Step one: Toss the hedgehog

by Meg on March 31, 2009

Step Two: See how close you can roll bocce balls towards the hedge

Step Three: Whomevah gets their ball closedt to the hedge wins a golden toilet paper tube trophy

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Hopefully the hedge will stay still for the whole game. If he moves, throw him again!

{ 54 comments }

1 Katrina 03.31.09 at 8:28 pm

Oh!

2 Theo 03.31.09 at 8:30 pm

“I drive a truck…”

3 Estlin 03.31.09 at 8:30 pm

He’s too cute to toss.

4 joe 03.31.09 at 8:30 pm

not a very nice idea to put into peoples heads

5 Paunchie 03.31.09 at 8:31 pm

here come the nuffers! Don’t toss Chuck, meanies!

6 Beca 03.31.09 at 8:32 pm

What a cute little baby! If you are going to toss him, toss him to me!

7 Von Zeppelin 03.31.09 at 8:34 pm

Aren’t you supposed to smack them around the lawn with croquet mallets?

8 DCH 03.31.09 at 8:37 pm

you tossers!

9 Jennie Mello 03.31.09 at 8:40 pm

I really like how he is all ears and nose. And spines. snuff snuff snuff…

10 Holy Cuteness 03.31.09 at 8:41 pm

Awww, i love little hedgies!

11 Alexis 03.31.09 at 8:41 pm

Hedgehogs + a mention of bocce = favorite thing ever!

12 Kit 03.31.09 at 8:45 pm

Ahhn, I’ve forgotten which hedgie I tossed, they all look alike down there… plus I think someone’s may have wandered off during the game.

… Now where can I get a couple of flamingos too?

13 Szig 03.31.09 at 8:48 pm

Those ears!!! So yummy :)

14 Von Zeppelin 03.31.09 at 9:06 pm

@Kit–Ah, yes. Flamingos. I was misremembering my Alice. Ordinary croquet mallets wouldn’t be nearly surreal enough.

15 scooterpants 03.31.09 at 9:12 pm

dont they work better for hacky-sac?

16 Ezzy 03.31.09 at 9:13 pm

Hmm, that hedge doesn’t look like your typical African pygmy.

He does, however, look like the cutest boar-bristle hairbrush evah! Let’s all go get some flamingos.

17 starling 03.31.09 at 9:14 pm

What Von Zeppelin said!

OFFFFFF with her head!

18 nismo 03.31.09 at 9:17 pm

It’s a handful of hedgie.

19 chanpon 03.31.09 at 9:23 pm

The first time I ever noticed the little critters look like tawashi, which are used in Asia for scrubbing pots and stuff.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawashi ]

20 Argyle Donkeypants 03.31.09 at 9:36 pm

I’m a child of the 80s — I want to see him tuck into a ball and roll down tracks and tubes and collect rings. Go Sonic, go!

21 M. V. 03.31.09 at 9:40 pm

Chuck….LOL I like that. :D

22 Momcat 03.31.09 at 9:43 pm

“Chuck”! Laffin’ my head off!

23 Pheas 03.31.09 at 9:45 pm
24 Raemie L. 03.31.09 at 10:15 pm

I beep his nosicle for a bit of luck.

25 Bluemenro 03.31.09 at 10:31 pm

OMG, the ears! Teh EARS!

26 MrAtoz 03.31.09 at 10:36 pm

Not bocce, petanque! Petanque is the French game that is more or less the same as bocce. In that game, the little ball is called the “cochonnet” or “piglet”. Clearly, if you don’t have a conveniently-sized piglet handy, you could use a hedgehog like this!

27 Lerrinus 03.31.09 at 10:37 pm

Aw! He’s just a little handful! So cute!

28 berthaservant 03.31.09 at 10:46 pm

huh huh

hedge

29 Cholmondeley 03.31.09 at 11:11 pm

Wait… what are the rules to this game, now? You say you roll the bocce (or petanque, whatevs) ball towards the hedge, but when does the aforementioned tossing take place? And who could stand to let go of those darling earsies and nosicle?

30 Joy 03.31.09 at 11:12 pm

That’s definitely a young one – probably 3-4 weeks old. looks like an European hedgehog – too brown for an African hedgehog. Very cute – nothing like a baby hedgie to warm the heart.

