– – He’s a bit of a slacker, but you gotta love the Wanchai Ferry panda featured in their commercials, even if he does seem to be a couch potato living off the human couple shown.- -Why not have Chinese food at home?- -He didn’t feel like going out, anyways!
While cute and a wonderful talking animal, it’s probably not a great idea to have a real panda wandering around your kitchen as they’re territorial and can be vicious…
– – A furry-friendly commercial for GoRVing features several “Ambassadors of Affordability” that include a bison, bear, owl, rabbit, and fox. While promoting RV vacations, they caper out to the tune of “Back in the Saddle Again” and verbalize. If you visit the website (www.gorving.com), you can click on each animal and hear a brief commentary.
Four such commercials are in the series, and in one the bison and fox go on a romantic excursion and wind up toasting marshmallows under the stars.–The commercials are cute and well-done! 
– – Happy Easter, Foxsylvania Readers! But if asked to join the Hare Club for Men…
…Decline!
– – They’ll never call a tuna that…but they’ve found an enormous crustacean scouring the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, a giant isopod called Bathynomus giganteus related to shrimp and crabs that measured 2-1/2 feet long and was found hooked onto the bottom of a remotely-operated vehicle at a depth of 8,500 feet!
Now most giant isopods are less than a foot long, making the recent discovery a supersized version. This could be because of a condition called gigantism, which is thought to be common among crustaceans inhabiting especially cold water regions. In addition to larger size, colder temperatures tend to be conducive to longer life spans, and the deeper the water, the bigger the critter.
Giant isopods are predators that feed on carcasses of dead whales and fish, and have also been known to attack sea dwellers that are alive and swimming. Such creatures have existed for more than 160 million years.- -Nature is scary, which is just how I like it!
– – Happy April Fool’s Day, but I swear that I am not making this up, and hope that you are not eating: State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth “resuscitation” to a long-dead opossum along a highway…
The incident occurred in Oliver Township about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The 55-year-old man was seen by one person kneeling before the deceased animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt. It’s not that this publication doesn’t appreciate the effort to save viable animals, but this was an ex-possum…
Possibly he was then planning to fit the opossum with sunglasses in hopes of pursuing some “Weekend at Bernie’s” action…
– – Anecdotal accounts have existed for thousands of years of animals foreseeing natural disasters such as earthquakes; birds, dogs, snakes, cows, and other creatures have been attributed with such abilities, while documentation could not be reliably made.
A pair of behavioral biologists, Rachel Grant and Tim Halliday, have recently documented proof in the current issue of the Journal of Zoology that large numbers of toads fled a breeding area five days before a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck L’Aquila, Italy in April of 2009. With weather variables such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, and rainfall normal, it is speculated that the toads may have picked up on environmental signals prior to the earthquake such as foreshocks or changes in naturally occurring magnetic fields that encouraged them to flee.
Scientists who are already studying amphibians in earthquake-prone areas such as Indonesia are being looked to in order to determine if the behavior occurs again...listen to the animals, humans, or ignore them at your peril!
– – An image macro and one of a number of Advice Dog variations, Philosoraptor originated on 4chan with the image starting out as a T-shirt design on Lonelydinosaur.com. Philosoraptor challenges the reader with his deep, existential, and Paleolithic questions…in my book, he’s far cooler than Advice Dog!
The Urban Dictionary defines Philosoraptor as one who engages in aggressive moral or ethical debate tactics…you are alive (for the moment) when the Philosoraptor engages you in Socratic dialogue, so try to show a little respect or he will open your mind using eighty razor sharp teeth and two 4-inch sickle claws…
– – It’s still hard for me to believe that John Candy is dead, taken way too young of a heart attack in 1994 at only 43 years of age. John created many memorable characters, but as a furry I love him most for his creation of the half-man, half-dog (or Mawg, also seen as Mog) Barfolomew in the 1987 Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs, an obvious parody of Star Wars and Barf a cheaper version of Chewbacca. The film did modestly at the box office, being issued as it was ten years after the movie it parodied. Brooks’ blend of slapstick and genre parody was getting old even in 1987, but the film remains funny and a cult classic.
Memorable quote: “It’s not that we’re afraid, far from it, it’s just that we’ve got this thing about death…It’s not us!” Who better to be his own best friend than this marvelous John Candy creation?– –RIP, John, and thank you…
– – We’ve done it…100,000 hits! Just a note of thanks assisted by the Courage Wolf to mark the occasion here on humble little Foxsylvania!
Thanks so much for reading this wonderful nonsense, and for making this place one of the stopping points in your on-line travels!- –Two paws up!
– – Now this is disturbing, not that the Burger King isn’t; food which fights back as people attempt to eat it! The new Grey’s campaign for Tums features furious and funny food fights (– -Holy alliteration, Batman!) that are tamed only by the fast-acting antacid! Talk about food coming back on you…
There are three spots, in one of which a spicy chicken wing whacks its would-be consumer repeatedly across the face, complete with kung fu movie sound effects! The guy winds up with his face liberally decorated with barbecue sauce…PETA would love this! Another spot features tacos of terror…(of course, tacos and other foods have been known to come back for another round the next day!)
Tums, not surprisingly, takes the fight out of the pugilistic entrees. (–Imagine a classic martial arts film on G4 or the like in which Bruce Lee enters a Kentucky Fried Chicken and challenges to take on any poultry wing in the place!- -Or perhaps, Night of the Living Dead Shrimp!) This does, however, add new meaning to the warning to watch what you eat…be afraid, be very afraid! 😉
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