Teeny tiny torte
Teeny Tiny Tortie McTortlesons here is an Egyptian Tortoise born at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. He's one of the tiniest, most endageredest tortoises in the world! He also has NINE siblings. Imagine THAT dinner table.
Pass the mashed potatoes, Adam G.!
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Whoa, I just realized that's a *dime*.
omg...imagine having a whole pocketful of those!! sooo TEEEENY
Awww, that definitely beats the plastic desk turtles! Pass the tortoise, please!
awwww these little guys need to get going and breed because I MUST have one!
omigosh, baby turtles are like my favorite thing in the world! ARg!! Whats best is when you pick them up (gently) and then they wag their arms and legs back and forth and look at you fiercely!
Ohhh... sooo sweet and tiny... I wouldn't dare put this sweety at my table, it would get mistaken for a brussel sprout! TINY TORTY!!! Sooooo cute!
Freaking OUTRAGEOUS. I almost choked on my Diet Coke with Lime when the pic loaded. But I would have died happy.
tortielini.
How can something that small even be alive?!??!?!?!?! Cute cutie turtle wee-ness!
what just happened... i typed in cuteoverload, next thing i know, i'm on the ground regaining consciousness...
Very cute - the wee head is barely popping out.
Brings new meaning to the phrase "drop a dime".
I'm in love!
heh-heh...
you guys r silly...
&;o)
hehehe and apparently there is more than one Alice today. For a moment there, I was like - wait, am I suffering from amnesia? - to the "omigosh" comment!
FROM TEH VAULT: More ickle turkles...
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/02/whatever_you_sa.html
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/02/dude_im_audi.html
...plus the plastic fantastics that Thinker mentioned:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/03/tiny_crawly_des.html
For being so teeny tiny, he ALREADY has *BEAUTIFUL* markings and etchings and shadings in his wee little shell...look at 'dat...&:o)
Egyptian?
Wee beyond belief?
This must be the Toy King, the Tut Tortoise!
That...
But...
Woah...
*squeak*
...
It's sad they're endangered. They wouldn't be, if other animals would watch where they're stepping.
do baby turtles grow bigger? *faints*
"tortielini" ha
Wow, that is one GIGANTIC dime. Where'd they find a dime that big?
I'm imagining the dinner table for these lil' guys.
It's probably the size of a quarter...
oh they are soo cute :)
soooooo kyewt and dinky!
If he has nine siblings, that makes them the Ten Tiny Turtles of the Sesame Street song, who were, in fact, ordering dinner:
"Ten tiny turtles on the telephone
Talking to the grocery man...
...We'd also like ten mangoes
They're the favorite of our sister Gert
And one last thing
Please do include ten apples for dessert!"
I love that the "oh they are soo cute :)" comment up there belongs to someone using a screen-name of "bitch". Awwwwww.
Luvs,
-- Total F♥♥♥ing S.☻.B.
Theo!
How do you make the HEART ?????
&:o?
Stop it, CuteOverload, just stop it. You already have me wanting a hedgehog and a bunny, and I'm damn close to wanting my very own milk-splattered kitty. And now I simply *must* have a teeny tiny dime-sized turtle.
What are you trying to do to me, anyway?
You know that turtle's thinking ..."whoa--free dime!" then he's gonna try to make off with it, real slow like, and blow it all on penny whistles and moon pies ...
I want him!!!
L, you made me laugh.
Doesn't that turtle look like a crunchy snack to anybody else? You could take a bag of those to the movies and eat 'em like popcorn. In BBQ and original Turtle flavor.
I'm trying to wrap my brain around this... a dime-sized turtle??!! My mind has finally boggled for good.
Kin I hold him? Puleeze?
Delicious. Add some more salt and pepper, and a bit more of onions and its good to go. DIINNERR!!! Just kidding.
Oh my lord is that an adorable little tortie!! Wow, I had no idea anything that tiny could live. Totally melted me when I saw it. LOL
I saw him in person!! I went to the Eye-to-Eye behind the scenes tour at Woodland Park and met Mr. TTT in the shell. He's even cuter in person, if that's possible.
so. SMALL!
YGRS --
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They must have a dinning table the size of a Triscuit.
this is the smallest cutest turtle I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
Did McTortlesons make anyone think about the Torklesons?
Or were we all captivated by the image of ten tiny tubular turtletts tippling around a tiny table?
I'm a dime, I'm fine and I shine, I'm freshly minted. I'm silver plated, I'm underrated, you won't even pick me up 'cause I'm not enough - for a local phone call....
sorry, random Cake moment there. I want that little guy to walk around all day singing that song.
excuse me, but I'm here to gum the tortie.... I lost my teeth at the last photo...
mushsmorgle!
OMG, sooooooooo tiny! So incredibly adorable
I'd like to place him at the end of my dog's snout. Although then he just might become a snack.
ah! My first pet was turtle! I love tortes!
Holy Rule 14, Batman!
I totally ♥ teeny tortugas!
Anna Idle -- Those ten tiny table turkles are *tewtelly* teetotallers. Time for tea and toast!
*stares at turtle*
*stares at dime*
*stares at turtle again*
I'd be afraid to pick him up. He's so wee!
so it's a murder of crows, a pride of lions, a school of fish, and a "dollar" of mini-turtles?
Since they're mini, maybe a "tenth" of turtles, a "coinage" of turtles, a "change" or turtles...you know, with the dime and all.
Though I think officially it's a "bale" or a "herd" of turtles.
A bale of turtles!
love it.