Welcome to the C.O. Annual Picnic!

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on July 14, 2009

Well, hello there!  So glad you could make it!  Grab a plate, because we’ve got chips and guacamole, three kinds of potato salad, there’s a lovely bean casserole you’ve simply got to try, and I just set out a tray of ferrets, so do help yourself to those, and save room for three-layer Jell-O mold…

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{ 70 comments }

1 Alexandra 07.15.09 at 12:23 am

o.o

I’m coming back for seconds.

2 Looloobelle 07.15.09 at 12:48 am

Mmm succulent bebbeh ferret, I’ll take one with extra foot chub – ah, front right looks perfect

3 BenPanced 07.15.09 at 12:53 am

Baby ferrets to go with the baby carrots!

4 Decca 07.15.09 at 1:02 am

How come my picnics only have ants and no ferrets?

5 free games for kids 07.15.09 at 1:33 am

Ferrets!! They are all from one litter? How many does a ferret give birth to?

And i’m definitely coming for seconds! Super adorable!

6 Iratxe 07.15.09 at 1:41 am

For the comment above mine, ferrets can give birth from 4 to 12 kits, being 8 to 10 the usual.

I just got my two baby ferrets past week. They are JUST adorable

7 Ferretbunny 07.15.09 at 2:07 am

Dat wun on de wite is my checond nephew twiche wemoved.
Dat kid is gonna go pwaces wunce he gwows up an becoms as sucksesful as me.

Avid CuteOverload Weeder,
ur pal,
Ferretbunny de tird.

[Just for the record, FB, we don't really use LOLspeak here. That'd be over at... a different blog. But with that business out of the way, welcome to the Dream Office! Lemme show you around. - Ed.]

8 hon glad 07.15.09 at 2:58 am

They look ferret delicious.

9 DaytimeDeb 07.15.09 at 3:11 am

Please, sir, I want some more?

Food, glorious food!
Hot Ferrets and Mustard
While we’re in the mood some Hedgies and Custard!
Puppies Pudding and Okapis
what next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it boys
IN-DI-GESTION

10 Subhangi 07.15.09 at 4:06 am

BEBEH FERRETS!

*grabby hands*

*GLOMP*

11 Wend 07.15.09 at 4:11 am

Awwww, qte wittew ferrets. (Having stuffed one in mouth immediately, and grabbed another for later)

12 kat 07.15.09 at 4:17 am

there aren’t that many left, but i don’t care – i’m taking two helpings!

13 Rachael 07.15.09 at 4:41 am

We never have any ferrets at my company’s annual picnic.

14 Croatin 07.15.09 at 4:48 am

*shifty eyes*

*stuffs two ferrets in mouth, and three more in pants pockets*

*walks away slowly*

15 Stunbunny 07.15.09 at 4:53 am

But boy do they squeal when you dunk ‘em in the hot cheese dip!

16 GingerBean 07.15.09 at 5:33 am

I want to go to this picnic! THREE types of potato salad?! woooo!

Oh and cute ferrets. ;p

17 Sheepy 07.15.09 at 5:48 am

Cuteness + having Oliver! stuck in my head for the rest of the day = hilarious awesomeness.

18 Jezebel 07.15.09 at 5:50 am

I wonder if they would taste better with ketchup or mustard? Or both? And sauerkraut?

19 cath 07.15.09 at 5:56 am

I think this post should be tagged “gee-ross!” on account of the Jell-O mold.

The ferrets, however, are adorable. *comes back for thirds*

20 Samantha 07.15.09 at 6:08 am

I’m not a fan of adult ferrets, but the stubbular taillios and feetses have killed me ded.

21 Katrina 07.15.09 at 6:08 am

What, no ‘Ambrosia’? No tiiiiny colored marshmallows and red maraschino cherries and whatever the goo is that binds together the other fruit? Awww.
Next time.

22 Camille 07.15.09 at 6:12 am

No, NTMTOM, you were supposed to put the ferrets in the Jello mold! Who ever heard of serving just plain ferrets? And they’re not even peeled!

23 Alch 07.15.09 at 6:12 am

A tisket a tasket
a ferret in a basket. ^_^

24 ding 07.15.09 at 6:21 am

It can be difficult to get your Recommended Daily Allowance of mustelid.

