A-a-ah y-y-yes, th-th-the ev-ev-ever p-p-popular “vi-vi-vibrating p-p-party h-h-hat” t-t-trick… V-v-very f-f-funny…
Did you bring enough Fig Newtons for everyone, Lesley G.?
Hammy Birthday to You
September 25, 2009 By
Cute Overload :D
I’m sure the hat’s just vibrating in resonance with his nomming…….
Hippo birdie two ewe,hippo birdie two ewe, hippo birdie two ewe, hippo birdie two ewe.
I can’t read the last word on the hat…is it “Snowflake?”
[Yep! -- Mike]
Well, after vibrating mascara, it was just a matter of time.
“I will now throw up on your hand”
No kidding, Theresa! Can’t you just wiggle your hand? Manufacturers are getting desperate to attract new customers. Next: revolving powder puffs.
In re Theresa’s mention of “vibrating mascara”: How the heck is that supposed to work, female CO contingent? (I am a simple man, unused to the ways of you city people.) I saw a magazine ad for this stuff, and I was imagining someone trying to apply an electric toothbrush full of black goopy stuff to their eyelashes.
I once knew and elderly lady who applied her painted-on eyebrows every day, despite a severe Parkinson’s tremor. It was an interesting effect, sort of like seismograph traces in the general area of her forehead. Is this the way vibrating mascara works?
Not being a fan of mascara, Von Zep, I couldn’t tell you….
Was she the makeup lady from “Airplane”?
I don’t know! I am imagining little flecks of mascara flying into your eyes. Does it make your hand feel funny after you use it, like mine feel when I use a leaf blower for a while?
I do like the idea of the seismic eyebrows – sort of punk rock, no?
“Wee sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie!”
OMG the little old man squint combined with the tiny paws gripping the haphazardly-nibbled Fig Newton…
“such a tremor in thy breastie!”
Ya’ll are busting my guts here. NOMTOM this is one of your funniest. And all the peeps are full of funny. Wooooooot!
or should i say “s-s-s-such a t-t-trre-mm-orrrr i-i-n thhhy b-b-breeeas-s-s-tt-ieeeee”
Anyone have another quarter??
I’m eating here! (in Dustin Hoffman’ voice)
Sorry, Gigi! I-I-I g-g-got c-c-carr-rr-ieed a-a-a-wwaay…
adorable.
I love the way people pamper their pets with tiny festive hats.
Because you asked…it’s the best mascara I’ve ever used.
It vibrates so finely (somewhere like 7000 vibrations a minute?) that it mimics the classic act of jiggling your wand back and forth to coat and separate lashes, and the mascara itself is a thicker formula so it doesn’t fly everywhere. Definitely not the power of an electric toothbrush. =D
I wonder if mushie hamster boy is getting a head massage right now. Best birthday present EVER.
I hope that newton is strawberry! Strawberry is the only good kind!!!!
Andrea, thank you for the useful information. Not being a mascara user myself, I could only wonder.
Many years ago, my father attempted to touch up his graying mustache with Mom’s mascara. The result was that he would come to the breakfast table looking like he had rubbed Shinola Shoe Polish onto his upper lip, to the accompaniment of much snickering from his children. My mother (after threatening severe harm to me and my sibs if we hurt Dad’s feelings) persuaded him that the gray ‘stache with the darker hair was very sexy looking, so he went back to his natural color.
If only they had had vibrating mascara for mustaches in those days, Dad might have had a more natural look.
Lurve the leetle cheek powchee!
@Andrea, I am going out tout suite to purchase some!
@VonZep, now I can finally make that legendary distinction between Shinola and erm, something else.
BLONDIE! You win the Song Award – because that was adorable!!!
CO readers are such a font of information! I am of the female persuasion, yet I’d never heard of vibrating mascara (apparently I need to get out more…) until Theresa mentioned it. I too was scratching my head about how it worked. And lo and behold, Andrea has filled me in.
And thanks to Argyle Donkeypants for the translation of the last word on the party hat, as well as to NTMTOM for the confirmation. Snowflake is a great name for such an adorable little hammie!
@Andrea – thanks for the info. But will it help with the problem of not being able to see when you take off your glasses to put the stuff on?? I’m still waiting for a solution to THAT.
hmmm Fig newton for a hamster? That is one big birthday cake!
How cute! Hammy birthday, little Snowflake!