31 unci 03.31.09 at 11:20 pm

toss a hedgehog against a styrofoam ceiling to see if he gets stuck?

32 Nik 04.01.09 at 12:27 am

And after your hedgie toss, you can also use him as a Ped-Egg. He’s perfect for exfoliating!

33 superboymom 04.01.09 at 12:52 am

Teeny-tiny-hedgie-wedgiekins!

34 kibblenibble 04.01.09 at 2:22 am

Never knew there were so many uses for a hedgie! :o )

35 cp 04.01.09 at 2:32 am

SO MEAN! I hope people aren’t tupid enough to try this, but I’m not so sure.

36 joha 04.01.09 at 2:35 am

I think the hedgie is a Middle Eastern Long-Eared hedgehog. GOD they are cute.

37 Stevo 04.01.09 at 2:35 am

I don’t mean to be a spoilsport but….. I don’t think this caption is at all in sympathy with the rest of this site. I completely realise it’s only a joke and the person doesn’t seriously want to do this etc etc etc. It’s just that I don’t visit this site to read stuff like that, unless “suitable size for pretending to throw” entered the Rules of Cuteness recently. I vote for removal to preserve the integrity of cute overload. Plenty of other sites to put stuff like this.

38 Steveo 04.01.09 at 3:58 am

Sorry, accidental triple post!

39 Theo 04.01.09 at 4:46 am

Stevo — I cleaned up your duplicate posts, but as for your other issues, I ain’t touchin’ ‘em.

40 Cordelia 04.01.09 at 5:16 am

LOl – so cute! He looks like a little koosh ball! http://justinnewitter.com/stock/Orange_Koosh_Ball.JPG

41 Kiddo 04.01.09 at 11:54 am

This site never fails to make me smile.

42 aloria 04.01.09 at 2:48 pm

TIS CUTE HEDGIE!!! um, if jokes about tossing animals offend you, perhaps grow thicker skin. Preferably with spikes and moist nosicles!

43 Kim 04.01.09 at 7:39 pm

This caption is HORRIBLE in a so not funny way.

44 Melissa H. 04.01.09 at 11:58 pm

I call nuffer-baiting! You bad girl, Meg, messing with people. They can’t help that they have no sense of humor. It’s a sad affliction, and science just isn’t doing enough to find a cure. (sigh) :D

45 Brian 04.02.09 at 12:05 am

Some people just never read Alice in Wonderland…

46 Katzini 04.02.09 at 12:35 am

LOL – I had the same thought when I read that caption.
“Now I know what they play when when all the flamingos have have walked off…”
They could use the dormouse, too – he’s asleep all the time anyway ;-)

47 meepers 04.02.09 at 4:36 am

Chuck the hedgehog. Cute. ^_^
*splort* whoopsie.

48 Melinda 04.02.09 at 1:16 pm

Nuffer-baiting!!! That’s the best! I think it should now be in my daily vocab- and it does have a tone of slight naughtiness, too. Meg, the Nuffer-baiter. Love it! Oh, and want that hedge. Now.

49 Megan 04.03.09 at 4:36 pm

Ok…I coach bocce for Special Olympics…and my athletes take things very literally…and they would cry at the thought of hitting a hedgie with a heavy bocce ball! However, I couldn’t help but lol when I imagined a bocce game with hedgies!

50 WTF? 04.04.09 at 12:24 am

I come onto this website to look at cute pictures of animals, and expect that everone else does too. This can really only mean that you all love animals? I accept that i am going to get smack for this, however I find it seriously disturbing that you would put captions and comments that are totally wrong and cruel? This is meant to be a nice website? And as for the People Eating Tasty Animals caption ive previously seen…?! Its crazy! I really could not care less if you all want to have a go at me for this because im sure there are some who agree with me.

51 Anonny 04.07.09 at 9:32 pm

I’ve never seen so many people get worked up over an alice in wonderland reference before.

52 Anonny 04.07.09 at 9:34 pm

>> I really could not care less if you all want to have a go at me for this because im sure there are some who agree with me.
Ladies and gentlemen, the internet: explained.

53 Melinda Fluffer 04.12.09 at 9:19 am

OMG! Don’t throw the hedgehog! That’s just MEAN!!!!!!!

54 lela 04.21.09 at 2:00 pm

YOU CAN NOT THROW HIM MEAN PLZ DONT!

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