And the winner is….

by Meg on November 3, 2009

NOM-VEMBER!*

OK, it was frakking close, we can celebrate both.

This is the Overload afterall. BRING IT ON!

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Thanks for finally making a call, Sarah L. (who’s never met a Vervet monkeh she didn’t like) *As of press time, ‘Nom-vember was barely squeaking by at 49%, People!

{ 79 comments… read them below or add one }

1 MadameX 11.03.09 at 5:37 am

*Adjusts lorgnette – borrowed from Theresa*

Harrumph! Well I never…

You may call it what you may; the eleventh cicle of Teh Qte, counted from the Winter Solstice, shall forever be Nose-vember in MY book!

2 JohnnyJohnny 11.03.09 at 5:39 am

Me too!

3 gooeyctr 11.03.09 at 5:40 am

Nom*vember — delicious!

Shall it be followed by Squee!-cember ?

4 DogEared 11.03.09 at 5:40 am

Nose-vember Rules!

*steps down from box*

5 georgina0912 11.03.09 at 5:43 am

Wow…i have never been nomed like that. Jealous!!!

6 Amy 11.03.09 at 5:53 am

I’ll accept Nom-vember so long as we can get random closeups of the noses of said nomming animals.

7 Saffron 11.03.09 at 6:24 am

Oh sure, that is the popular vote, but what about the delegate count? Who is winning..the nom states or the nose states?

I second the motion from the floor from delegate gooeyctr for Squee-cember!

8 Jezebel 11.03.09 at 6:27 am

Oh, the monkey baby loves hims Momma!

9 Transpogue 11.03.09 at 6:33 am

….or we could have BEEPcember, which will cover the moist nosicles. :)

(or am I just really reaching here?)

10 Emerson 11.03.09 at 6:36 am

I don’t know how I feel about a monkey sucking on an ear. Nuff-vember!

11 Blondie 11.03.09 at 6:39 am

Transpogue – You’re not reaching. Being in the Beepers United 12 step program, I would be in favor of your suggestion.

I’m also a big nommer tho. So I am content having our 11th month being known as Nom-vember.

Love the baby monkey nomming! Nom nom nom nom nom nom….

12 mariser 11.03.09 at 6:42 am

NOMvember!
booyah!
teh people of Cuteland* have spoken
[throws internet confetti around. yeah, of course it is real. yea, you can't see it. because it is made out of shredded bytes. they are very teeny, that's why you can't see them. because I say so, that's why. go to your room!]

*yes, it’s a real country. don’t they teach y’all geocutephy in your schools?

13 snorgler 11.03.09 at 6:45 am

Resigned sigh at having people in most of the nom pics…

Sandra S came up with the brilliant “Decembaroo” on the other thread. I say we gotta have it!

14 chanpon 11.03.09 at 6:48 am

Is that last picture the ultimate picture of content or what?

15 J. 11.03.09 at 6:55 am

Damn, girl, when you gonna get that monkey off your back?

16 Kristabelle 11.03.09 at 6:56 am

I’m all for Nose-vember, but what I REALLY want is for a little monkey to hug me like that!!!!!

17 Rachael 11.03.09 at 6:58 am

I don’t care what we call it. All I know is that I want a minkee to nom my ears down to nubs, then embrace my head with an expression of pure bliss. That bebeh is so stinkin’ adorable, I’m almost in tears. This, my friends, is how we know there is a higher being. *love*

18 Blondie 11.03.09 at 6:58 am

@chanpon – between happy baby monkey in pic 3 above, or little sloth man in the previous post… Put the two together and it blows the I’m Content factor off the scale.

19 mariser 11.03.09 at 7:01 am

@ snorgler – I bet the majority of the pictures will have animals nomming on each other. I admit, there will be the occasional human, but sometimes the human will be the nommer, other, as in the case above, human will be the nom.

[sits back, waits for the human-with-entire-head-inside-lion's-gaping-maw-pic]
meself, I’ll be happy to provide pics of my trying to stuff an entire kitteh on my mouth. is not that hard realmghtgrmrrhhg…

[I'd say that depends largely on the kitteh, wouldn't you? - Ed.]
[...damn, I can't find a :GAPINGMAW: smiley. :( - Ed.]

