Comments on: If I Could Google the Animals http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/ Conservatism for punks. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:07:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-11380 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:12:20 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-11380 Hey, thanks. Hey, thanks.

]]> by: BJ Keifer http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-11349 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:35:27 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-11349 AWWW...sorry you lost your original stuffed woodchuck... my husband and I have had a pair of puppet groundhogs since the day we met... and we keep a myspace with our travel photos with them. As we recover pics from our old computers, we will add more AWWW…sorry you lost your original stuffed woodchuck… my husband and I have had a pair of puppet groundhogs since the day we met… and we keep a myspace with our travel photos with them. As we recover pics from our old computers, we will add more

]]> by: Diana http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-2943 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:40:02 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-2943 It's a tigon not a tion. The liger actually looks rather chubby and lazy, not liek the killing machine that nat'l geographic has it pegged as. Genomic imprinting might be why it's so big and I had a big description of how right here until IE crashed. Here's the wiki anyways http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting It’s a tigon not a tion. The liger actually looks rather chubby and lazy, not liek the killing machine that nat’l geographic has it pegged as. Genomic imprinting might be why it’s so big and I had a big description of how right here until IE crashed. Here’s the wiki anyways http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1871 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:28:57 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1871 As noted above, it certainly appears more likely to be a prairie dog -- a creature to whom the term "groundhog" is sometimes overbroadly applied -- than a chipmunk, but it is certainly not a groundhog in the more narrow sense of the term, reserved for Punxsutawney Phil and his burly, almost badger-like relatives, also known as woodchucks -- as in the Jagermeister video above and this informative Canadian video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSOabHiY44 When I was dating future nature center staffer Nancy Gamerman, she gave me a copy of the 1900 book _Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers_ by John Burroughs, which contained this partly insulting yet almost Shakespearean passage in the chapter on "The Woodchuck": "In form and movement the woodchuck is not captivating. His body is heavy and flabby. Indeed, such a flaccid, fluid, pouchy carcass I have never before seen. It has absolutely no muscular tension or rigidity, but is as baggy and shaky as a skin filled with water. The legs of the woodchuck are short and stout, and made for digging rather than running. The latter operation he performs by short leaps, his belly scarcely clearing the ground. For a short distance he can make very good time, but he seldom trusts himself far from his hole, and, when surprised in that predicament, makes little effort to escape, but, grating his teeth, looks danger squarely in the face...Dig one out during hibernation (Audubon did so), and you find it a mere inanimate ball, that suffers itself to be moved and rolled about without showing signs of wakening. But bring it by the fire, and it presently unrolls and opens its eyes, and crawls feebly about, and if left to itself will seek some dark hole or corner, roll itself up again, and resume its former condition." Since Nancy got custody of our stuffed toy woodchuck, Winston, in the breakup, I bought another one just like him on eBay and named him Wilford, but I'm OK now. As noted above, it certainly appears more likely to be a prairie dog — a creature to whom the term “groundhog” is sometimes overbroadly applied — than a chipmunk, but it is certainly not a groundhog in the more narrow sense of the term, reserved for Punxsutawney Phil and his burly, almost badger-like relatives, also known as woodchucks — as in the Jagermeister video above and this informative Canadian video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfSOabHiY44

When I was dating future nature center staffer Nancy Gamerman, she gave me a copy of the 1900 book _Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers_ by John Burroughs, which contained this partly insulting yet almost Shakespearean passage in the chapter on “The Woodchuck”:

“In form and movement the woodchuck is not captivating. His body is heavy and flabby. Indeed, such a flaccid, fluid, pouchy carcass I have never before seen. It has absolutely no muscular tension or rigidity, but is as baggy and shaky as a skin filled with water. The legs of the woodchuck are short and stout, and made for digging rather than running. The latter operation he performs by short leaps, his belly scarcely clearing the ground. For a short distance he can make very good time, but he seldom trusts himself far from his hole, and, when surprised in that predicament, makes little effort to escape, but, grating his teeth, looks danger squarely in the face…Dig one out during hibernation (Audubon did so), and you find it a mere inanimate ball, that suffers itself to be moved and rolled about without showing signs of wakening. But bring it by the fire, and it presently unrolls and opens its eyes, and crawls feebly about, and if left to itself will seek some dark hole or corner, roll itself up again, and resume its former condition.”

Since Nancy got custody of our stuffed toy woodchuck, Winston, in the breakup, I bought another one just like him on eBay and named him Wilford, but I’m OK now.

]]> by: Meredith http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1869 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:06:17 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1869 The "dramatic chipmunk" may actually be a groundhog. The “dramatic chipmunk” may actually be a groundhog.

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1859 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:56:34 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1859 Sorry about that. As compensation, here's a clip of a huge snake vomiting up a hippopotamus (and let me add that if I ever start a techno band -- which would probably please the idiot living in the apartment directly above me -- I will call it Hypnopotamus and its symbol will be a hippo head with a big spinning hypno-disc behind it): http://youtube.com/watch?v=VryQDsx5Ad8&mode=related&search= Sorry about that. As compensation, here’s a clip of a huge snake vomiting up a hippopotamus (and let me add that if I ever start a techno band — which would probably please the idiot living in the apartment directly above me — I will call it Hypnopotamus and its symbol will be a hippo head with a big spinning hypno-disc behind it):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VryQDsx5Ad8&mode=related&search=

]]> by: Red Stapler http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1842 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:01:24 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/19/if-i-could-google-the-animals/#comment-1842 Now now! My "that destroyed my childhood" comment was in reference to The Neverending Story, not a webtoon that appeared during my college years! I'm young, but I ain't THAT young! Now now!

My “that destroyed my childhood” comment was in reference to The Neverending Story, not a webtoon that appeared during my college years!

I’m young, but I ain’t THAT young!

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