Wow, they’re handing out big buttons at that polling place.
This ermine stoat guy was previously posted
Wow, they’re handing out big buttons at that polling place.
This ermine stoat guy was previously posted
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Yay! I voted like a stoat on Saturday. We have an all mail-in election here in Washington. I kinda miss going to the polls and getting that “I Voted” sticker.
*gaspity gasp!* Naughty Wibbler! Teho’s gonna get you! O_O
LOL!
And I see this time we have enough asterisks to spell a word.
I voted, got my free Starbux coffee, plan on getting my free Ben & Jerry’s scoop, and maybe this evening I’ll go for my free tequila shot at Pink Taco. What a great country this is!
Get voting or I’ll stick my teefs in you.
Perhaps I will get my free ChickFilA tonight for dinner!
I got a sticker Friday when I dropped my ballot off at the early voting location. But I forgot to put it on today. Oh well…
I can’t wait for this @#&%$ election to be over. We had another political call this morning, for crying out loud. Yes, we KNOW it’s election day today. You have been calling us every day for the last freakin’ month to tell us that!!!
This looks ’shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels, and from having seen a few ’shops in my day.
I voted in Florida, and there wasn’t a chad to be seen. Hooray!
PROUDLY wearing my I Voted sticker.
I vaguely remember when I didn’t know what a stoat was. (horror) Thanks Meg.
IS a nice Shop or Chop job(I am assuming there is a difference between those two terms either way it looks good)… and I have yet to vote like a stoat…I am going right after work. I love to pull the lever!!! I go every year and vote.
Free donuts at Krispy Kreme, too (at “participating stores”). But my polling place didn’t have any stickers. No stoats either.
AuntieMame said: “I can’t wait for this @#&%$ election to be over. We had another political call this morning, for crying out loud. Yes, we KNOW it’s election day today. You have been calling us every day for the last freakin’ month to tell us that!!!”
Amen… ARGH. I get calls specifically from one party. I swear if they call again (and I wouldn’t be too surprised), I’m gonna tell ‘em I’m gonna vote for the other party out of spite.
I can’t vote till this afternoon. I hope I can keep the stoats at bay for that long…
Frosty the stoatman, cast a jolly happy vote
He got a free coffee and a button nose
But he wanted a rootbeer float.
Frosty the stoatman has a hairy tail they say
And the children say they too will vote one day
Just the same as you and me.
Stumpetty stump stump
Stumpetty stump stump
i voted… so, um, where do i pick up my stoat?
Are you sure an ermine is the same thing as a stoat? **narrows eyes suspiciously** I suspect stoater registration fraud!
I voted absentee like a … uh… baby bee?
You know, on that previous post about trivia, I saw the title first and I was expecting some kind of furry atomic wedgie or something, which would have been pretty funny. Darn.
That stoat has Hershey Kiss eyes.
I voted last week. I can’t wait to see what happens!!
I voted this morning. Took only 3 hours.
I wanted to thank whoever posted the link to Maru’s blog back on the boxhab kitteh… I checked it out today and I noticed there are now (hilarious) English translations on the most recent posts.
I saw the earliep post and wondered why this little fellow was not in it. I think the toast probably tasted better then the button, but the aftertaste will be sweet!
*blush* Some place in Seattle and New York is also offering free um, “adult toys” to voters. Now there’s a reason to go vote!!!
Pyrit – that was awesome!!!
Went to polling place at 7:15, waited 2 hours.
After I made the selection for presidential candidates, I stared at it like an idiot for half a minute before I hit the “vote” button. Sort of like after you dropped a letter in the mailbox, you tilt back the tray just to make sure the letter didn’t somehow stick to the tray.
Of course afterwords I realize I did not put down my choices for senate and house (I blame it on antiquated, non-user friendly machine).
Little stoat, little stoat,
that button of red and white,
Looks so good against thy pristine coat.
Do implore and urge us on to vote.
Or any change may be remote.
For peeps who haven’t voted yet:
Call 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) if you encounter ANYONE trying to prevent you from voting. Do NOT listen to lies about different parties voting on different days. Protect your rights!
http://www.866ourvote.org/
I voted!
No coffee, no stickers, no stoats, no Krispy Kremes, no nuthin’. Just a paper ballot and a dumb ol’ black ballpoint pen. And a lady at the seat next to me with a horrendous case of the snotty, runny, sniffles. I warned the next guy that sat down to wash his hands VERY WELL after handling that pen. Ulk.
But, still…I VOTED!!! w00t!!!! Winston/Maru ‘08!!! A mouse in every pot!
I remember the original pic. I made it into a forum avatar. Tempted to do the same with this after I get back from voting/Thai food tonight!
White face + black nose-n-whiskers = instant terminal cuteness meltdown
And then the teef! The TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF!
Oooh, this is now my Facebook picture. Hope no one minds!!!
You know, I don’t mind the “stumpity stump stump” earworm one bit.
@momof2kitties “Winston/Maru ‘08!!! A mouse in every pot!”
Okay, someone needs to make these t-shirts!!
His eyes look like chocolate chips! Yum!
Oh YAY!!! I’ve been wanting my stoat since I early voted last week. I KNEW CO would come through for me.
Get out there peeps, and VOTE!!! Vote like your life depends on it (it does!!). Vote like it’s the most important thing you’ll do all year (it IS!!).
And finally , in the inmmortal words of I don’t rmember who, but he was a funny guy: VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN!
Scientific name of stoat=
Mustela erminea.
yay! you voted! :]
Is anyone else too nervous to concentrate today?
Sorry, were you talking to me?
