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Because weirdness needs to be celebrated.
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This seems a rather cold and loveless way to grow up. But then again, if you’re a teenage chameleon not having parents around to enforce curfew has it’s appeal.
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Resemblance of cartoon to actual creature?
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A little bland, but the general outline is there. I give it a 7.
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April is here and so are the weird weekly creatures from my calendar.
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Personally I envy them. If I could cut off this painful damaged knee and grow a new one? I’d happily sharpen my knife and start sawing.
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Comparison of cartoon to actual creature?
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Not bad, though it lacks a certain definition.
I’ll give it a 6.
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As I said, my crazy calendar hasn’t been nearly crazy enough to suit me, but here are a few more tidbits from March.
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I see nothing wrong with this abnormality. Heck… it would saved me quite a few miserable nights when I was a foolish teenager who over indulged on T J Swan wine.
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Comparison of drawing to actual rabbit?
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They nailed the ears, but otherwise it looks like a bloated tick with whiskers.
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This is very true…. and if I could find my backyard video when I literally bumped into a skunk, I’d prove it. They really do look like little gymnasts when they’re pissed.
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Comparison of drawing to actual skunk?
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The tail is too small, the head is too big and we still have the bloated tick issue.
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When I bought this calendar I thought it would be rife with blog fodder, but sadly… it’s not sad enough and I’ve had to wait an entire month for a worthy example.
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So after a long absence, I bring you the fly.
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I’m sure Jeff Goldblum didn’t have this problem.
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Next up is mice.
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Eat twenty times a day and still keep my girlish figure? Where do I sign up..
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If you’ve ever gotten hangry, you’ll appreciate the peculiar talent of the next weird creature on my calendar.
The Yeti crab.
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At any given moment, this fellow has a veritable refrigerator full of yummy snacks at his fingertips.
You can’t argue with that.
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And now let’s check how close the drawing is to the original.
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I’m giving that a 3.
The general idea is there…. but it’s lacking the magnificence of those wonderfully hairy legs.
And aside from the fact it looks like a giant tick, that leg fuzz is begging to be petted.
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Well, I didn’t say petting it was a particularly good idea.
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I bought an interesting desk calendar for the New Year last week.
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It’s filled with bizarre facts about animals you didn’t need to know, but now will.. because I’m going to share all the weirdest.
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Buttered popcorn scented musk glands?
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That qualifies as weird in my book. And since I’d never heard of this creature I wasn’t going to take their drawing as proof…
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But you have to admit..
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They nailed it.
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This month’s calendar squirrel is hard at work.
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And I don’t mind telling you the thought of our resident rodent bitch learning to use tools terrifies me senseless.
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This month’s squirrel has been doing a little gardening.
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And while I never object to landscaping and property beautification, if she’s planting a tree next to our house for easier access…. I’ll be grabbing my ax and aiming for more than the tree.
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This month’s calendar squirrel is a duet.
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And really, for all the aggravation our resident red bitch causes us …. I think a concert with rodent sized baby grand and vocal accompaniment is the least she can do.
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In the continuing saga that is my kitchen calendar ( Bless you my loyal readers, the content here at River’s World is sometimes less than thought provoking ) we have now arrived at April.
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The rodent featured this month seems to be knee deep in a pagan celebration of spring. But seeing that we live in Maine, where May can bring snow …. our resident red bitch from Hell is probably not celebrating in kind.
No, more than likely she’s gathering up dead grasses and leaves in anticipation of building a nest for her future demon offspring in our one of our eaves.
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The battle continues.
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