20 Ann W. 11.03.09 at 7:08 am

YES!!!! Nomvember totally rules!! WOOO!

gooeyctr- I totally agree it should be followed by Squee-cember! *EEEEE!*

21 Juno 11.03.09 at 7:21 am

Now I’m sad. I hate to see traditions messed with.

But I will say: Decembaroo is BRILLIANT!!

22 Aquamarine 11.03.09 at 7:31 am

aw, i want teh monk!!!! want it! want it!

i used to have a kitteh who would nom my ear like that…..taken away from his mama too soon, i suppose….he was a foundling. but he never got tired of nomming my earlobe or my pinkie or a wad of my t-shirt….oh, and the slobber…..that part wasn’t so great.

23 AuntieMame 11.03.09 at 7:40 am

Hmph. It’s not like there weren’t ten other months to stick a nom into… :(

24 AuntieMame 11.03.09 at 7:40 am

LIke JaNOMuary.

25 Holly 11.03.09 at 7:57 am

Am super curious what the story is behind these pics!

26 Trabb's Boy 11.03.09 at 7:57 am

Oh that is so damned sweet!!! I wanna monkey contentedly nomming on my ear. All I get is my six-year-old son climbing all over me while I try to type. “Why do you always look at the comments?” ** knee in the ribs ** “Can we look at Cheezburger now?” ** elbow in the back of the head ** “No, I wanna see Youtube Poop!”

Annoying little monkey.

27 LisaL 11.03.09 at 8:01 am

YAY both!!!
How adorable are those photos though. That lil monkey looks so content with the sun warming it’s back and a nice soft earlobe to nomnomnom on.

28 Brenda 11.03.09 at 8:12 am

That little guys expression in the last photo is priceless! He is SO happy! :-)

29 Stormy Dragon 11.03.09 at 8:13 am

Noses demand a recount!

Nomvember is not my month!

30 Saffron 11.03.09 at 8:19 am

@Stormy Dragon I also demand a recount!
I sent my staffers out to do some ‘research’ on nomvember. Here is what we found:
1. His mother is a hammie and his father smelt of elderberries
2. Apparantly while canoeing he was attacked by a disapproving rabbit
3. Swiftboat Nosicles for Justice reports that Nomvember actually DID NOT NOM all he reported to nom.

RECOUNT! RECOUNT!

31 Ellen W. 11.03.09 at 8:22 am

I, for one, voted Other:Both! So I’m happy!

And I love the teeny minkee!
(anybody else remember Tiny Tunes’ Elvira and the Sea Minkees?)

32 cath 11.03.09 at 8:38 am

The Decembaroo bandwagon has driven down my street and I am on that bad boy!

33 Sarah 11.03.09 at 8:42 am

I can just hear that little cutie now…
I lurve you! I lurve you soooooo much!

34 Angela 11.03.09 at 8:49 am

That girl is wearing different designer sunglasses in each pic.

35 T.U.M. 11.03.09 at 9:10 am

I went past a cookie shop the other day – there was a big sign in the window that just said, “OM NOM NOM.”

36 Aquamarine 11.03.09 at 9:14 am

@TUM: this reminds me that the Cookie Monster has been replaced by the Veggie Monster!! i’m sure everyone else is already aware of this. but how wrong is that!!!! i am sooooooo super offended by this usurpment (wd?) i am beside myself!

see, here i am over here!

IT IS SICK AND WRONG!!!!

37 KittyMarthaPoo 11.03.09 at 9:31 am

mmm….your ear is delicious…and I luff you <3

38 Theresa 11.03.09 at 9:45 am

This all reminds me that not only am I forbidden to sing “Broccoliiiiiiiiii Broccolaaaaaaaaa!” by my nephew (now 6), but I was also severely censured for saying “OM NOM NOM” as I ate my bagel and veggie cream cheese. Little censor. :P

["Censor" != "Censure", silly ;) - Ed.]

