Comments on: Look! A Bear-Raccoon-Puppeh!

By: ann

ann — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:35:57 +0000

the reason it looks so much like a raccoon and is called a red panda is because it is a very close relative to both pandas and raccoons. its weird but pandas arent a part of the bear family, theyre part of the raccoon family.

By: Rose

Rose — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:54:12 +0000

Squeeeee!! Nothing could make my Monday morning better than seeing my pics on CO, with Meg’s clever commentary! Thanks for sharing them, Meg.

By: Tami

Tami — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:45:54 +0000

I have these EXACT pandas on my cell phone wallpaper! We went to the Syracuse zoo only a few weeks ago! Too cute!

By: 5^^now8ing

5^^now8ing — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:33:13 +0000

Yes, yes, I remember the Simpsons on the Tracey Ullman Show and liked them (esp. the constant pacifier-sucking of baby Maggie), but didn’t like the actual show for many years. Only after it started appearing in ubiquitous reruns watched by dinner-fixing hubby (*do* love a man who cooks!) did I begin to gain an appreciation for la famille Simpsonne, and now I’m a convert. (You can see the grey hairs from there, can’t you?) (BTW, who *else* prefers “grey” to “gray?”)

Ah, yes, I was forgetting that CO (like eBay) is on Pacific time. We in the flyover states are so used to seeing everything in Eastern time that I was making a false assumption. I do *loooove* the internationality of the Intarwebs & the fact that “the sun never sets….”

Affectionately…

By: Leslie (NOT the author!)

Leslie (NOT the author!) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:09:42 +0000

ps…6:59 am… & I’m actually on the East Coast, so that was in something like
the 9 am hour ovah’ hyeeyah!!
— Jus sayin’

By: Leslie (NOT the author!)

Leslie (NOT the author!) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:07:47 +0000

@5^^(etc)…
with one significant quirk tho’
don’t much see M. Simpson hitchhikin’ ennywhere (esp w/ clever repartee on Cute Things) on the komputerr, do we??
Or maybe she’s become more computer literate, than she used to be back when…
(grey hairs growing immediately & ea one making a “bing” noise as it extrudes my scalp)

the Simpsons on TV originated on the …(wait for it!! ) Tracey Ullman Show on Fox?????

By: pyrit

pyrit — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:59 +0000

So, you tie the room together?

By: 5^^now8ing

5^^now8ing — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:06:51 +0000

OH! If by “groovy” you meant “nerdy,” our house *would* qualify! Tho we don’t get up as early on a Saturday as Katrina & Leslie do — 6 am on a Saturday? — yeesh! Or are y’all in the UK??
Fam. also includes physics major son away at school, *two* St. John’s graduates (great books! great books!), and dad of whom one dare not ask a question about the Ottoman Empire, lest you get delayed for an hour or two. They all eat Monty Python for breakfast. They carry on entire conversations in MP/Simpsons/Big Lebowski references. Too bad there’s no real market for clever repartee, or we’d be *so* rich! (I basically just fulfill the audience role in the family — the Marge Simpson, if you will.)

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:02:38 +0000

GO SYRACUSE! The red pandas are my favorite part of our zoo here, they are too cute for words! (Babies have been born recently too!!!)

By: Leslie (NOT the author!)

Leslie (NOT the author!) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:55:14 +0000

I can provide an appr. Holy Grail ref . tho’:

“Help, help, I’m being repressed” — Dirt Clod