THIS JUST IN: Panda ‘Tocks

by Meg on March 15, 2009

Some choice panda shots arrived in the fluffy pink C.O. Mailbag (delivered daily by white swans with tiny mailman hats) today from our Uncle John. :D

First up we have this "HANG IN THERE" Ranger-Rick style poster:

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Next up is: "’Tocks on a Log."

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And lastly, your moment of zen:

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1 Babelglyph 03.15.09 at 10:07 pm

Zenpanda. <3

2 Babelglyph 03.15.09 at 10:08 pm

whoa, bleen! *celebrates with bamboo tea*

3 Amanda 03.15.09 at 10:09 pm

Ahn!

4 Lindz 03.15.09 at 10:10 pm

GAHHHH!!! I want one!

5 Cin 03.15.09 at 10:12 pm

This is exactly what I needed before sleep. <3

6 homer mariner 03.15.09 at 10:18 pm

Oh, this just totally made my day! I LOVE LOVE LOVE pandas. I’m grateful to live in San Diego where I can watch them often. SOooooo cute. The first one is my favorite, like he totally got high-centered on that brach.

7 Gail (the first one) 03.15.09 at 10:25 pm

Um, I think we need, nay, DEMAND a picture of the CO mailbag being delivered. Just ‘cuz…..

8 kibblenibble 03.15.09 at 10:33 pm

What rolls down stairs
Alone or in pairs?
Rolls over your neighbor’s dog?
What’s great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It’s log, log, log!
It’s log, it’s log!
It’s big, it’s heavy it’s wood!
It’s log, it’s log!
It’s better than bad, it’s good!

Thanks for the Ren and Stimpy earworm. I love them so. Oh, and cute panda pics.

9 chanpon 03.15.09 at 10:35 pm

This is exactly why pandas, especially baby ones, are THE cutest and funniest things on the face of this planet.

10 Alex 03.15.09 at 10:41 pm

Haha, a Ranger Rick reference, classic gen-x/gen-y nostalgia.

11 chanpon 03.15.09 at 10:42 pm

OMG, just watched that grape-crushing news lady. (O_O) Bwaahahahaha (though I hope she was alright).

12 Cambridge Rat Mom 03.15.09 at 10:51 pm

I am the panda ‘tocks! They don’t get much sweeter.

13 =bg= 03.15.09 at 10:55 pm

What’s better than Panda Tocks?

Nothing.

14 Katrina 03.15.09 at 10:56 pm

Be the bamboo! “double *snerk!*”

15 Sarah F. 03.15.09 at 11:01 pm

Right-click, Save “Moment of Zen” as desktop?

Or keep Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can”?

Decisions, decision.

16 foxy 03.15.09 at 11:03 pm

Zen panda is what I look like when meditating – all fluffy and round-like.

17 Crystal 03.15.09 at 11:05 pm

PROSH.

18 James 03.15.09 at 11:30 pm

best panda pics ever

19 laughingmuse 03.15.09 at 11:33 pm

I actualy wailed, “AAaaaAAAAaaaAAWWW!” out loud to this one. Wow.

Ridiculously cute. Seriously.

20 laughingmuse 03.15.09 at 11:34 pm

p.s. Nice call on the Ranger Rick! (blast from the past)

21 Leenk 03.15.09 at 11:36 pm

OMG, 4 awesome panda pics and Duke winning ACC tournament… best Sunday EVER!!!

22 P.Erasmus 03.15.09 at 11:50 pm

Who here cried when that Ewok died in Return of the Jedi?

23 Jackie-Life is beautiful blog 03.15.09 at 11:58 pm

Adorable pictures!!! Love your site!!!

24 Cutiemus 03.15.09 at 11:58 pm

I don’t even know what to say. I surrender!

25 chelonianmobile 03.16.09 at 12:04 am

Awww! Izzee gonna gwow up to be a Kung Fu Dragon Warrior? Izzee?

(Been watching Kung Fu Panda WAY too many times recently.)

26 Karrie 03.16.09 at 12:09 am

“tocks on logs” is the best… so just want to love on the half ewok/ half panda….

27 Fancy's Mum 03.16.09 at 12:35 am

My brain went “ummm grrrhh dohhhh wheeee awwwww” – takes quite a bit to silence me by these pics did it (for a moment!)

28 Fancy's Mum 03.16.09 at 12:35 am

My brain went “ummm grrrhh dohhhh wheeee awwwww” – takes quite a bit to silence me by these pics did it (for a moment!)

29 Fancy's Mum 03.16.09 at 12:35 am

My brain went “ummm grrrhh dohhhh wheeee awwwww” – takes quite a bit to silence me by these pics did it (for a moment!)

30 Fancy's Mum 03.16.09 at 12:35 am

My brain went “ummm grrrhh dohhhh wheeee awwwww” – takes quite a bit to silence me by these pics did it (for a moment!)