39 bunny 11.03.09 at 9:59 am

I wanted nosicles!….snifs…

40 bunny 11.03.09 at 10:00 am

LET THERE BE NOSICLES!!!!

X3

41 doggabone 11.03.09 at 10:14 am

@Ed: One of the definitions of “censor”, according to http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=censor : someone who censures or condemns.

*whistles idly*

42 bean 11.03.09 at 10:20 am

this is the best post i have seen on cuteoverload thus far!

43 victoreia 11.03.09 at 10:27 am

Ah, nom nom nom……

But I wanna count anyway! Nosevember!

[singing] “Tradition!”

44 victoreia 11.03.09 at 10:28 am

Dang, that should say “… I wanna recount anyway!”

45 Snowpea 11.03.09 at 10:32 am

Awwwww, such a contented little fellow!

46 Rooanne 11.03.09 at 10:37 am

hey, what kinda system is that? I tried to vote again — for NOSEvemeber — but it wouldn’t let me!

47 Blondie 11.03.09 at 10:39 am

@Aquamarine #36. I remember when that happened. My niece came over singing the new song and I flipped out. WHAT ARE THEY DOING? I went out and bought a DVD with a handful of old episodes that included the correct C is for Cookie song, and impressed upon my sister that no niece of mine was going to equate Cookie Monster with vegetables. If Sesame Street wants to be politically correct, then make up a new character. But don’t mess with the classics!

48 Resriechan 11.03.09 at 10:40 am

(Ok: YET ANOTHER controversial bit from moi:
I REALLY DON’T CARE about nom & noses (altho on a kneejerk moment, I’d hafta lean toward bein’ fond of Cute Noses) But I”m glad Meg et al put “things like this” up for voice uv Da Peeps & am glad that Da Peeps got to enjoy their Say-so..
That opinion, established. ..Mooooooooooving right along:

J & doggabone get my BWA HA HA on this multilogue…

But I also agree with the several who have pointed out the facial expreshe of *JOY* in the liddle Minkey in the thoid picktyah.

Amen.

49 Rooanne 11.03.09 at 10:40 am

Um, they are cute pictures, and Meg did say we can celebrate both….. so I guess my “can’t decide” vote was right on!

50 Rooanne 11.03.09 at 10:42 am

For next month, what about Decembrrrrrrrrrr – and we can have polar bears and kittehs and puppehs with knitted scarves and so on?

51 Theresa 11.03.09 at 10:43 am

Theo, I believe the little bugger both censured AND censored me. Hmph.

[I sense you're incensed... - Ed.]

52 Katrina 11.03.09 at 10:49 am

But, but, but……oh, well there goes the neighborhood.
I believe that the nouveaux CO, who didn’t type their fingies to the bone and rack their frying brains to ruin to making this such the great website that it is, have spoken. I pass the torch to a new generation.

Knock Knock-
Who’s there?
Nosevember.

53 miaminomom 11.03.09 at 10:49 am

wat en cutie

54 Aquamarine 11.03.09 at 10:52 am

@blondie: i heah ya, sista!

i mean, wasn’t the whole point of CM that he was ACKNOWLEDGING children’s unhealthy desire to nomnomnomnom on cookies 24/7?? sort of along the lines of “where the wild things are” (one of my all time favs)? like, “we hear ya, kids, cookies are awesome, wouldn’t it be great if we could eat nothing but??” CM wasn’t about advocating healthy eating! he was about carpe diem! he was about feed the id! he was about joie de vivre! i mean, am i wrong?????!!!

(sits down, breathless)

55 Nikki 11.03.09 at 10:59 am

Well, I suppose that when Nosevember gets up to make his concession speech on this election day, he’ll say something cute like, “Well, it was an honor just to be Nom-inated…” (insert eye-rolling emoticon here…)

56 Rachael 11.03.09 at 11:06 am

Cookie Monster has been replaced by Veggie Monster? For reals????? This is not the America I grew up in. :shock:

[Well, it's not, but Cookie is still Cookie. No worries on that score. - Ed.]

