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For they won't go until they get some, and you just know they're going to sit there caroling all night until your ears fal-al-al-al-al-all right off. (Extortion, that's what it is, pure and simple ...)
Originally submitted by the fabulous Nancy! Yea, Nancy!
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Agh! Are those ears plastic?!? Interesting...
Fake ears!
It's a batch of BEFs.
They're kind of cute at this age. Especially if you don't see the tail.
This is the first time since the jubilant, dancing mantis post that I jumped back from my computer as this page loaded.
*tosses figgy pudding out the door and hides*
Thanks, Not That Mike. This post just solved all of my holiday gift giving problems. I am now sending all of my relatives, business associates, and distant acquaintances a crate of singing possums wearing plastic ears. You can find them in the Harry and David catalog, on the same page as the fruit baskets.
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This group look like my friends from high school and I. Seriously. I can hear the loud bickering in my head.
OMG! 8 hissing possums! I have one or two of these cutie pies on my front porch at night, but this many?
What is the story behind this one I wonder?
I made a video of the baby possums and outside kitty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWJr_T18bI
You WILL be assimilated !
Resistance is FUTILE !
The Collective.
Cute in a weird way. They remind me of that movie Beetlejuice, when that lady pulls her face forward into a long snout.
Clank whirr grind, pudding pult fully loaded. "Come and get it"
*shriek*
We have Cute or Sad? and now I think it's time for a new category: Cute or Scary?
These lil' guys are cute but I can't look at them too long because they're starting to freak me out.
They're cute, but something about them makes the base of my spine tingle.
I wish I could hear the racket they must be making.
I have the irresistible urge to yoink their plastic ears ever so gently...thanks for the idea Von Zeppelin...
*thumbing through Harry and David catalog*
OMG! I wish I had 8 caroling Oppossums on my porch!! I'd scoop them all up in a giant snorgle pile then bring them all inside for nice cups of hot cocoa with as many marshmallows as they wanted.
Wait...do I hear singing!?
*jumps up and runs to door*
First of all, the words "figgy pudding" just INSTANTLY make me giggle. Could've been a tank full of baby octopi and I still would have squeed!
But yeah, after looking at it a while, I'm wondering if maybe this isn't more of a Halloween picture.
Or, perhaps, a rejected Muppet Christmas with John Denver number!
I second the "Cute or Scary" section.
They look exactly like my church choir singing Christmas carols, 'cept for the plastic ears, mebbeh.
They ARE extreeeemely cute in a savage kind of way and this puts the possum-cute-or-not case to rest once and for all, IMHO.
Scary! Our possums here in Aus are a bit cuter, but they have this horrible scream. *shudders and throws figgy pudding out the window*
"I call the big one Bitey." Sound familiar? ;)
aaah!! frightening!
Are'nt they 9 of these little kinda/sorta/maybe cuties here?
and, those ears do look plastic.
Yes there are at least 9 of them, and will somebody please answer the question of whether those are fake plastic ears or if their ears really look that way?
I thirdize the instantiation of a "Cute or Scary" section!
Real ears guys! Either that, or all the oppossums on the net have got hold of the same plastic ones....
How can you guys say scary?? Just look at them! They are so happy to see you they are singing! I love the guy in the middle - the rest are off center but he's all TA-DA! SURPRISE!!
HA HA HA! NTMTOM, you slay me once again! I think there should be a section for "NTMTOM twists your knickers." HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS!
After reviewing a number of pictures of Didelphis virginiana, the Virginia opossum, I concur with Cameleopard: real ears.
By the way, you know what they're singing, don't you?
"Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla Wash. an' Kalamazoo. . ."
"gloooooooooooh
ooooooh
ooooooria
in Excelsis Deo
GLoooooooooh
ooooooh
ooooooria
in Excelsis Deooooooooh"
i think possums are adorable.
i didn't know they could sing though!
Lordy, I actually gasped. Cute but terrifying. I count 10?
They remind me of my cat.
The night a possum came though the catflap is the night the catflap was permanently nailed shut.
That night, my blood-curdling, kidney-chilling fear and loathing, the kind Hunter S. Thompson could only dream of, was born. I hate possums with the white-hot burning of a thousand suns.
And yet I can't help finding this box of plastic-eared buggers cute.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, CUTE OVERLOAD?!?
(P.S. eight maids a-milking to NOMTOM for "fal-al-al-al-al-all.")
I LOVE THEM!!! Yes, they do look like my choir, except a little more "Wind-in-the-Willows"-ish.
NTMTOM, that is by far the best holiday interpretation of a photo of baby possums that I have every experienced. "for they won't go until they get some..." I could even hear the Muppets singing "Won't GO!" in the background.
Von Zeppelin...Bwaaahaha! plus
"Nora's freezing on the
trolley...swaller dollar
cauliflower ally ga roo."
Love the little teefs.
"Frosty the Possum...
had the funniest plastic ears...
If he didn't get figgy pudding...
He would settle for a couple of beers...
Frosty the Possum...
practiced carols all year long...
He would sing his best,
but I wouldn't request,
it's a $5 tip for a song."
"Close the door!!!!!!!!!!!!"
They are scaring me...
Ahahaha I just have this mental image of all of them going "waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!" in chorus!
Look!! A box of kittens for Christmas. Can I hold them, MOM?! Can I?!
mohawks are cute...
The ears are real. I used to docent at a zoo and we had a 'possum used for educational workshops. The ears really do look and feel like soft plastic. They're fabulous to nom on as long as you watch out for those teethies!
Awww, I vote cute! Look at all the fuzziness! Reminds me of those soft fuzzy scarves,........but with leetle pink nosicles I want to tweek! hee hee
Heh! heh! heh!
haha.. this pic is cute and creepy all in the same moment!!
Dear God, that is terrifying.
You should start a list of rules of uncute. Rule #1: large, waxy, bat-like ears.
My office consensus is CUTE. I live in Arkansas and there's never a shortage of 'possums. When they're babies they're just downright cute :)
I'm frightened