Koala RELIEF
Hot damn.
It is HOT.
Hot enough to sneak into this cinderblock haven and look for relief! [Koala makes 'ehn!' sounds]
WAIT A MIN! [sploosh sploosh] WHAT'S THEES!?
[Test Slurpitty test slurpitty]
Yes.
Yes, this will do.
[Sizzling Koala sounds]
According to Sender-Inner Kathy M., "A guy at work's wife sent him these photos of a little Koala who just walked into the back porch looking for a bit of heat relief. She filled up a bucket and this is what happened!"
OMG PONIES!
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Oh, the little tongue! Squeee!
No tongue-hance on pic #3?! [runs off to place water bucket on windowsill of Bronx apt.]
Can we get a closeup on that leetle tongue?!?!
OMG! Why don't I ever live anywhere that Koalas wander up to my back deck?...Pandas would be nice, too...
oh my GOD.
The hands holdin' onto the bucket while sittin' in the WATER????
So does this mean that if I fill up a bucket and put it on my porch, I too will have a koala guest? Oh, if it were only so...
Great pictures!
Can I get an "I Shall Leeck You?"
He needs a little Koala Popsicle, eucalyptus flavor, please...
Oh man. The tongue! The wet koala beard!
I want to live in this mythical land where koalas roam free! I will gladly trade my beloved Pittsburgh's carnivorous hawk and a few rabid Steelers fans for it.
I don't know...when word gets out back in the forest, they could have many visitors.
Oooh - that means more pictures!
OMG
This is roughly one of the cutest thing's I've ever seen. Pic number 4 is just obscenely cute. The descriptions are hilarious, too.
Too sweeeeet ! Koalas are my favorite animule after kittehs.
They're having a heat wave down under, glad to know the koalas are coping well ! Ingenious leetle bugger.
Yes, and I second-3rd-4th the call for a tongue-hance.
ah! the ear floof!
eeeeeennn! lookit'the hanzzzzz! such amazing cuteness just wandering around. Is it true their fur feels like a brillo pad? How could that be?
Quick! Get him a Mai Tai!
SPLODE !!!
OMG seriously this one has to be my favorite. Especially if this is a WILD koala just at someone's backyard. Makes me want to move to Australia! Look at that sweet little happy face!
Before I even read all of the text my first reaction at the first pic was: Is that koala tounge? ZOMG PONIES !!1!1
I'd put a bucket out on my 4th floor NYC apt fire escape but I'm not sure I'd like what would crawl in there... :/
Lies! This is too awesome. No way this actually happened. I don't believe it.
I have to agree with Jorden about the hands holding on to the sides.
DED.
COXCU of koala tongue!!!! I must have eet.
Did anyone notice the water turned a little brown after the koala sits in it (and I don't think it's because it's reflecting the koala's fur)? *shifty eyes*
Oh, now you've done it, CO. This little guy is so cute he makes my heart hurt. Even if I don't DIE from a heart attack, you have ruined me forever. I'm unable to do anything but stare at heemz and wish for a porch-koala of my own. You'll be hearing from my lawyer when and if I manage to navigate away from this page and find one ;)
Hmm...excellent. Cool and clean. Now...where are the leaves I need? Get me them nice person?
@chanpon, I bleeve he's just a bit... dusty. Yes, dusty.
ahh...brown wateres. Koala needed a bath as well. he's presh.
I totally want to give him a eucalyptus pasickie!!
too adorabulls!!! awesome.
I see I am not the first who saw these pix and immediately wanted to check for a koala on my porch....well, I found a raccoon there once, and he was chowing down on some garbage that hadn't *quite* made it to the can.... wasn't nearly as cute!
Somebody pass the little guy a loofah!
Must have koala tongue C.O.X.C.U. STAT!
Man, that koala needs some major bathing. Check out the color of the water after he dipped in. Must be nice being a cool pool in such hot weather...
Maybe he's not dirty. Maybe... Koalas aren't colourfast?!
(Actually, that makes kinda sense, coz I don't think they're any kind of fast, are they?)
That is one hot dirty koala! With thumbs no less!
GASP
Easily one of my all time favourites too.
The only thing keeping me going through my mid-week doldrums is the picture I've come up with in my mind: I'm imagining the bowl of water I would like to set out for a koala, only the water freezes, so the koala puts on his little ice skates and proceeds to do a couple triple toe loops. Yeah, it could happen.
Here's the back story:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25007478-2,00.html
oh my god!
*runs home to place 12 bowls of water on back porch and surrounding area hoping to attract koala-babeh*
love his right hand in the last shot, hes all like "this is SO excellent!"
He needs a little rubber duckie, and will someone please turn on the jacuzzi jets?!
wait a minut! are you supposed to get em wet ????
Hmph. If I put a bucket of water on my porch, I'd probably just get a squirrel. Or a skunk. Or a filthy Canadian goose.
Get him a glass of champagne and a "bachelorette"!!!
After reading Lesley's link, should it maybe go under ResQte as well?
AuntieMame: If I put a bucket of water on my porch, all I'd get is a block of ice. I'll trade you for whatever you get.
He's adorable and everything, but the very first thing that popped into my mind was that he looked like a tiny wet ewok.
If I left a bucket of water on the porch in the last neighbourhood I lived in I'd probably find a hobo taking a bath. Not a pretty thought.
But I love this hot koala! *discreetly hands him a bar of soap and a washcloth*
Oh wow! And check out more koalas - and TONGUES - in the photo gallery that accompanies the news.co.au site.
I don't know how to insert the link, but it's easy to find once you're on the link posted just above this.
Hey, you peoples really know how to throw a party. How 'bout a little drinky poo?
Mar-soup-ial.
I did not know that Aussie's have a french accent. Or maybe it's just the koalas, eh?
Seriously people, the little man sitting in the "cold tub" with his paws on the sides just killed me!!
This post is actually automatic writing from my spirit. I actually said "oh my lord" out loud before I died...
I wonder what a wet koala smells like. I'm hoping eucalyptus. (The koala tea of Mercy is not strained)
More thirsty koalas :
http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5037290-5014156,00.html
Okay, for me, personally, this has to be the best post ever. I do not think this little story can ever be topped.OMG Ponies indeed.
That's the end, I've got nothing else.
Also, I'm with everyone who would like to put out a little tub with water and wait for one of these cuties to walk in.
Somehow, this being Ireland, it seems unlikely, though. Sigh.