25 T.U.M. 07.15.09 at 6:23 am

Ankle socks!

26 Heather in Tx 07.15.09 at 6:25 am

It’s only a wafer thin ferret.

27 Copperbat 07.15.09 at 6:48 am

Well that’s just fine! While I was waiting in the face-painting line for twenty minutes, I happened to see Croatin and Cath take two ferrets each! At this rate by the time more Chinet plates get set out, they’ll be gone! Ingrates. That’s the last time I put fancy walnuts in my ambrosia salad for you people.

28 Argyle Donkeypants 07.15.09 at 7:03 am

What a fine way to start a Wednesday — by paying attention to a little business.

Now, where’d I put my business socks?

29 Argyle Donkeypants 07.15.09 at 7:04 am
30 Katrina 07.15.09 at 7:06 am

ding- how is that measured, ‘units’, ‘grams’, ‘mgs’, ‘poods’ perhaps? I need to keep my levels up, that’s the first thing to go with Fibromyalgia; the mustelid level. Has the Daily Recommended Minimum even been established yet? Darned FDA.

31 Kelsey 07.15.09 at 7:15 am

Awww! I wish somebody would bring bebeh woozles to our pot lucks! All we ever get is 10 different kinds of chili and pies. Not cute.

Ferts, however, are incredibly cute.

32 Casey 07.15.09 at 7:17 am

Try as I might, I just can’t keep my sock drawer organized.

33 chanpon 07.15.09 at 7:18 am

Alright, who left a tray of dirty socks at my picnic?

34 Theresa 07.15.09 at 7:25 am

WHEEEEEE!!!-sels!!!

35 Theresa 07.15.09 at 7:26 am

PS Can’t we have a picnic more often?

36 michelle 07.15.09 at 7:29 am

what about albino animals? cute or not cute?

look at these albino wallabies i found.. here

37 Momcat 07.15.09 at 7:38 am

Hmmm spread a little mustelid on a bun for me!

38 Kim Evans 07.15.09 at 7:47 am

*NOM* !!!

39 Ala 07.15.09 at 8:19 am

Dooky!!!

40 5^^now8ing 07.15.09 at 8:36 am

Oh, Ed., *thanks* for the link to the Dream Office, and especially to The Future! Can I go live there now? ‘Cause I noticed it’s past April ‘08, and that future isn’t here yet.
[What?? Looks like the future to me... - Ed.]

And hey, don’cha kinda *hafta* talk LOLspeak when yer mouf if full o’ baby ferret? Don’cha?
[I use a combination of semaphore, Morse Code, and whiteboard diagrams - Ed.]

41 Mud Bug 07.15.09 at 9:03 am

Forget mustard & ketchup try a little B.B.Q. sauce !
MMMMMMMMMMMM ! K.C. MASTERPIECE MMMMMMMM!!!!

42 Katrina 07.15.09 at 9:17 am

I love you Argyle Donkeypants. I’ll send that to everyone I know.

I love you Michelle. Please go visit Michelle’s link, and when you come back, give us an “Aawwwwwwwwww”. Theriously “Awwwww.”

Theo- hi.

43 Noelegy 07.15.09 at 9:38 am

Dook-a-licious!

44 Kristen 07.15.09 at 9:43 am

OOoooh! Only 7 servings left! But watch out, too much mustelid may lead to daydreaming and thoughts of extreme cuteness. (meanwhile I roll an extra one in a napkin and stuff it in my purse)

45 pyrit 07.15.09 at 9:56 am

If you go down to CO today
You’re in for a big surprise
If you go down to CO today
You better bring apple pies

‘Cause ferrets are there in a blue lawn chair
Hoping you brought a dish to share
‘Cause today’s the day of CO’s Annual Picnic!

Watch out, the ferrets are really quick
When volleyball games get under way
You can distract them with a celery stick
And put them under the boss’s toupee’.

Beneath the buffet they’ll steal the cheese tray
And hide and seek and sneak away
That’s the way the ferrets are quick, at CO’s Annual Picnic!

46 apotheosis 07.15.09 at 9:56 am

I really shouldn’t, I’m trying to quit.

Maybe just one.

47 Minutiae 07.15.09 at 10:11 am

Save some for me, you guys! I haven’t had ferret kit in AGES!

