Have a productive Memorial Day

by Meg on May 25, 2009

Whether you’re remembering brave folks who gave their lives for their country or stuffing your schnozzle into a toilet paper tube, we wish you a productive day.

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Penny the hedge brought to you by Ginny L.

{ 40 comments }

1 Shaz 05.25.09 at 10:24 am

At least someone finds those useful!

2 Sissy 05.25.09 at 10:31 am

Glad they come in “handy” for something after the paper’s all gone.

And yes, please thank a vet today. . . .

3 chanpon 05.25.09 at 10:42 am

Like moths to a flame…*tsk tsk*

4 Theresa 05.25.09 at 10:47 am

This day is not supposed to be “productive” in the usual sense. It’s supposed to be contemplative. Do you hear me, li’l hedgie?

5 Katrina 05.25.09 at 10:58 am

Tunnel vision.

6 BonzoGal 05.25.09 at 11:10 am

I’m doing BOTH!

7 thepetmuseum 05.25.09 at 11:14 am

A one-hedgehog salute!

8 kasia 05.25.09 at 11:23 am

i always wonder if the hedges are in pain when someone takes the tube off them, what with the bristles going in the opposite direction and probably digging into the cardboard!?

9 Hilde 05.25.09 at 11:29 am

What’s up with hedges and toilet paper tubes?

10 kibblenibble 05.25.09 at 11:37 am

kasia, interesting thought. Do the quills or bristles poke the hedgie the same way they poke us? I know my little parrot was poked by her own pinfeathers if they were touched the wrong way. Anyway, cute pics. Funny little feets and nosie.

11 platedlizard 05.25.09 at 11:37 am

@ Hilde: The same thing that’s up with cats and boxes, I think.

12 edward 05.25.09 at 11:46 am

If Absent Friends, and all the sailors still at sea, were with us today, they’d want a burger or a hot dog off the grill, an ice-cold beer, maybe a messy dessert and a game of frisbee. This lovely little hedgie is having fun, enjoying himself, and feeling safe and loved. More power to him.

My best today to all who served.

13 gfeeser 05.25.09 at 11:52 am

Thank you for the thoughts, Penny.

14 Jennie Mello 05.25.09 at 12:49 pm

I was hoping for a boxhab picture, but this is close enough.
My hub and I have packed over 200 boxes, as we are moving tomorrow. I am about to cry from exhaustion, and I needed my COXF (Cute Overload eXtreme Fix).

15 Wombats 05.25.09 at 1:05 pm

Not only will I remember my great-uncle, the World War II veteran, I weel remberes this little toilet paper roll obsessed hedgie.

16 meh 05.25.09 at 2:18 pm

LOL looks like someone’s been reading from the column on back of Penny Pincher-type of free “papers”:
How to have fun for freeeeeee!

17 Lucas 05.25.09 at 2:44 pm

haha, this HARDLY looks productive! More counter productive than anything!

18 Estlin 05.25.09 at 3:02 pm

This is the Maru of hedgehogs.

19 Katrina 05.25.09 at 3:12 pm

Estlin- so true!

20 Rani 05.25.09 at 3:37 pm

“Well, this is just not working out like I expected it to.”

21 FUN ♥ CUTE STUFF@ 05.25.09 at 3:37 pm

Good use for something useless ! ( I guess anyway)!

22 Ruth 05.25.09 at 4:12 pm

Awwwwwww huge snorgle possibilities !

23 berthaservant 05.25.09 at 4:37 pm

Quite surreal as a Memorial Day post.

24 Woods Walker 05.25.09 at 4:42 pm

To bad my computer skills are not very good. For the American Legion Memorial Day celebration there was a contest to decorate bicycles and golf carts. The golf cart that won first place was a toy one driven by a four year old. Maybe I will have somebody help me down load it later.-Woods Walker

25 pfftlecakes 05.25.09 at 5:54 pm

I wan’ to shtick my face in the open end and shnorgle this adorabibble prickle-butt.

Seriously.

26 puddlepeppers 05.25.09 at 7:58 pm

Would like to dedicate this song of the US Army to all people in the service
and to all veterans and to the hedgie who somehow made my day:
“Over hill, over dale, as we hit the dusty trail,
and the caissons go ROLLing along…”
*O0<

27 Sharon Wilson 05.25.09 at 9:04 pm

For it’s hi, hi, hee, and the hedgehog is sillee…

28 T.U.M. 05.25.09 at 9:07 pm

Benson Hedges, Private Eye, looks everywhere for clues – including down the toilet paper roll.

29 Tara 05.25.09 at 10:50 pm

I own a hedgie hog. and they’re sweet.

The prickles don’t hurt, they make my hands itchy. and her tongue is so long. like two inches! and it’s soft.

They’re so cute when you turn on a light and catch them, they just pause and look at you like, dammit..so close!

30 hon glad 05.25.09 at 11:58 pm

This is not a pipe either.

31 Zorbs 05.26.09 at 2:41 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK0l2tqFDvM

“Boogie boogie hedgehog, eating on a carrot, got your head stuck in a toilet paper tube.”

32 Michael Claymore 05.26.09 at 3:24 am

The poor bugger!

33 wannadance 05.26.09 at 4:05 am

‘call out your numbers loud and strong: boogie, boogie!”

34 Kimberly 05.26.09 at 7:43 am

Kasia, the spines lay flat when they stick their heads in the tube, when you pull the tube off it just slides right off and doesn’t hurt them at all. I normally only pull the tube off of my little fella when I’m ready to put him back in his cage (tube time happens in a plastic kiddie wading pool). If I remove the tube from him during playtime he is FOR SURE just going to stick his head immediately back in it. He is a hog obsessed.

35 heather 05.26.09 at 4:21 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
that is so funny and cute

36 free virtual world for kids 05.26.09 at 8:59 pm

I realised hedgehogs love to play with toilet roll cores. They look super cute when they’re playing. How i wish i have one. @.@

37 Marrie 05.27.09 at 4:03 pm

omg! lol! just like a pic i saw “u tube your doing it wrong!!!!!!” hahahahahahahahaha love it!

38 rumnup 05.27.09 at 4:08 pm

this is my favorite parry gripp video!

39 Ginny 05.27.09 at 8:58 pm

Penny would like everyone to know she spent Memorial Day sleeping in her tent, saving up her energy for sneaky wheel-running whenever we’re not looking! Also dreaming of mealworm BBQ.

40 Mama Kline 05.28.09 at 11:50 am

What adorable pictures. Ginny you are very talented!!! Love, Mom

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