Rule of Cuteness #40! A lil’ bulging gut is cute

by Meg on June 13, 2008

Now, please, People, don’t extrapolate this rule to any large guts. I’m talking about a Rule of Cuteness for SMALL baby tummies here. Not your husband’s Miller High Life-fueled spare tire.

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Boy-yoi-yoi-yoi-yoing! [Gut and Cute Overload Xtreme Close up bulges out]

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Greg M., I hope I have your support on this.

{ 61 comments }

1 JediPirate 06.13.08 at 1:16 pm

Aw… Full tummy! *gently pokes the fully, bulging tumminess*

2 momof2kitties 06.13.08 at 1:16 pm

Does this mean that my bulging tummeh is bleenin’ cute , too?

*crosses fingers and hopes*

3 JediPirate 06.13.08 at 1:17 pm

er… full, bulging, rather. *facepalm*

4 chanpon 06.13.08 at 1:23 pm

Really?? All beer-bellied guys rejoice!

Er, not that I fall into that category. I’m all about the cute, spotted tailio.

5 ThreeCatNight 06.13.08 at 1:24 pm

That’s what we in the know call a “Prairie Pouch”.

6 dbr 06.13.08 at 1:35 pm

I refer to that as a ‘watermelon’ belly. if you painted him green with lighter green strips it would look like a watermelon, with a head and legs.

7 Gary 06.13.08 at 1:49 pm

Pleease tell that to my girlfriend who keeps pestering me to go to the gym more than 2x a week. ;P

8 DLR 06.13.08 at 1:53 pm

Eeeee, first baby lions, now baby gophers!

9 Erebella 06.13.08 at 1:54 pm

Ah, would you like a wafer-thin mint, sir?

10 steppy 06.13.08 at 1:54 pm

msut nuzzle the cute tummy bulge. Ker THUD!!!!!

11 blair 06.13.08 at 1:59 pm

see what you did? you can say that it doesn’t translate to men over 21, but we only hear “gut = cute”

and here i was starting to make mine go away for the tour de france, too

(scampers into kitchen for another ho-ho)

12 Kari 06.13.08 at 2:05 pm

Now isn’t that just like a kid? His belly is bulging full and he’s begging for Mom’s bite. And, like any loving mother, she’ll probably give it to him too. ;x

13 Mook 06.13.08 at 2:11 pm

Whatcher eatin’??? Kin I have sum, huh, huh, huh?!?

14 hon glad 06.13.08 at 2:17 pm

So you don’t like my white wine bulge huh.

15 cowdoctor 06.13.08 at 2:24 pm

actually folks, like puppies, the bulging tum is most likely the result of ascrids (round worms) sorry to be factual.

16 Katrina 06.13.08 at 2:28 pm

Dear cowdoctor, ascrids be darned, it is cute! Um, are ascrid worms maybe not so bad? Do all gophers have them? Please tell me they aren’t anything awful. Lies are OK. Thanks…

17 Ermine_Violin 06.13.08 at 2:30 pm

gutulance!!!11

i only wish my gutulance was as adorable.

18 cowdoctor 06.13.08 at 2:36 pm

roundworms are very common in young mammles they are transmitted from momma transplacentally in response to pregnancy hormones. as the critter matures it’s own immune system will generally clear them. it’s the reason you take your young puppies and kittens to the vet to be vax. and dewormed

19 Aoife 06.13.08 at 2:36 pm

Hm, had this look going when trying to dress in a t-shirt and jeans this a.m. Managed to disguise the visible-but-not-very-big bulges … and now I find out I didn’t have to because they’re cute. Assuming this applies to humans, too. Which it does. Right? Please?

20 cowdoctor 06.13.08 at 2:39 pm

and yah, very cute i agree

21 Lurker 06.13.08 at 2:44 pm

Ooooh, he’s tummular!

