7:41 am

Oh to be a hamster sliding down a shirt. Wheeeeeee!

51 catfan 01.16.08 at 7:07 pm

umm…not trying to be a party pooper here but it would appear as if that poor animal has an incision on its back. i would guess that by the blue background that he could be part of a lab experiment. his legs probably don’t move for a reason…he’s most likely surgically paralyzed. disturbing.not so cute….

52 Lucy's mommeh 01.16.08 at 8:06 pm

thanks spb..wondered if anyone was paying attention!

53 amy j 01.16.08 at 8:28 pm

catfan, are you worried or joking? Hammie is definitely a pet, not an experiment. It’s Pompon, friend of Chmurka. You can see them at pyza*’s photos on Flickr. That’s not an incision, just a stripe.

54 catfan 01.16.08 at 8:51 pm

i’m not kidding. the poor guy looks sad and immobilized. i would hope he’s ok…i love animals. but thanks for pointing out that he’s indeed someones pet. I’ll check out pyza’s pics.

55 Theo 01.16.08 at 9:47 pm

Um yeah. That “incision” is a stripe.

56 Clare 01.17.08 at 3:28 pm

HAR. Splategory. Surely even the disapproving rabbits would approve.

Catfan, that’s a Russian dwarf hamster, and the coloured dorsal stripe down the back is common to the breed. If we want to be serious, I would point out that the ‘blue background’ is actually fabric that is forming a sling in which the hammie is sitting – his legs are splayed to try and keep him upright on the wibbly surface.

Splategory NEEDS to happen.

57 Clare 01.17.08 at 3:31 pm

….Or, I could look at the original picture caption, and conclude that he is being slid down said sling of fabric, and the legs out are brakes. o.O

58 musicchick2 01.17.08 at 9:58 pm

Didja see the pikchur wif the little peenk bow on her head? *SPODE!*

59 musicchick2 01.17.08 at 10:00 pm

um… that was supposed to be *SPLODE!* Not the name of a china dishware company.

60 Molly 01.18.08 at 4:10 am

i just though by the coloring it looks like a winter white rather than an opal russian. it looks exactly like mine but i’m still not quite sure what mine is (he is getting darker because i put him near a heater) so i think he’s a winter white cuz he is changing coloring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phodopus_sungorus_2_-_Colour_corrected.jpg

also i think that he is on a pillow that is leaning, that is how mine looks when he is running down something!!!

61 Theo 01.18.08 at 3:55 pm

Molly — I’m no rodent expert, but to my eye, it looks like you’re spot on.

62 Theo 01.18.08 at 3:57 pm

…and [snicker!] MC2. “SPODE!”

I may have to start using that.

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