57 edmundh 11.03.09 at 11:28 am

Earlobe pacifier!

58 AuntieMame 11.03.09 at 11:31 am

Cookie Monster is still Cookie Monster, folks! He’s just incorporating more healthful foods into his diet, in addition to cookies!

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/veggie.asp

59 Kristabelle 11.03.09 at 11:59 am

Thank you victoreia – you didn’t happen to see the end of Topol’s farewell tour last week, did you?

60 LovesDogs 11.03.09 at 12:20 pm

I’m soooo jealous….. I want a vervet to suckle my earlobe and snorgle my head!

61 hyura 11.03.09 at 12:38 pm

i used to let rafter (my bengal kitty) suckle my earlobe, until the earlobe got all…soggy.

62 NoAstronomer 11.03.09 at 12:57 pm

So I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I’m sure
There’s no need to complicate, our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours

D-d-do do you, but do you, d-d-do
But do you want to come on
Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear

63 Aquamarine 11.03.09 at 1:27 pm

@auntie mame:

THANK YOU!!! i am glad that this was just one more example of my die-hard gullibility.

you have saved us all from a panicky dive off the cliffs with the rest of the lemmings.*

*i know they don’t really do that :-0

64 Ingrid 11.03.09 at 2:51 pm

Hmppf. Nom-vember is stupid. *kicks dirt*

65 merri 11.03.09 at 2:51 pm

ick-ick-ick-ick-ick. did I mention…ick!

66 Paunchie 11.03.09 at 3:39 pm

re Cookie monster v. Veggie monster

that reminds me of my little nieceling the other day telling me how one neighborhood lady was giving V-8 juice out for Halloween! Gack! I wonder if her house got egged.

And I thought apples and raisins were lame for Halloween!

67 Jen8 11.03.09 at 4:31 pm

OK Peeps, here is my calendar:

Hamuary
Ferretuary
Mooo-arch
Ape-ril
May
Swoon
Juleye
Awwwwwwgust
Squeeeptember
Tocktober
Nosevember or Oh Noes-vember I keep trying..
Keesember

May and June were hard!

68 Jen8 11.03.09 at 4:34 pm

Oh brother the html demon took over. I used brackets instead of parenthesis. Corrections follow:
May (I put my cat in your rack?)
and
Juleye (capsules)

69 kat 11.03.09 at 4:58 pm

NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Por Que?????!!?!! POR QUEEEEEE??!!!!?!!!!?!?!? *falling to knees, shaking fists in the air*

70 Happycat 11.03.09 at 5:57 pm

Decembarooooooooo FTW!

71 Blondie 11.03.09 at 7:33 pm

Bunday
Nomday
Twosday
Dognesday
Birdsday
Ferretsday
Caturday

72 sallyfish 11.03.09 at 8:36 pm

Harpa the Happy Icelandic suggests that you imagine Teh Qte Mnke nomming on her nose for a Nomnosevibber. Dreamink of those velvety lips on her schnoze, she hopes for a union of the two. Nomnosevibber!

73 Katrina 11.04.09 at 9:08 am

Nomvember, indeed. HOO-Ha. Woopy.

Hey, Jen8, I’ll take Oh, NO-sevember in a heartbeat!

74 spb 11.04.09 at 8:58 pm

Ok, there we have it… we’ll take Jen8’s 12 months (May & June TBD) and Blondie’s days of the week. What more do we need?? I say “nada”.

75 spb 11.04.09 at 9:00 pm

p.s. “Nosevember” for the win. End of story.

p.p.s. “Oh Noes-vember” in leap years. Ok, now… end of story.

76 Paisley 11.05.09 at 5:39 am

’s adorable. But.
You just know that thing is crawling with fleas.

77 bosskitteh 11.05.09 at 9:46 am

I think we know Meg is a Battlestar Galactica Fan :-)
(I am too!!!!)

78 panda 11.05.09 at 6:59 pm

those pictures are SO sweet

79 Jennifer 11.15.09 at 6:26 am

I detect a penchant for wearers of designer sunglasses

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