31 Fancy's Mum 03.16.09 at 12:35 am

My brain went “ummm grrrhh dohhhh wheeee awwwww” – takes quite a bit to silence me by these pics did it (for a moment!)

32 Fancy's Mum 03.16.09 at 12:35 am

My brain went “ummm grrrhh dohhhh wheeee awwwww” – takes quite a bit to silence me by these pics did it (for a moment!)

33 jen 03.16.09 at 1:08 am

omg that first shot is too much! aaaaaa!!!!

34 binky-mama 03.16.09 at 1:17 am

Dear God, how do the panda keepers get ANY work done? I would be fired after one day one the job, spent with my head tilted and “awwwing” ’till I lost my voice.

35 Lisa 03.16.09 at 1:19 am

Oh, FINE!! Just KILL me, why don’t you?!?!

36 Skrpune 03.16.09 at 1:31 am

That first picture totally looks like someone washed their panda & hung it out to dry!

37 yuna 03.16.09 at 1:36 am

They look too cute to function.

38 Ginger 03.16.09 at 1:37 am

I wuv how their heads are too big!

39 smigoo 03.16.09 at 2:10 am

哈哈 ,似乎它在沉思什么!

40 Sarah 03.16.09 at 2:40 am

the fluffy pink C.O. Mailbag (delivered daily by white swans with tiny mailman hats)
Well, white swans on Mondays. Tuesdays it’s lovebirds. Wednesday, budgerigars. Thursdays you’ve got turtledoves, Fridays assorted finches, Saturday gross/cute little featherless bebeh cockatiels in remote-controlled helicopters, and on Sunday, frogmouth owls!
I imagine the mailbag is knitted from the finest pink angora. In fact, it is the cousin of one of Ed Wood’s favourite sweaters.

41 dub1 03.16.09 at 3:26 am

Thanks to Meg for the panders + Log song reff, and to kibblenibble for the lyrics.
I will only add:
Log for Girls!
and my personal fave,
Civil War Log!

42 PJ 03.16.09 at 3:33 am

Between the panda and the hammy, the part of my brain (the cutular gyrus) that proceese teh cute, well it just ’sploded (mopping, mopping, mopping…)

43 LisaL 03.16.09 at 3:35 am

Yep, I just ’sploded all over the place *looks at the bloody mess*
It was worth it though, baby panda tocks are the roxxers!

44 cath 03.16.09 at 3:43 am

I had the same thought as Ginger. Zen panda seems to be 50% head by volume. is there a rule of cute about having a head that’s too big for your body?

45 cath 03.16.09 at 3:51 am

:O

I just found an old New York Times article about professional cute-ologists and their findings. It’s unsurprisingly similar to the rules of cute that the CO cuteologists have discovered.

It’s a lovely article. I recommend it to anyone else who hasn’t read it already.

Here’s a link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03cute.html

And here’s a quote: “Scientists who study the evolution of visual signaling have identified a wide and still expanding assortment of features and behaviors that make something look cute: bright forward-facing eyes set low on a big round face, a pair of big round ears, floppy limbs and a side-to-side, teeter-totter gait, among many others.”

46 totalee puppy 03.16.09 at 4:17 am

Thanks, Meg, for the panda
experience. At bedtime, it
beats hot chocolate with
mini marshmallows..with some whip cream…in my favorite Shamu mug…this is not working…

47 Annie 03.16.09 at 4:17 am

All four pics are a plethora of panda pugnacity.

48 Annie 03.16.09 at 4:19 am

LOL Totalee P Have some fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies.

49 pandasocks 03.16.09 at 4:56 am

Oh, wow! This is so adorable! Pannndas are one of my favorite ani-pals and this is now one of my favorite posts. Pannndas! *squee*

50 Subhangi 03.16.09 at 5:04 am

GAK!!! [dies]

51 claudia 03.16.09 at 5:45 am

awwwww

he’s just sitting there, thinking. :D

52 Katie 03.16.09 at 5:47 am

In the last one, his head is as big as the rest of his body!! How is this not a rule of cute?

53 Hon Glad 03.16.09 at 7:41 am

A perfect way to start my day, Panda pulchritude.

54 Raemie L. 03.16.09 at 9:07 am

So full of Qte, I feel faint…
Pic 1) I love that the first pic reminds me of Tare Panda!
http://tinyurl.com/c3vr8p
2) I guess the Ren and Stimpy ref is also a Gen-X and Gen-Y thing? :) I haven’t seen many eps though.
3) I’m just getting the surface meaning of the hovertext, the sound of the panda falling down the logs from the picture and in referring to the 2nd hovertext. Any cultural reference would be lost on me, if there is one. :\
4) Ah! Perfection!

