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WHAT MANNER OF BEAST IS THIS

A sign of the apocalypse appears in Sydney:
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Posted by Tim B. on 07/22/2006 at 01:27 PM
  1. It’s a Jackalope, of course!

    Posted by Steven Den Beste on 2006 07 22 at 01:35 PM • permalink

  2. Crapcakes!  S. Den Beste beat me to it!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 07 22 at 01:40 PM • permalink

  3. I see no antlers… looks more like a frabbit to me.

    Posted by Franklin on 2006 07 22 at 01:58 PM • permalink

  4. I mean… those are ears… aren’t they? And that is a foxy tail.  I know that some unusual critters have evolved down under but that one is a bit strange. Do you suppose that it’s marsupial? Call Guieniss Guieness Ripley’s.

    Posted by Franklin on 2006 07 22 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  5. Hmmmm. It looks amazingly like some of the strange animals that have been spotted in the woods near Paco Industries Plutonium Plant No. 1. According to a survey taken in our employees’ cafeteria, they’re not very tasty.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 22 at 02:26 PM • permalink

  6. Paco, I noticed a bentup ear in my tuna sandwich the other day…

    Posted by ushie on 2006 07 22 at 02:38 PM • permalink

  7. Ushie — Of course you did.  The hooves go into the calcium supplements.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 22 at 02:56 PM • permalink

  8. Ohhh.  Then what are those thin spiky things in the salad?

    Posted by ushie on 2006 07 22 at 03:03 PM • permalink

  9. Steven has it right. It is a Jackalope. The foxy tail, I admit, throws a soupçon of doubt on it, but I’m 99% positive it’s a Jackalope. Or - long shot here - a Wallabit. But they’re extremely rare. The thing that’s got me scratching my head is how someone got it from Texas to Sydney without being stopped at customs.

    Posted by ekw on 2006 07 22 at 03:45 PM • permalink

  10. I admit that “jackalope” was the first thing to come to me, as well. 

    Does anyone have a picture of a wallabit?  I’ve watched all of Attenborough’s docs and I don’t ever remember hearing about a wallabit.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 22 at 03:48 PM • permalink

  11. #8: Whiskers would be my guess.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 22 at 03:57 PM • permalink

  12. its a rabbit designed by a commitee.

    Posted by phillip on 2006 07 22 at 04:07 PM • permalink

  13. #9 The thing that’s got me scratching my head is how someone got it from Texas to Sydney without being stopped at customs.

    No doubt it stowed away on a freighter and swam ashore after dark.  Just what a sneaky illegal would do.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 07 22 at 04:33 PM • permalink

  14. It’s obviously a fake, stitched together from various critter parts.
    Just like that plattypuss thing y’all down there tried to put over on us.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 07 22 at 04:45 PM • permalink

  15. Yeah. The great platypus hoax. Part cat part duck. Puhleez. Like a cat would mate with a duck. The cat would eat a duck but not mate with one. A goose, mmm…maybe, but not a duck. You guys must be really loony, thinking we’d fall for that one.

    Posted by ekw on 2006 07 22 at 04:57 PM • permalink

  16. The swimming ashore from a freighter idea is enticing, Rebecca. Except for one tiny thing: Jackalopes can’t swim! Nice try, though…Rebecca (if that’s your real name).

    Posted by ekw on 2006 07 22 at 05:07 PM • permalink

  17. You Aussies have been putting stuff over on us for years, like that funny-looking hoppy thing. Yeah, right.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 07 22 at 05:16 PM • permalink

  18. It’s got a big chest and nice tail.

    Obviously, it’s a Playboy Bunny!

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 07 22 at 05:24 PM • permalink

  19. It’s a Beaztello. Or Costzley! Now that’s a critter!

    Posted by Gravelly on 2006 07 22 at 05:25 PM • permalink

  20. Wait a minute. That looks exactly like that hamster wronwright sold to paco!

    Posted by geoff on 2006 07 22 at 05:45 PM • permalink

  21. #20: Well, that’s certainly what it looked like when Rudolph finished chewing on it.

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 22 at 06:25 PM • permalink

  22. Youdeluded fools!!!!
    It obviously a rabbit which has been detained at Guantanimo! See the wires!!!
    /Miranda off

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 22 at 06:56 PM • permalink

  23. It’s Goldstein’s armadillo wearing a fur coat.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 22 at 06:58 PM • permalink

  24. Upon closer inspection…

    It seems it might be a decoy object set up by the enemy and its adherents with the purpose of distracting the bushitlerhaliburto and his RWDBs so that the new updated and purified Official Party Approved Rhetoric and Thought Police Enforcement Manual could be slipped through to the college campuses.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 07 22 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  25. Oh dear GOD!  I have been eating WHISKERS!

    Well, actually, they taste kinda good with French dressing.

    Posted by ushie on 2006 07 22 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  26. Is that what the Bunny f#@$%^er did? ewwwwwww

    Sing Song Time all together now….!!!

    On the farm, Ev’ry Friday
    On the farm, It’s rabbit pie day
    So ev’ry Friday, that ever comes along
    I get up early,And sing this little song…

    Refrain 1
    Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run
    Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run
    Bang, bang, bang, bang! goes the farmer’s gun
    Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run

    refrain 2
    Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run
    Don’t give the farmer his fun, fun,fun
    He’ll get by without his rabbit pie
    So run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run

    On the farm, No poor rabbit
    Comes to harm, Because I grab it
    They jump and frolic, Whenever I go by
    They know I help ‘em, To dodge the rabbit pie!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 07 22 at 07:35 PM • permalink

  27. I am just amazed at the stupidity of the greyhounds, falling for this one over and over again.

    Using a real hare and letting the dogs catch it would probably cause a few complaints. I wonder if replacing the fake hare with a jumbo sized can of My Dog, zooming along at 50kph, would be a better incentive?

