Lion Lullaby

February 1, 2012 By 138 Comments

Hush little baby, don’t lose hope
Mama’s gonna catch you an antelope

And if your tummy rumbles more
Mama’s gonna run down a wild boar

And if that boar’s too boring for you
Mama’s gonna net you a nummy gnu

And if that gnu just runs and laughs
Mama’s gonna hunt down a herd of giraffes

And if those giraffe should scamper east
Mama’s gonna bag you a wildebeest

And if that wildebeest’s too wary
Mama’s gonna slaughter a whole safari

And if that safari bails (how rude!)
Mama’s gonna send out for Chinese food


And if there’s a photo that makes your day
It prolly came from Flickr user Brian McKay

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Vintage ResQte

February 1, 2012 By 61 Comments

From the Smithsonian Institution comes this very old photo, along with a heartwarming story of a dog who rode the rails:

Owney was a stray dog who wandered into the Albany, New York, post office in 1888. The clerks let him stay the night, and he fell asleep on a pile of empty mailbags. Owney was attracted to the texture or scent of the mailbags and began to follow them, first onto mail wagons and then onto mail trains. Owney began to ride with the bags on Railway Post Office (RPO) train cars across the state, and then the country. The RPO clerks adopted Owney as their unofficial mascot, marking his travels by placing medals and tags from his stops on his collar


Via Flickr Commons, collections of the world’s photo archives.

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Some Things Are Best Left to the Pros

January 31, 2012 By 61 Comments

Eager to squeeze in on the “wacky cats in tiny boxes” craze, sad-eyed Buddy the bulldog bites off much less than he can chew. Nice try, Buddy.

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Don’t Tell Me How it Ends!

January 31, 2012 By 59 Comments

Will the ungainly but lovable Great Dane win the love of the beautiful Collie, or will she fall under the spell of the intriguing but dangerous Rottweiler? And what of the cat; he seems loyal to the team, but can he be trusted? I can’t stand the suspense!

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All Bets Are Off

January 30, 2012 By 47 Comments

Check it out, the new kitten’s sneaking up on the dog again.

Oh, this’ll be good. Bet you fifty walnuts he gets thrashed this time.

You’re on. C’mon, kitty! Go for the tail, go for the tail!

Hey, Fido! Show that pipsqueak what your teeth are made for!


Whoa, I totally did not see that coming.

The dog just jumps up, with the kitty still latched onto its tail…

… and then — crunch! — right into the coffee table!

Well, I guess it’s a draw, then.


Once again we see the corrupting influence of wagering in sports, Milosmom.

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I Just Can’t Decide!

January 30, 2012 By 42 Comments

Maybe I should just nibble a bit off one end? No, that would ruin the symmetry…

Well, OK, how about equal nibbling on both ends? Um…

Oh, what the heck! Go for the gusto and bite it right down the middle!


Dianne says: “Although he loved his present, Gus Gus had no idea where to start!”

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Wow, You’ve Got a Big Mouth!

January 28, 2012 By 75 Comments

Yeah, people keep coming up to me and telling me that. “You got a big mouth,” they says, and then I says “Yeah, I know, it’s just how I am,” that’s what I says to ‘em.

Like the time I run into Donna from the block, coming out of Charlie’s apartment at six in the morning, which struck me kinda funny, seeing how she’s engaged to Ralph the butcher for six months now. Anyway, she says to me “You got a big mouth, you know that?” And I says “Yeah, I get that all the time.”

And just last week, Big Vinnie come up to me, he’s the guy with the gold chains and the pompadour, even though it’s really a toupee and the chains spend more time in the pawn shop than ’round his neck on account of his gambling problem, anyway he says to me “Hey, you got a big mouth,” and I says “I know, I was just born with it.”


“My mom found this little guy on a field trip. He’s definitely happy about something,” says Elizabeth M.

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We’ve SOLD OUT!

January 27, 2012 By 18 Comments

Thanks to everyone who bought a Cute Overload 2012 Page-a-Day Calendar, we’ve sold out our stock at Amazon.com (but they can still sell you one from a third party)!


Looking for ideas for those torn-out pages? Get stylish like Carolyn G., who says “I have been taping up all the calendar pages on my wall. Here’s what it looks like so far. Sometimes I get so excited about putting up the next one that I tear it off before the day is even over.”

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So, Tell Me About Yourself…

January 27, 2012 By 53 Comments

Really? You don’t say? Well, I’ll be, isn’t that interesting! How many penguins, did you say? Goodness, that’s a lot! And on a unicycle, no less! Mercy! But isn’t that illegal? Ah, I see… so is there a lot of money in that sort of thing? Gracious, I had no idea!


Image courtesy of our favorite partner National Geographic. Photo from The Great American Zoo Trip, in which photographer Joel Sartore and his 18-year-old son take portraits of as many endangered animals as possible.

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Know Your Exotic Plant Species!

January 26, 2012 By 38 Comments

The Pigtunia (porcius redonkulii) is a flowering plant commonly found near farmland. It can be recognized by its distinctive red flower, which releases a piglet in early spring.


Another quality link cultivated by Ant!

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