(I bet that treat makes his paws sticky and then he has to be all “ehh” and frantically wash them and its cute.)
p.s. yes I know there’s such a thing as a magnifying mirror, but they should make a mascara with mirror attached. Where can I make this marketing suggestion?
“Gasp!” [clutching chest, in Overly Dramatic stage motion]: “ANOTher Lesley???”
” I think I’ve shifted my nomenclature :0 , just in time ~!!”
(“Darn, my effort @ Emoticon w/ shocked, open mouth, didn’t translate…”)
[Number 8 and capital "O" instead of colon-zero, and you've got it
- Ed.]
@Rooanne: I like where you’re going with this mascara idea! I also can’t see anything when I take off my glasses, so I have a fairly large hand mirror that I hold, along with the mascara tube in my left hand and hold it approximately one inch away from my eyeball and then apply my mascara with my right hand. Having a mirror somehow attached to the mascara would be awesome!
Also, I’d be too afraid to use this vibrating mascara. I’ll stick to my overpriced shimmering effects mascara that supposedly brings out the brown in my eyes, when all it really does it make my eyelashes black…like any other mascara, except when you’re an inch away from my eyeball, you can see about 4 flecks of glitter.
What are we talking about again? A hamster eating a Fig Newton? Oh, okay…
I’m dangerous enough with non-vibrating mascara. Even considering the fact that I see closeup work better without my glasses.
(And I hate electric toothbrushes. They make my skull hurt.)
Snowflake, you got any Raspberry Newtons anywhere?
I’ve never once been invited to a hammie birthday party. Hmmppff.
Well, they probably figured I couldn’t handle the cuteness and I guess they were right. Besides, what do you buy for the hamster who has everything?
I saw on fail blog the other day a billboard for the vibrating mascara: “vibration does what no hand can”
Cute lil hammy, happy birthday snowflake indeed! It is also my dog’s birthday (technically 1/2 birthday, she is 6 months old today).
Ha ha, my Eddy loves it when I place my hand flat on top of his big fat head and wiggle it really fast so his skull vibrates! When I stop he sits still and waits for me to start again. If if I could just get one of these hats in his size, it would save me so much time and work. He could sit around vibrating his head all day long.
Er, um.
re bringing enough for everyone:
“I didn’t know there’d be so many!”
Hammie is SOOOO qte.
I thought at first that he also had on a white Hammie-size onesy. I pictured the teeniest of buttons down the front.
Snowflake is a great name!
(ok, let’s give it, the Ol’ College Try: 8 O )
(Aaaaaand, without the extra space it would be
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I am *locally famous for singing the fig newton song, I’ll have you know.
“One more time!”
*er, regionally. Within earshot!
@ Pyrit:
“The Big — Fig– Newton !!! ” “One more time…..”
(Wow — if I were famous for something, that’s an IMPRESSIVE thing (Grammar Police here) “for which to be Famous”!!)
(Crowd goes wild for Pyrit).
(Sorry guys/ gals: “Big Raspberry/ Strawberry Newton” just
)
DOESN’T fit the rhyme scheme….
The End.
Leslie – Yeah!
Your new name is a lot morely!
skippymom! bwa ha ha ha!
how about vibrating disco ball mascara?
you know, all those tiny mirrors?
[crickets]
@Natalie & others: um, perhaps the discussion belongs in some other forum!
And on the other somewhat related topic – I totally did not remember a fig newton song. Now it is in my head. (Insert various smiley face expressions. I don’t know how to do that. Does : ) work?)
hey… Von Zeppelin, I just remembered: One time my grandmother used lipliner instead of eyebrow pencil (she was kind of not-so-with-it by then.) She also drank the little cup of eye wash my mom left out for her once. We knew because the eye cup had lipstick on it. *sigh*
@ Pyrit ….FWIW: akshuwally, that’s another nickname (“Morely”) that my family uses for me. Can’t iMAgine, why????…… (Blink, blink.)
Hi Resriechan (formerly etc.,etc.,): OK, I’ll bite…why the name change? And, what is the reference? And..hammie is awesomest!
Pyrit, Eddy also loves to be picked up and swung/shaken, up and down, round and round, upside down, etc.
Don’t worry anybody, I don’t shake him hard enough to do any damage to his already damaged before I got him tiny little brain inside his big fat head.
Oh, you Peeps have “magic fingers” today!
Magic fingers! They’re inside the hat! That’s what makes it a vibrating massage hat!