    Posted by dipole on 2006 07 22 at 09:34 PM • permalink

  28. Even I know that picture is so not a jackalope.
    Real jackalopes

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 22 at 09:35 PM • permalink

  29. See, Mr/Ms smarty ekw!  So it could theoretically swim!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 07 22 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  30. Leave it to arbed to try and bring the curtain down on the jakalope mystery. Still, the possibility remains that it could be a Wallabit. As to Ms. Rebecca, pretending she doesn’t know I’m a handsome Mr. (which is what girls do when they got a yen fer a fella), well, I’ll allow the slimmest of possibilties for a swim as long as it wasn’t more than 10 or 20 meters. Another possibility is that it hopped from ship to ship in the harbor working its way to the cargo dock where it made good its escape only to land on that strange metal dog track lure holder. OR, the real gem of a possibility is that the jackalope had contracted to appear at the track for a certain period of time for a rather hefty fee. They can speak, you know. Oh, yes…they can speak English and Spanish.

    Why are you all looking at me oddly? Is there mustard on my chin? Wha..I see. Leave me the last person defending the Jackalope story. Fine. Try and make me look like I’m crackers. You’ll see. When that Jackalope’s contract is up I’ll bring him and his manager round and show you. All of you. Then who’ll be laughing, eh? Then who’ll be the ones with egg on their faces? YOU, that’s who. All a youse. Then who’ll be laughin’, eh? ME, that’s who’ll be laughin’. Here…listen to this: Heh heh. There see? I laughed a small bit just there. That’s confidence. Real confidence.

    ~{{{sob}}}~

    Posted by ekw on 2006 07 22 at 10:31 PM • permalink

  31. I think the picture gives credence to the rumors that there are some people who catch jackalopes only to cruelly remove the antlers.  It seems that someone convinced the PETA people that jackalope antlers were the only true aphrodisiac.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 22 at 11:03 PM • permalink

  32. I don’t know what I’d call it…but I’ll bet it’s capable of approaching Fisk-1 velocity. 

    And if the hounds do catch it, clearly it deserves whatever happens.

    Posted by Carl H on 2006 07 22 at 11:20 PM • permalink

  33. EKW — The platypus is proof God invented cannabis.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 22 at 11:48 PM • permalink

  34. Did someone mention PETA?

    (Courtesy IsraellyCool.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 23 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  35. What? No photos of two-faced kittens to go with this post?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 23 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  36. No, the platypus is a cross between a duck, a rabbit, some kind of marsupial (not sure which) and a beaver.

    This is definitely a rox.

    Posted by kae on 2006 07 23 at 03:43 AM • permalink

  37. you sure it’s a rox? It could be a squunk in molt?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 07 23 at 03:59 AM • permalink

  38. Tim, you have this pathetic fake bunny, while over at Powerline they have serious, meaningful, totally relevant links to the Miss Universe Pageant!
    And Miss Australia is favourite.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 07 23 at 04:31 AM • permalink

  39. 10,000   dead dogs says a lot of very stupid people are involved in that industry, as evidenced by the photos.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2006 07 23 at 08:12 AM • permalink

  40. It’s one of those James Lilek’s sundered bunnies, made out of cotton balls, Elmer’s Glue and formaldehyde.

    Posted by Mike_W on 2006 07 23 at 09:24 AM • permalink

  41. #38: Miss Australia . . . YOWSA!!

    Posted by paco on 2006 07 23 at 01:47 PM • permalink

  42. #14 & #15, dont ya know it lays eggs too?

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 23 at 11:21 PM • permalink

  43. Looks like the Imperial Warren™ has been hijacking the Tardis again after getting into the Sumerian mead I’ve got in the shed. 

    I’ll give them a talking to after I hide the knives. 

    Elizabeth
    Imperial Keeper of Killer Lagomorphs

    Posted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2006 07 24 at 04:29 PM • permalink

  44. Hi tim tam, it’s nearly my birthday.

    Hi Whaleeee!!

    ok, I would like to be a play bunny!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 07 24 at 06:29 PM • permalink

  45. Damn, 44 comments and no one has identified it yet.  It’s a Wolpertinger.  I saw one at the Museum of Natural History in Munich after attending Oktoberfest there in 1994.

    Posted by charles austin on 2006 07 24 at 06:54 PM • permalink

  46. I would like to say a word for the wascally wabbits of the world.


    They have fired no wockets at anyone.


    All dey do is dig holes and fill them with more wascally wabbits, some of which accidentally make deir way into wabbit stew (tastes even better than chicken).


    Personally those involved in the greyhound industry (and they’re a wabbittys weird lot) should show some consideration for the current international problems in the Middle East.


    Leave the Ware Wabbits alone.


    Why not tie a Hezbollah Muslim to the drag and have a dozen Israel soldiers chase him at a convenient handicap.


    Might attract a few more people to the dawgs than presently bother to go

    Posted by MarshallD on 2006 07 25 at 06:08 AM • permalink

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