Manatee twin babies!

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Aw.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39597000/jpg/_39597009_manatee2_afp203body.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

*swoon*

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow.
Mom manatee look very puffy there, like the marshmallow of the sea.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

When I come up from round the horn
I found a gal what makes me beam
She hold me in her supple flippers
Darlin 'lady of my dreams!

Manatee! Sweet Manatee!
Your mustache bristles tickle me
In places no one ever sees
My soft and loving manatee!

I found her bobbin' in the surf
Her briny smile enchantin' me
We hauled her up and gave her lovin'
A buoyant lass you would agree!

Manatee! Sweet Manatee!
My buxom bovine from the sea
Oh, won't you come and marry me
My warm and flaccid manatee!

― Wintermuté (Wintermute), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair Manatee in Winter Mute

I will never be
your manatee
for I save me
for
wilder times in calmer seas;

my blubber waits
for winter, naught
the sky is mute
on the subject
as i ponder
another
more fair.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

waitaminute, isn't that a Sam & Max song, 'Mute?

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That thing is disgusting.

― Dancing Queen, Friday, 5 December 2003 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

speaking of more fair, I'm still waiting to see
that picture of the Neditee!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We seriously need to have a Worst Manatee Poetry ever competition. This stuff is hilarious.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 5 December 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

no, hstencil will think it's all aimed at my ex, because after all, isn't everything aimed at either hstencil or my ex?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The Stenciled Manatee

Trembling, quivering in
sensitive seas
one eye faces the continent, clouded,
wet with
wisdom received from
elsewhere.

O marshmallow creature
do you not see
my aim is true,
and right at thee?

The manatee has been tagged,
stenciled
in the ghetto of the sea,
not a simple life,
this manatee; of mariner's territory
marked
by no understanding,
languishes in the sea.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Tagged manatee graphitti,
anti propeller propaganda --
aquatic elephant stencil
spray painted at will --
drowned marshmallows
with puffed up attitude,
beedy eyes conclude.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i love you jack cole

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

in a manatee kind of way, er,

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

a manatee's luv
goes "glub glub."

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pataphysical Manatee

Searching the seas
for evidence of
all things small and ancient

I happend upon a manatee,
wise he was, floating,
a nautical derailment,
watery sage of the
continental shelf.

Kelp waved in worship,
in unison silvery schools swam, an
homage to
deep blue knowledge,
surface moves, sun-sparkled;
a Pacific swell of pataphysical proportion.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A baboon threw a rock
from a rotting dock
at a passing manatee
to check its sanity.

The manatee waved
while the baboon bathed
in a bucket of salty water
as the dock began to totter.

When the dock collapsed,
the baboon lost its synapse
and manatee watched him
try to learn to swim.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

how the baboon entered the
equation, no one knows;
and if he swam at last
or sank like a rock is cause for
speculation

but we do know this much
and it is tried and true
that sanity is relative
and madness is the rule.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Grebtest thread ever, evar, EVAR! This has made my year.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

this would've made my year if it weren't for the pair of platypus twins born this past spring:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1048653867412_2003/03/29/nws_320platy.jpg

baby platypusses are called "puggles", by the way. IF THAT'S NOT THE GREATEST THING EVER, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS

― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The one on the left looks like an evil weasel with a fake bill. The one on the right looks like a brown duck with a prosthetically enhanced bill.

I need to get to sleep.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Twin Lovers of the Deep

romeo and juliet
of the ocean deep;
paired up, pre-destined
by hard geographie
never to gaze upon,
never meet.

o sad sky
that divides mammal from marsupial,
take away thy cruel curtain
and leave them be:
the platypus,
and the manatee.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(Monotreme, not marsupial, btw)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"that divides mammal from monotreme"

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a glass of wine, Girolamo.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll drink to that.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 5 December 2003 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

don't givve manatees wine. They're martyrs to it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

At first I read this as Mandee twin babies! and I thought "You dog!"

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I immediately thought
"...in a Mercedes Benz with the windows up
and the temp goes up to the mid 80s."

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

an excerpt from

The Manatee Twins and the Case of the Blubbering Fish

chapter 1

Frisky as overweight kittens, Blub and Flub played in the deep green sea. Suddenly all levity burst like a bubble when when they heard a terrible infra-sobbing from behind a barnacle covered Fridedaire . . .

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

...the door was encrusted, but Blub knocked it loose with a *whap* of his enormous tail. Inside were two small platypus twins and a shoehorn. "It's a mystery", said Flub and....

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

. . . suddenly he looked up to see the bottom of a speedboat, its propellor coming down on his head, the platypii shaking in fear . . .

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Back to our story in a moment. But first a message from our sponsor.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

are you an overweight manatee? like to lose a few pounds before the holidays but are tired of fad diets that dont work?

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

then cut off your penis and donate it to science! call 1-800-MANATEE

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"I've never felt better! You have my guarantee. Before, I felt listless, but now . . . I feel like a large lump of money."

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

We now return to our story, in progress.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Flub!!!"

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Flub-bits and blood littered the sea. Blub and the platypii pondered their predicament. A fin appeared on the horizon, a great white, attracted by the Flub-bits. Blub grabbed the platypii and slowly rolled toward the shelter of a mussel-covered rock, but before he could get there....

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the Macrame Jellyfish appeared, whisking them away to its hide-out inside a sunken pirate ship. there he told them that if the collected all of Flub's bits he could use one of his many crafts to put him together again . . .

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"what would you prefer? a mosaic? pottery? a quilt?"

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"A cell phone", replied Flub, blubberingly.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Blub screamed in terror as he heard the words bubble up from Flub's detached mouth, which was stuck to the underneath of a giant pink starfish. The mouth wouldn't stop chattering at him, only becoming quiet after Blub stuffed in his bag of the other Flub bits he had collected for the Macrame Jellyfish to knit back together.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't decide if tis the saccarine of the baby pics or the posts that got me first.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I am so glad I decided to look through old threads. This has made my day :)

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

See, told you the random button was fun!

― smee (smee), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

twee of the sea--i loved this thread!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

A manatee sighted in the Hudson River, off the coast of Manhattan!!

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060802/NEWS01/608020321/1006/NEWS

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/sirenhudson/#comment

Ha ha:

crypto_randz Says:
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:12 pm
This is a nice light hearted story but I hope this isnt going to be the out come for all the sea serpent sightings this would be a disappointment. I still think though the sea serpents are dinosaurs no matter what.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

The one on the left looks like an evil weasel with a fake bill. The one on the right looks like a brown duck with a prosthetically enhanced bill.
I need to get to sleep.

-- Girolamo Savonarola (gsa...), December 5th, 2003 12:21 AM.

'evil weasel with a fake bill' is easily the best thing I've read in a month.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I was just at an aquarium in Sarasota and the manatees there come swimming right up to the glass to check out the new people approaching! Really cute. That is, until you notice they've got doody hanging off the hole their doody comes out of!

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Watchers tracked this one last month as it swam north â€” first near Delaware, then Maryland, then New Jersey. Saturday, it was seen at 23rd Street in Manhattan, then later at 125th Street in Harlem.

Nice, it went *Across 110th Street"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, it went *Across 110th Street"

Now THAT made me laugh.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

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