The Chosen Baboon?!

by Meg on September 28, 2008

[Baboon #1:] He’s definitely the Chosen One from the ancient Baboon bible, Cheryl.
[Baboon #2:] No, no no Linda!—I think—he’s from the future.
[Baboon #3:] Wait, his ears look relatively normal [picks on an ear]
[Baboon #4:]
Wait. He looks like a Gunderson. He’s one of Phil’s kids. Never mind.

Baboons

Sender-Inner Johanna S., You’re BACK! (Like a lil’ pink baboon butt, you’re BACK!)

{ 38 comments }

1 Theresa 09.28.08 at 9:10 pm

Look for the bleeny birthmark!

2 Theresa 09.28.08 at 9:11 pm

PS looks *just* like my family when there’s a new baby. ;)

3 Jiffknee 09.28.08 at 9:14 pm

I like pink butts and I cannot lie . . .

bleen?

4 Alexandria 09.28.08 at 9:15 pm

Baboons have been hitting the crimping irons a little hard.

All they need are white fringe leather jackets and Whitesnake t-shirts.

5 BarbaraL 09.28.08 at 9:42 pm

It takes a village

(tee hee – so adorable!)

6 binky-mama 09.28.08 at 9:51 pm

Stop lookin’ at my ears! I TOLD you I’ll grow into them! Sheesh…like YOU guys were never bebeh baboons.

7 Jennie 09.28.08 at 10:06 pm

OK, so we have the 3 Kings, and little Monkey-Jesus, and we even have an ass… but where, pray tell, are the proud parents? And WHO is that mysterious Grey Baboon?

8 Cool Gecko 09.28.08 at 10:18 pm

The gray baboon is the shaman of the baboon village, Jennie.

9 Katrina 09.28.08 at 10:24 pm

Those crimping irons- tee-hee–be careful around the baby! The white one- Warren Beatty, of course!

Baboons creep me out, but that is MY problem, not theirs…

10 biscuithead 09.28.08 at 10:33 pm

@Jiffknee — I LOLd!

Glad to see some primates on CO.
Big nom-worthy ears, the plaintive eyes + the familiarity of the scene make me appreciate the DNA we share from our common ancestors.

11 biscuithead 09.28.08 at 10:37 pm

@Katrina

*Gasp*
That IS Warren Baboon Beatty!

I love it when we can match humans with their ape twins!
LMAO!

12 Cheryl 09.28.08 at 10:43 pm

LOL!! That is some of the funniest captioning I’ve ever seen on this site. Very “Far Side.”

Kudos!

13 Von Zeppelin 09.28.08 at 10:44 pm

I’m not sure sure about Warren Beatty. That silver-maned baboon patriarch looks like Kenny Rogers to me. Or possibly Sean Connery in “The Hunt for Red October,” when he wore Kenny Rogers’ hair.

14 Elaine 09.28.08 at 10:55 pm

no, no. i think the silver baboon is Cher.

15 Alex 09.28.08 at 11:22 pm

OMG, it’s a *baby*. That’s not what I come here for! I come here to see *animals*!

….sorry, is that joke played out?

16 260Oakley 09.28.08 at 11:35 pm

Hmm, I think Senor Grey-Hair has been hanging out at Spanking Kitty’s house. His b.boon ‘tocks are looking a little raw. But then he’s been known to get a little behind in his work.

17 Gracie 09.28.08 at 11:51 pm

the adults are saying, “look Junior, we KNOW you have some leftover trick or treat candy somewhere….”

18 mandi 09.29.08 at 12:28 am

I couldn’t decide if we were looking at the baby or the awesome crimp action on the white baboon. I like them both!

19 Jewelz_4_U 09.29.08 at 12:33 am

Oh, Meggy McMeggersons!!
CO NEVER fails to make me smile and squee, but THIS!! THIS photo/caption combo made me truly, literally Laugh Out Loud. It caused a scene.
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

20 chanpon 09.29.08 at 12:53 am

Stick them under a sink for showering and then we’re talking!

21 scooterpants 09.29.08 at 1:56 am

don get the commentary.
hmmmpphhh.
must be outta the loop?
kEyoutoot babe though.

22 momof2kitties 09.29.08 at 2:16 am

@scooterpants:

Go back to “and now, a word from our sponsor” and “sunday monkey washing” and some of this thread will begin to make sense to you. Of course, I read all of that and sometimes this stuff still doesn’t make sense to me! ‘Tis the beauty that is CO,
I suppose.

23 berthaservant 09.29.08 at 2:22 am

I’m pretty sure it’s Beatty ’cause Carly Simon just wrote a song about him.

24 fansmom 09.29.08 at 2:40 am

So little cutie is going to work at Phil Gunderson’s funeral home when he grows up?
http://www.gundersonfuneralhome.com/phil_gunderson.html

25 Totalee Puppy 09.29.08 at 2:57 am

“I went to the animal fair,
and what do you think was there…
a big baboon by the light of the moon…
was combing his silver hair”…

26 ffleur 09.29.08 at 4:16 am

Baby ‘boon: Look, you can’t ALL be my mother and I’m pretty sure you, Mr Silver Hair, are a daddy so will you 3 ladies just decide and then give me some milk? I’m getting hungry here.

27 NebulousGrey 09.29.08 at 4:41 am

And there goes my soda, all over the ‘puter screen.

My nose, it hurts from that giant snort of laughter. Hee.
:D

28 L.C. 09.29.08 at 7:06 am

ok can we please discuss the crimpage on the fur?! ahhhhhh!!!

29 SoCalSis 09.29.08 at 1:11 pm

No, it’s not Warren Beatty, but Warren probably thinks it is…

30 Theo 09.29.08 at 1:18 pm

SoCalSis — I’m going to be singing that all day, aren’t I? Aren’t I? Aren’t I?

31 Katrina 09.29.08 at 1:57 pm

Yeah, well singing that song isn’t as bad as being on a diet and thinking about Theo’s Triple Chocolate Snickerdoodles…..heaven help me, I will resist.

Hey Theo we could really use a cute picture of a Corgi puppy- got any of those stashed somewhere?

32 Theresa 09.29.08 at 2:24 pm

You’re ALL wrong, it’s Bonnie Tyler!

33 Theresa 09.29.08 at 2:25 pm

PS, One of the most peaceful sights I ever saw was a mom baboon grooming her baby in the Bronx Zoo. They were just blissful. You’d never see a human kid sit still for that like the bebeh baboon did.

34 Brenda 09.29.08 at 2:43 pm

Hilarious! He’s all ears! :)

35 Kris 09.29.08 at 4:01 pm

And yet, no one said – “Asante sanna, squashed banana…” I think of that every time I see a Baboon!

36 Christina 09.29.08 at 6:23 pm

I’m waiting for the senior one to hoist up the baby to the swells of Circle of Life.

37 Londoner 09.30.08 at 11:03 am

Awwww! Such a little anxious face…”Tell me, papa, that the world is not a scary place and that the humans won’t have messed it all up by the time I’m grown…”

38 sunnymum 09.30.08 at 5:48 pm

Too late Londoner… way too late.

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