That is one cute little muzzlepowshe.
@ Rooanne… I saw an ad for a pair of magnifying glasses once, specifically for us blind ladies who wear mascara, where each lens flips down on the eye upon which the mascara is being applied, while the other lens supposedly allows clear vision. I think it was one of those K-Tell products or something.
@Rooanne: the only Newtons song I know is from when they introduced flavors other than fig…
{singing}
Yes! We have no banana, we have no banana today.
New apple, strawberry, blueberry,
Of course we have fig. Hooray.
But yes! We have no banana, we have no banana today!
Wish I could find that commercial clip…..
Hi Happycat et al you hepcats!
Name change: due to a multiplicity of Leslies, in the comment stream re. photo w/ piggy in a bucket for a bath … & one of those Leslies…..how shall I word this?…was just a tad….grouchy or displeased w/ CO ‘s Political Correctness (or lack thereof) ….& chose not to clarify herself/ name; so I believe that numerous less-than-playful comments were being attributed to me & my personality/ intent were not being accurately interpreted.
As for this new name, I have some hopes for its being fairly unique …My family lived in Japan at two different times (Dad/ Navy cap’n/ pilot) ….& those who are native Japanese….do not find the standard pronounciation of “Leslie” so simple
( the “L’s” )…..so it came out “Resrie”. And “chan” is the cutesy suffix they use for little kids …….
(AND I thought if I didn’t include “formerly L, NTA” that nifty peeps such as Pyrit, etc., would have no recognition ’twere me).
(Lily Tomlin little kid voice here:) “And thatth the trutthhth.”
Thanks for asking!
And by the way, the birthday hamthter is keeeeyoooott!!!
Peace & sparkling rhinestones, to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, I needed sparkling rhinestones! And thanks for the vibrating mascara recommendation. And thanks for the cute hammie and his name Snowflake. I swear to goodness I’ll have a hammie someday, all due to brainwashing within the walls of C.O.
for those of you who are scritching their haids about the fig newton song go here.
For the one with the flavors go here
The banned versions go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz31zQlgOHg
Why is my comment awaiting moderation. Did I post too many urls?
[Yeah, that's usually it. Published now. - Ed.]
Ah, Resriechan…that makes sense now! I wouldn’t want to have the wrong CO-speak attributed to me, either! Cute name; no wonder I didn’t find it in Google…although Google talked about as it (resriechan) related to music..a bit weird, but hey, we like weird!
I must go eat several figgy newtons now…:-)
Resriechan, I understood why you changed it due to the piggy post but I really like what the nickname means to you and your family. To bad you had to change the name Leslie though. That was my older sister’s name and I love that name. But the new one is completely unique!
I went to Petco today to get some dog shampoo. They had some kittehs up for adoption, and although I can’t add any kittehs to my home because I already have five, I always like to stop by and pet and visit with the adopt-a-kittehs. Their cage was sitting on a cabinet with a fabric curtain hanging in the front. I saw the curtain twitch. I pulled it back, and lo and behold a ginger hammie was looking right back at me! He was an escapee. I notified the staff, who were grateful.
How funny! Hamsters are pretty good at busting out.
hah, this made my day! its my birthday today, or it was when this was posted.
Thanks for the good vibes, everybunny!! Have a fluffy Saturday!
Peace out.
Hammie will nom the candle next, if he doesn’t slow down.
In England we differentiate between Female and Male Leslie/Lesley thusly
Male = Leslie Female = Lesley. You Muricans don’t seem to.
I am glad I don’t have to wear makeup, my maquillage would soon be a manky maquillage. I can imagine rubbing an itchy eye and end up looking like a Panda.
Hon Glad: Do you Brits call a radio a wireless? I read that somewhere.
nom nom nom :]
Queen of Dork- Yes we do but it’s less common these days. I think it may come from the early valve days when you had to get the ???? charged, it’s not a battery but I can’t remember the name of it, thus I assume you didn’t have to plug it in? I still like calling radio four The Home service, as it was in my childhood.
Hon Glad: Oh. I thought it might be something from days gone by. I think I read it in a book when I was little called, The Treasure Hunters. It was about a family of children in England hunting for treasure in an old house. I wish I could find that book.
Queen of Dork:
You can buy a copy of The Treasure Hunters here for a dollar (plus shipping).
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=2&sts=t&tn=the+treasure+hunters&x=0&y=0
aw cute!