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[Boop, reading in bunny voice] "Now, my dears,' said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, 'you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."
"Now run along, and don't get into mischief. I am going out." [Boop turns page]
Thanks, Miranda G. ;)
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Beatrix Potter would plotz from the cute-itude!
BUNNEH!
love how Boop's feet are resting on the pages. she is completely absorbed!
meep!
Oh I SO remember that story. We used to listen to is (and the rest of the Flopsie Bunnie stories) on old vinyl records (they were even bright colours like red, yellow (Jemima Puddleduck!) and orange.
Memories!
Alice the Brit,
Mum to 2 totally CUTE Norwich Terriers, who can be seen at http://twixandtwiz.com
They both aspire to make the cut and be on http://cuteoverload.com one day, then they will know they 'made it'
the bunny was given the book by a frog because the frog had already 'reddit'.
will stop trying to be funny and look at the bunny some more. i am in love.
Alice the Brit,
My Mom used to read the Peter Rabbit stories to me, too. We even had Peter Rabbit cups and bowls (they're in storage now T_T). Hooray!
Awwww! Sweet bunny!
You can't always count on Potter's animals - there's also a book about a "fierce bad rabbit," but I don't think Boop is in that category just yet.
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OMG... bunnies & books... not so much my own cosmic alignment, but Mon Schmoop will kerplooie.
in fact this is so cute it is saving me from pinging rubber bands at the screaming toddler outside my office.
"And this is my long-lost cousin Dave, and that's Uncle Bert..."
Looks like he tried to snorgle some Penzoil!
Is it just me, or does this cute bun look nose-less (maybe an unfortunate run-in with Mrs Macgregor)? Maybe his nose is just pushed in from too much snorgling.
oh. my. goodness.
it's a bunny. reading about bunnies.
*falls over*
Wow, de-lurking and off-topic at the same time to say "Yay, CO for being #1 on Entertainment Weekly's Must List!!"
And also, I would like a bunny.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww!!! That's the shugggiest, sweetiest, huggalovablest bun!
I head 'splode now.
in fact this is so cute it is saving me from pinging rubber bands at the screaming toddler outside my office.
nothing would be cute nough to keep me from doing hat, that is sooooooo annoying [even thoough i don't have an office]
BUNBUN!!! OMG! Thank goodness I'm going to the rehab center tonight, to get my baby bunny fix.
Er, lilli, go ahead and ping the screamer - you have my permission.
i want me a bun bun, but i like my stuffed one, it olny poops stuffing lol! ^_^ ♥ it feels like a real bun bun anyway, and they didn't have to kill one to make it like they do for those keychains in dollar stores
My dad always refers to bunnies as Mr. MacGregors...a bit unclear on the concept, but hard to forget!
"does this cute bun look nose-less"
Well, it's a wee babe (so head shape isn't the same as it would be with a mature bun), and some domesticated bunz do have relatively flat noses - a lot like different breeds of dogs and cats, really.
It's the anerable dwarf-y noselessness of it all!!
If Boop's first name is Betty, she's probably comparing her nails to the model bunbun in the book.
AAAAWWWWWW!
Still waiting for an All Bunn Day.
But this will tide me over until that blessed event - just love the bunnies. My husband and I have a "mantra" we say to each other during times of stress:
Me: "Bunnies are BEST! And you say?"
Him: "Bunnies ARE best!"
Me: "Bunnies"
Him: "Bunnies"
Both: "BUNNIES"
TMI, right?
Also, dwarf bunnies are bred to be 2-4 lbs and have a perpetual baby bun look (short ears, squished face). Unfortunately some people get dwarf bunnies thinking smaller bunnies are better for smaller spaces, but dwarf bunnies are actually kind of hyper. The bigger the bun, the more mellow it is, generally speaking.
Oh, and the pictures in the book are of silver marten bunnies :)
Bunnies are my favorite furry squeeeesheeees :)
OMG major paw/foot fluffage!!!
see the little smudgie-colored fur spot on the top of precious Boop's tiny head??? THAT's EXACTLY where I want to gently reach over and schmuffle-schmooch into his soft baby bunny fur ...... mmmmm........*smooch*!
Maybe I'm just a major wuss, but that rhyme about the bunnies and the McGregors made me sad. :( I'd never heard that rhyme before. 'Tis sad.
What's with nursery rhymes/fairy tales/etc being all mean?
Alice - OMG, we had those records too!! Were yours the ones read by Wendy Craig (Butterflies)? I loved them when I was a kid.
Collison - it's ok, the fierce bad rabbit got his come-uppance, and the good rabbit got his carrot back, so it worked out in the end :)
One question has always plagued me. Mrs. Rabbit has 4 children, one of whom is Flopsy. So she is known as Flopsy Rabbit. Then she marries her cousin Benjamin Bunny, so presumably she becomes Flopsy Bunny (nee Rabbit). But then why are the children known as the Flopsy Bunnies? Wouldn't the whole family just be known as the Bunnies?