55 val 03.16.09 at 9:41 am

Meg, I think storks, not swans, deliver babies

56 hapyymeal 03.16.09 at 10:53 am

cuteee panda! I love the first picture so much!

57 metsakins 03.16.09 at 12:30 pm

The only incentive I have to go to work is knowing I will still be able to see Panda tocks on the job. (Just downloading some forms, boss, I’ll be off the net in a minute. What does squee mean? oh you must have mis heard me, I said, gee what an interesting tax document this is.) (Okay, he’s definitely not buying that.)

58 metsakins 03.16.09 at 12:32 pm

one more thing…the image of log for girls keeps flashing before my eyes.

59 Kristabelle 03.16.09 at 1:51 pm

I love Pandas!!!! 3rd favorite cute animal – koalas, red pandas, regular pandas. LOVE!!!!

(now, if we were discussin non-cute animals, then leopards, lions and tigers would be the top three, but since we’re talking “cute”…)

60 meep 03.16.09 at 2:27 pm

I can see the hint of a (butt!) on the second one! adorable, somehow!

61 Floydie Bear 03.16.09 at 4:14 pm

OMG! This just instantly fixed my grumpy case of the Mondays! GUH!

62 hehe kitty 03.16.09 at 4:23 pm

This cuteness has killed me to DEATH.

I am utterly DED.

Thanks a lot.

63 Vicky 03.16.09 at 4:23 pm

I think I just died. <3

These pictures made my day/week/month/life complete ;____;

64 gryt 03.16.09 at 4:24 pm

Prosh overload.

65 laurel 03.16.09 at 5:46 pm

Oh happiness to see the panders. I like the second to last on one climbing down. I want one to squeeeeeeeeeeeeze.

66 kar 03.16.09 at 5:51 pm

For a teddy bear I had a beanbag panda. So I have an added pavlovian response to those cute fuzzy britches.

67 David (the first one) 03.16.09 at 5:56 pm

That’s some serious intensity in the last picture. Reminds me of all those Daruma paintings (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&q=daruma+painting&btnG=Search+Images ).

68 Katrina 03.16.09 at 5:56 pm

*Ouch* not so hard, laurel! He/she is full!

69 parkerj 03.16.09 at 7:38 pm

The little Panda looks so prosh and squishy…

I want to squuuueeze…..

70 WendyPinNJ 03.16.09 at 8:38 pm

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The ‘tocks have caused my head to asplode!!!!!!

“C.O. fluffy pink Mailbag (delivered daily by white swans with tiny mailman hats)!”
Oh me! Oh my! How perfect!

71 parkerj 03.16.09 at 9:00 pm

LOL the above posters are correct… his head is basically the size of the rest of his body. ***melts***

72 Jill-e-b 03.16.09 at 9:42 pm

Tocks on a Log is my favorite baby panda picture EVER. I’m not sure if he’s mostly fluff or fat, but he is AWESOME.

73 WickedWendy 03.16.09 at 10:01 pm

Love the Ren & Stimpy reference. I loved that little “commercial”! I used to sing along to it! Too funny!

74 Elsie 03.16.09 at 10:36 pm

Love the butt curvature in picture 2.
Very plumber-chic.

75 xenira 03.17.09 at 12:17 am

Panda crack!

76 Leilani 03.17.09 at 12:23 pm

Picture #1: The Persistence of Panda.

77 parkerj 03.17.09 at 12:32 pm

this is animal pr0n at its finest.. i can’t believe how many times i’ve come back to admire Panda tucks!

78 loosgroov 03.17.09 at 6:41 pm

oh. my. gawwwwwd.

79 shaz 03.17.09 at 9:31 pm

Sooooo cute!!!

80 Felisha 03.20.09 at 4:50 am

OMG! This just made my day soooo much better!

81 Lauralu 03.22.09 at 12:30 am

*Ish now ded*

82 luvtockehs 03.22.09 at 6:25 am

Dawwww, look at that second pic! Its tocks are, like, stickin out of its large white panties!

83 luvtockehs 03.22.09 at 6:27 am

Bytheway lauralu, how can you comment when your dead?
I mean, how can you die from cuteness anyway?

84 luvtockehs 03.22.09 at 6:30 am

Bytheway, lauralu, how can you comment on cuteness when youre ded? I mean, how can you die from cuteness anyway?

85 Brian H 04.01.09 at 6:01 am

CADIE sez hi.

86 bhef 04.02.09 at 7:12 pm

that is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!

87 Sparrow 04.05.09 at 8:14 pm

Tare-panda!!! How cute is that!!

88 hf080677 04.09.09 at 2:31 pm

I’m having the worst week ever, and still no matter how many times I look at these pics they cheer me up. Thanks for cheering me out of a bad place with your roundy rumpus, little panda bear!

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