22 Sara 06.13.08 at 3:25 pm

Doesn’t this also fall under the rule about “a thing, accompanied by a smaller version of that thing”?

23 Katrina 06.13.08 at 3:44 pm

Thank you cowdoctor, now I know why puppies and kittens are so susceptible and almost always have them.

So, no, the worms aren’t cute but the tummmy is!

24 Juniper Jupiter 06.13.08 at 4:05 pm

Kinda hard to be dramatic with a paunch like that, eh? :D

25 Winni-Pig 06.13.08 at 4:08 pm

Stubbular tail!!

And, “oh mommie, you KNOW how much I love you! Just a little bite??”

26 Jenn 06.13.08 at 4:10 pm

Wouldn’t mind a COXCU of the paw-to-paw action there, too. “Put your little hand in mine…”

27 CaroL 06.13.08 at 4:10 pm

I wish the “gut rule” applied to humans….I’d be the cutest thing going! ;)

28 heidi 06.13.08 at 4:20 pm

hmmmm. This new rule is suspiciously similar to #38 re: curved, plump bellehs…

29 Ameri 06.13.08 at 4:55 pm

Chubby tummys are more fun to poke ;)

30 Maria 06.13.08 at 5:06 pm

cute, yes. possibility of fat tummy = worms, yes.

31 nismo 06.13.08 at 5:49 pm

That little tail is far cuter. I want to touch it.

32 berthaservant 06.13.08 at 6:16 pm

Can I just say the real cuteness is that WE HAVE PROOF THAT PRAIRIE DOGS HAVE DANCE LESSONS!!!!

Thank you. I said it.

33 BBM 06.13.08 at 6:18 pm

CUTE! I love chubby bellehs…even my hubby’s belleh which I call my personal “porta-pillow”, it comes in handy when I need a nap.

34 Jupiter Star 06.13.08 at 6:19 pm

My mother HATES prarie dogs (some genius in my hometown decided to relocate them all to an empty field across the street from two schools and they overran her playground to the point where it was declared a biohazard and the school had to be closed until the school board could figure out where to relocate them again in the face of all the PETA people screaming that they were traumatizing the poor animals by moving them a second time), HATES them like no other. And even she squealed over this picture.

The tiny tummeh triumphs!

35 zeldapie 06.13.08 at 7:03 pm

Pudgie Wudgie!!

36 Meggy 06.13.08 at 7:06 pm

I have to disagree with Meg on this one–poochy tummies on adult humans can be cute too!

37 cosmiquemuffin 06.13.08 at 7:55 pm

Am I the only one who noticed the cuteness quotient of mama’s fur-pants gutulence?

…okay, back to lion-cam.

38 jazz 06.13.08 at 8:30 pm

isn’t rule #40 basically the same as rule #38?

39 jmuhj 06.13.08 at 8:38 pm

Yeah, alcohol sucks. And so do people who drink it!

40 Theo 06.13.08 at 8:40 pm

Jmuhj — ohhhhhhh NO you don’t. Not on Friday!
http://teho.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252668128e1d00d09e50469ebe2b.html

41 crystal 06.13.08 at 9:07 pm

Why has no one mentioned the neck and arm rolls on the mom? … And let’s not neglect the teeny tiny ears!

42 TheBladeRoden 06.13.08 at 9:31 pm

“Rule of Cuteness #40! A lil’ bulging gut is cute”

That’s what I keep trying to tell the ladies! That, and that I really don’t have round worms

43 amyj 06.13.08 at 9:53 pm

I think I see a subtle difference between rule #38 and rule #40 – bulging as opposed to curving maybe? Two different kinds of plump, both soft and fluffy and waiting for my nose to be buried in them. This little guy’s tummy poops right out of his body, totally bulging, as opposed to the perfect curve of kitty #38’s belleh.

Anyone?

44 Juniper Jupiter 06.13.08 at 10:11 pm

WHOA, jmuhj…just a little bit holier-than-thou today are we?