Consider this: Benjamin's father is also known as Benjamin Bunny, so presumably Benjamin is known as Bejamin Bunny Jnr. Given that Mrs. Rabbit is widowed, one might presume that her late husband's surname was Rabbit. If Peter and Benjamin Jnr. are cousins, we can surmise that Mrs. Rabbit's maiden name was Bunny. However We know nothing about Benjamin Snr.'s wife - presumably he must have had one, otherwise where did Benjamin Jnr. come from? There can be only one conclusion. Mr. Rabbit and Mrs. Bunny were conducting an affair, and were using Mr. MacGregor's garden as a rendezvous. It was not only Mr. Rabbit who was put in a pie, but Mrs. Bunny too. Which is why Mr. Bunny is in such a bad mood when we meet him. This also begs the question, if Benjamin Jnr. really Benjamin Snr's son, or the illegitimate offspring of Mr. Rabbit? You notice that he beats Benjamin with his switch, but not Peter, Benjamin being the product of his adulterous wife.
If Benjamin is not Mr. Bunny's son, but Mr. Rabbit's, then he married his half-sister (Flopsy), and that's just w-r-o-n-g.
Have I been giving this a little too much thought? Anyone?
Tony: yes.
Benjamin Bunny Senior? Isn't he the old gaffer who kicks the snot out of Mr. MagGregor's cat? "Old Mr. Bunny had no opinion whatsoever about cats", like? He was probably worried about Young Benjamin and Peter, and welcomed the opportunity to work out a little on that cat.
Sorry, almost forgot:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4137735.stm
"The surviving texts provide no easy model for such colloquial phrases as 'Now run along, and don't get into mischief.'" :)
MC - the very same - but what would he be doing in Mr. MacG's garden in the first place, if not to visit the place where his strumpet of a missus rode roughshod over her marriage vows? A way of exorcising her ghost, perhaps?
Tony JA-A-A-AMES.
In with the hyper-detailed conspiracy-theory analysis.
Dude, do you do this with all children's books? Your life must be amazing.
And I LOVE the idea of Peter Rabbit translated into Egyptian hieroglypics. Some people have the BEST jobs.
I worry that Boop is not reading the book, but preparing to eat it. My bunny loves to eat books. I don't know why but she loves anything paper.
Speaking of bunnies in books, I read that, as Estella said, Dwarf Bunnies are hyper, and very tempermental.
I imagine Dogbert with buck teeth and a taste for blood....only cuter.
Thinker - no, only this one, and only because one year I recited the books onto CD for my sister's kids to play in the car, and I got to thinking about the backstory.
A little rabbit reading about rabbits. So cute!
Heeeey cute bunny:O) But I was wondering why there aren't any Chinchilla pics here?? I was surfing the web today and found some really cute Chinchilla pictures sooooo there is no lack there of....heehee
that is a very attractive bunny
To Tony-
Perhaps bunnies use matronyms like Latins or Russians???
I think there needs to be a new rule of cuteness: animals reading books is cute!
Tony James -- I think I'm in love.
Thoughtful, analytical, somewhat absurd and willing to record stories for the nephews and nieces...who could ask for more?
READER RABBIT LIVES!!!
(I use caps because that was just that damn cute.)
Reading up on the biology of rabbits though? What a nerdy bun. :p
can we discuss Meg's rack further? Uh oh.... I'm going to get fired fooling around on this damn cuteness site. Bye for now, CO!!
its ears! omg its ears! slkjf!
Adorababy - good theory, but that would require all of Flopsy and Benjamin's children to be girls, wouldn't it? (girl children are matronymic, boy children are patronymic, or at least they are in Scandinavia). And while it was never fully explored in The Flopsy Bunnies, I think there are children of both genders.
And no, before anyone asks, I'm not going to go into the significance of Thomasina Tittlemouse having enough [ahem]'rabbit wool' to make herself a [hehe]'handsome muff' - that's a story for another forum.
Martha - the beauty of not having children of one's own is that you can spoil other peoples' when it suits you, and then not worry about clearing up the mess. My goal is to be the crazy bad uncle who will give his nephews airguns and slingshots when they're old enough, quite against the wishes of their parents. My sister still hasn't forgiven me for giving them plastic whistles for their xmas stockings (4am xmas morning - well, I wasn't staying with them, so it wasn't me they woke up when then started making noise - hehehehe).
Amen, Tony J. Other peoples' children are certainly adorable, but I always preferred four-footed and furry for constant company. haven't found a guy yet to match that profile...
maybe they're not scandanavian bunnies? maybe bunnies ALWAYS use the matronym because they aren't always sure who the daddy bunny is cause they f* like bunnies?
Wow. I never realized how disturbing those stories were when I was little.
Adorable bunny :)
'the crazy bad uncle'? I'm thinking more of the uncle Lord Peter Whimsey became. Nothing bad there, at all.
I'll be seing my neices this summer, and I have to start collecting all sorts of insignificant-cies for them NOW.