@ Kris:
Ha, I was just coming here to say I did the same thing. Yay for Facebook.
Stands up And Claps for PYRIT… this could be the most productive ear worm… catchy and handles the voting issue.
Prepares the reader for winter soon to appear.
Stumpity stump stump
Stumpity Stump Stump
Look at **Insert Candidate of your Choice here** go
Stumpity stump stump Stumpity stump stump. Off to the voter boths we go!
Meter, Annie! *tsk* …”polls” instead of “voter booths”?
(you’re on your own for the candidate names)
Decca – yes! I’m thinking of calling in quits and going home early to glue myself to the TV, ’cause I haven’t got one darn thing done today.
All I know if I see one “____ 2012″ banner, I’m going to lose it. Stoats beware!
@Decca: I’m much too distracted by reading all the awesome trivia contest entries to allow the election to distract me from work.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who can’t concentrate today…this is going to be a nerve-wracking evening. Looking forward to curling up on the couch with a cat and a glass of pinot. No stoats here!
I put this on the last stoat posting – but all the free stuff offered on election day is, by law, available to everyone. With or without your sticker! So go to Starbucks and get good and caffeinated!
CP — i don’t think the fact that it’s ’shopped is supposed to be a secret.
**MERCHANDISING OPPORTUNITY ALERT**
Little McStoatersons on a T-shirt. I don’t want one, I NEED ONE!!!!!!!
and/or
Winston/Maru ‘08 T-shirts, mugs, fuzzy slippers, tea cozies
Seven Paws – Amen to that!!! I don’t know if I can even have the TV on while doing the house cleaning. Don’t want to accidentally vacuum up one of the kittehs!
Theo – I already messed up the meter (“too” – ergh), so Annie’s free to be a meter messer.
Nice work, Annie!
Meanwhile, at my house, the fur-kids are voting along party lines. The kittehs, all staunch Democats, voted for Purrack, while the dogs, true to their Repuplican roots, voted for McCanine.
Heading to the backyard, we find the local skinks and anoles have voted Lizartarian, while the frogs voted Green, although as one put it, “it isn’t easy.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Pheas is *BACK*. [applause]
Now I really must be going; I have a backlog of pun groans to discharge.
(oh and Annie, drop me a mocha & I’ll let it slide)
LOL at Pheas!
EVERYONE is voting and stoating! Yay America!
AS IF we didn’t all have enough reasons to vote, this little guy would get me to the polling places just so I could smile and say, “AWWWWWWWWW!”
LOL Teho And Pyrit.
I Plead posting in stealth mode at the fromt desk.
as to my METER Messing.
BTW I just came back from Voting..
Where is my STOAT?
Chewie helped me vote!
http://thelittlestwookie.blogspot.com/2008/11/chewie-really-wants-you-to-vote.html
I was considering voting – really I was. Civic duty and all that jazz. Two things prevented me from doing so (quite aside from an overwhelming sense of ennui resulting from campaigns that appear to have gone on longer than the 100 Years War):
1. Not one (not a single one!) polling station had stoats, weasels, ermines, polecats, or ferrets to snorgle, in flagrant violation of the Stoater Voter constitutional amendment passed after the 2004 elections. I did call the local Electoral Commission and they pretended not to know anything about it. This is clearly an attempt by the Anti-Fuffy Party to steal the election. Someone should be told.
2. The small matter of citizenship. I told the people at the polling station that because of the international importance of making sure that the right person became the president, the fact that I’m not a US citizen should make no difference. Also that neither of the candidates on offer could be trusted to make sensible decisions on the issues of the day (global warming, an alarming lack of snorgles at the polling stations, the middle-east peace process) and therefore if behooved me, as a citizen of the world and someone who realises the importance of things like habitats for Knut and his brethren, to run as the 3rd candidate (Ralph Nader having met with an unfortunate accident only this morning, when he cut off all his limbs with an electric carving knife while pouring milk on his Cocoa Pebbles). They were unable to see the logic. What’s wrong with these people?!
Well, you know, Tony. Bureaucrats…
I’m just having fun imagining Tony J. *behooved*.
clipclop clipclop clipclop
(OK yes, I’m banging two coconut shells together, what of it?)
@TonyJ: The “Anti-Fuffy Party”—LOL, I think I can imagine *which* party that is!
BTW, here’s some fun accessories courtesy of Bill Maher for any of you peeps having election parties:
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/downloads/
First, BEST TITLE EVAR !
I would have liked a sticker that said “Guess Who Voted B****es?!” instead of something that just said “I Voted!”.
Secondly, I couldn’t concentrate and also I felt a little sick with nerves.
Lastly, yes, here in Seattle Babeland is giving away, em, toys on Election Day. We like to vote with style in the Jet City.
Minya — it’s the Space Needle. The local collective unconscious can’t help but be a bit phallic. Paris, DC and Toronto have the same problem. Oh, and London, but to a lesser degree.
Having voted by absentee ballot during the first 7 years of my voting life, it was a shock to go to the polls to vote. This year, I didn’t want to face the overwhelming crowd, horrific traffic backups, overeager supporters waving their placards, I opted to vote by absentee ballot, in the peace of the local town clerk’s office. I do vote faithfully, but not necessarily in person. This stoat, I would have gladly carried him in.
The local collective unconscious can’t help but be a bit phallic.
Theo-tell me about it!!
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It’s over. Hallelujah.
Hehe, I really like this stoat. [replaces small "I Voted" sticker with this stoat + button] Actually, I’ll just take the stoat–ifyoudontmind. *runs off*
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