From the Blog that Likes to Say Aaaah...
Cop this lot. Personally I think they should be wearing little knitted coats...
# posted by Nige : 10:09 AM
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- Name:Bryan Appleyard
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
12 Comments:
At October 18, 2007 11:22 AM,
Big Chip Dale said…
Inspired material, Nige. I'm going to shave my nephew's hampster and send you the pictures. This is clearly what this blog has been missing.
At October 18, 2007 11:35 AM,
Nige said…
Yes and it should get Bryan good and annoyed. Look forward to seeing those pix - I recommend the Gilette Fusion (Rodent Edition).
At October 18, 2007 11:57 AM,
Big Chip Dale said…
I'm not a man whose given to gushing with sentiment but can I say that it's so good to finally meet a man who shares my enthusiasm for shaving rodents.
At October 18, 2007 3:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
It's all very touching, this male bonding over cute little animals, but don't you think you should form some sort of support group ? You could call it Of Mice and Men
J Cheever Loophole
At October 18, 2007 3:46 PM,
Nige said…
It's a very special man thing, Cheever - and here's one for you, Chip...
At October 18, 2007 3:56 PM,
Big Chip Dale said…
Nige, you are a true gentleman. Bryan would never be so thoughtful, even after I praised him for the picture of him wearing his cat hat.
For various reasons, I've been in tears most of the day, but that has just made things right again.
At October 18, 2007 4:00 PM,
Susan B. said…
Ah, the cute guinea pigs. I can practically smell them across the blogosphere. My eldest brother had a menagerie in our garage when I was a kid. He had: guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, snakes, turtles, and a big white rat. The big white rat was very smart and knew how to unlock his cage door. He marauded, usually at night, terrorizing the other critters. Once, when the female hamster had new babies, she chattered at him angrily when he stuck his nose into her cage to sniff them (I think he wanted to eat them). My brother (now an anthropologist) was watching this behavior and got to see the enraged hamster charge the big rat: He (the rat, not my brother) bit off her arm. She then ate her babies. Ever after she was a lonely one-armed hamster.
Oh, God. It was nature red in tooth and claw out in our garage. The white rat outlived everyone and turned yellow from urinating on himself. Then my mother found a snakeskin but no snake and decided Bill had to get rid of the menagerie.
Ah, childhood......
At October 18, 2007 4:11 PM,
Nige said…
God yes Susan - keeping pets (and surviving in a school playground) teach you all you need to know about life. Especially if you've got a killer white rat like that one.
Keep up the pet talk, everybody - it will enrage the Master when he returns...
At October 18, 2007 4:19 PM,
Nige said…
Talking of guinea pigs, my own pet cavy - an exceptionally tame and affectionate semi-albino who, from certain angles, bore a striking resemblance to Harold MacMillan - was the subject of the first piece I ever had in print, in the school magazine. Really it's been downhill ever since...
At October 18, 2007 4:24 PM,
Big Chip Dale said…
Unfortunately, Nige, I'm with the Master when it comes to pets. I've never owned one in my life. I do like to wear hampster, though, and gerbil also feels good against my skin.
At October 18, 2007 4:34 PM,
Nige said…
But how about this, Chip? Could any man resist?
At October 18, 2007 5:47 PM,
Big Chip Dale said…
What's the other pig doing? Ah, I see... So then, Nige. Pig porn is part of your plan to get this blog raided by the police before Bryan gets back? Admirable. I suppose the anti-pig porn detectives are already at Heathrow with their rubber gloves and extra long fingers?
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