I have a sister who is JUST starting to be a “recovering alcoholic”…this after “bottoming out” THREE times. Bottoming out=basically losing all faculties and needing to go to the hospital because of it. The third time this happened we thought we were going to lose her because she had done so much damage to herself that they had to put her in a drug-induced coma for two weeks…and she told them that if it didn’t heal her enough to have her breathe on her own to go on ahead and pull the plug. This happened just after my 29th birthday and just two months before her 50th. This happened five years ago, but she’s been sober just under a year now, and now has Alcohol-related Dementia. Yes, she did do this to herself, and I really don’t have full knowledge WHY she became an alcoholic (only she does), but I love her to pieces and I’ll be DAMNED if anybody gets in my face and gets all high’n'mighty about people sucking just because of his or her choice of vice.

To this day, though, I’m STILL surprised she’s alive, despite liquefying her liver, and NEVER driving drunk. Never!

The Dementia thing was just found out yesterday.

45 hayhay 06.13.08 at 10:55 pm

does this mean I’m bleening cute, i gots a bulging tummeh to :P

46 Hannah 06.13.08 at 11:16 pm

I am now official cute-ed out! And the hubby beer belly comment got me rolling.

47 mandi 06.13.08 at 11:16 pm

alcohol schmalcohol…that’s not what counts here, it’s the fat mini-mammal tummy. I love me some fat little tummies!

48 Jewelia 06.14.08 at 12:00 am

cowdoctor: My tummy bulges a little, does that mean I have roundworms? ;)

49 Xenobiologista 06.14.08 at 12:24 am

My lab-mate was doing virus experiments in prairie dogs and felt bad about making them sick, she complained that I was torturing her by sending her cute photos of PDs. Debating whether or not to send this one, she’s gonna kill me…

50 ugh 06.14.08 at 5:25 am

stay away from the poop, unless you want worms that is.

51 binky-mama 06.14.08 at 6:55 am

Juniper Jupiter- I’m so sorry to hear about your sister. Addiction is a disease and I wish more people understood that you don’t just “snap out of it”. Sending positive thoughts your way…

On a lighter note- Mama NEEDS to be wearing a gingham apron.

52 Katrina 06.14.08 at 10:40 am

Juniper Jupiter- Odd, isn’t it, that there are some wildly varying opinions on the subject of alcohol, and yet, when a loved on has the disease of Alcoholism people are so silent.
I wish you strength and I wish your sister hope and willingness to heal. You are her advocate, and your comment here is an indication that you are most probably a really good one.
Hang in there- there are many of us ‘walking wounded’, bystanders in one of the most insidious and family-damaging diseases of all time. Keep talking, keep sharing. Keep spreading hope!

53 Ginger 06.14.08 at 11:08 am

Being a ‘Friend of Bill W’, can I just say that AA works and my family are living proof!

Also I need Prairie Dogs Anonymous coz those things are so darn cute, I am getting a Cuteoverload Co-dependency relationship with fluffy, furry things on the internet!

I miss my late hammie too :(

54 SSsss! 06.14.08 at 11:43 am

eets naht ah tumor…

55 Subhangi 06.14.08 at 1:47 pm

MILK BELLEH!!!

56 Katrina 06.14.08 at 8:46 pm

I’m sorry, SSsss, what did you just write? In English this time, please.

57 Jae 06.15.08 at 12:11 am

Chubby tummies are cute, regardless of the age! Or species! :)

58 Lerrinus 06.15.08 at 2:11 am

Lol! SSsss! I think the Ah-nold nails it! :-D

59 SSsss! 06.15.08 at 4:48 pm

Try reading it phonetically, Katrina.

60 Anasztaizia 06.15.08 at 8:21 pm

My hubby was very sad to hear that beer bellies aren’t cute =P

61 Theo 06.16.08 at 12:11 pm

Katrina: Ahhl be bahhk.

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