48 Katrina 07.15.09 at 10:15 am

OH, PYRIT! Niiiiiiiiiice!

Theresa- yes, we should have more picnics, I agree. We will. Peeps- call a picnic when you need one, I’ll come running!

49 Brat 07.15.09 at 10:16 am

Can those feet get any cuter?

50 Katrina 07.15.09 at 10:19 am

DaytimeDeb – you are sooo clever! Niiiiiiice!

51 jocelyn 07.15.09 at 10:44 am

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-sels!

52 Rosecitychild13 07.15.09 at 10:59 am

They look just like baby cats to me!!! Awwwwwww!!!!!! Such cute little folded ears too. And I can’t believe how people say ferrets are bad -_-

53 berthaservant 07.15.09 at 11:44 am

Nice songs Pyrit and Deb!! Two of my favorites.

You know, in my home state, California (I’m a resident for three more days), you can get a prescription from a doctor and go into a store and buy all the marijuana you want (well, up to two ounces at a time).

But ferrets are illegal.

54 Snowpea 07.15.09 at 12:19 pm

I don’t think there are enough ferrety snax for everyone! :grabs one to nom:

55 Katrina 07.15.09 at 12:59 pm

T.U.M., ankle socks-oh, snerkity snerk!

Perhaps these are ferret seeds, they do seem kind of small.

I didn’t know that walnuts can go into Ambrosia- I’m from the Northeast and have to have my ambrosia fix from itinerant, kindly mid-westerners who come by. Do the walnuts get squishy or retain their crunch?

56 Pam 07.15.09 at 1:14 pm

NTMTOM: You’re not right, sir. (But in the bestest possible way!)

57 Theadosia 07.15.09 at 2:24 pm

This really won’t do. Potato salad is fine with old-fashioned braised ferret (you know, with the gloppy, over-salted condensed soup sauce), but for sparkling fresh, raw baby ferret like this you really don’t need anything more than a little ponzu sauce or perhaps a drop of Tabasco. With chilled vodka of course.

58 Oddrey 07.15.09 at 9:46 pm

OMG I wanna ferret so bad!! Stupid California…..makes me wanna drive to Reno and smuggle one in.

59 Katrina 07.16.09 at 4:53 am

I have just learned that there is a Reno ferret connection-sheesh, what you learn on CO these days.

Best of luck with the move, Berthaservant and Bertha.

60 Patito Gigante 07.16.09 at 11:44 am

[crawls into tub, hunches over babies, bites you when you get too close]

61 Theo 07.16.09 at 12:06 pm

Heavens. I do believe we’re being nibbled to death by ducks. ;)

62 Patito Gigante 07.16.09 at 1:30 pm

You need to adjust your monocle while you say that.

63 Theo 07.16.09 at 1:36 pm

Quite, quite. Just so.
[adjust adjust]
[sniff]

64 Leslie (not the author!!) 07.16.09 at 1:40 pm

Theo — back to the whole Dream Office Scenario, if I may –

It DOES contain organizational kitten file cabinets, do it not????

65 Leslie (not the author!!) 07.16.09 at 1:45 pm

(Please read the first line in the famous “Emily Litella” voice. Thank you)

“Never mind”.

(slinks away, having only just now checked the link to look for the “kitty in a drawer” visual, & realizing it was in the CO glossary entry). OOps.

66 Patito Gigante 07.16.09 at 7:20 pm

Peckpeckpeckpeck
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“Say! Are baby ferrets more rambunctious than adult ferrets?”
peckpeckpeckpeckpeck
pecketypeckety
peck

67 GreenEyedHawk 07.16.09 at 7:37 pm

I would like an extra side of small ear-to-head ratio, please.

68 Minutiae 07.17.09 at 2:48 pm

@ Oddrey:

It’s not that hard to do if you’re really serious about it. Erm… not that I have any personal experience at ferret smuggling or anything. Ahem.

69 Kafkacat 07.17.09 at 11:48 pm

For live, squirmy bebeh ferret action, check out FerretCam!!
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/SmallMammals/default.cfm?Cam=BFF

70 FerretMommy 08.09.09 at 5:11 am

Gorgeous they look like my little babies … when they were younger too damn cute I want more but the hubs wont have any of it! lol

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