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That video is great, especially if you watch it while listening to the "Chariots of Fire" theme, which just happened to start playing on iTunes when I started the video.
Posted by: Chris | March 25, 2005 at 07:27 AM
What's with all the walking/running animals lately? Next, they're going to tell us cheetahs can to.
What?
Posted by: antiroach | March 25, 2005 at 07:44 AM
*shudder*
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | March 25, 2005 at 07:48 AM
With today's modern super-animals, it's only a matter of time until they start attending college, running for Congress, etc. (On second thought, are we really sure that Tom DeLay isn't a clever bipedal octopus? And has anyone ever seen Strom Thurmond and a vampire bat in the same room? Just saying, is all.)
Posted by: Chris | March 25, 2005 at 07:48 AM
Your research dollars at work -
What seemed like a crazy idea -- challenging these bats on an increasingly speedy treadmill ...
No, wait. It still seems like a crazy idea.
Posted by: MOTW | March 25, 2005 at 07:51 AM
Criminals are a superficial, cowardly lot, so my disguise must be evil, to strike terror into their hearts.
(As if an answer, a huge bat flies throuth the open window)
A bat! It's an omen! I shall become . . . a bat!
And thus is born this weird figure of the night, this avenger of evil, the, uh . . . I forget the rest
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | March 25, 2005 at 07:53 AM
"cute, adorable, big-eyed and family-oriented"
WTF!?!
THESE ARE $#@%&@ BATS!!!
Posted by: Doug | March 25, 2005 at 08:04 AM
So I guess it was the bat then the monkey and then the cavemnan? LOL
Posted by: Evelyn | March 25, 2005 at 08:10 AM
"Jane! Stop this crazy thing!*
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | March 25, 2005 at 08:11 AM
Doug,
You read my mind!...
Posted by: julietine | March 25, 2005 at 08:27 AM
Julietine,
Please don't think about Barry Manilow songs, I can't handle it today.
Posted by: Doug | March 25, 2005 at 08:37 AM
So what, this is for the bats who can't figure out echo location?
Sometimes, I think scientists are just stupid
Posted by: Christobol | March 25, 2005 at 08:37 AM
DOug,
How about Cher or Neil Diamond???
Posted by: julietine | March 25, 2005 at 08:42 AM
*sings*
TANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANA
BAT -WAaaaaaaaaaaaaalk!!!
*BANG*
hey..who hit me?
Posted by: Bangi | March 25, 2005 at 08:49 AM
MOTW,
Too funny! I imagined scientists getting to work and putting their lunch pails in their lockers. Suiting up in the white coats and asking each other, "so, what should we do today?"
"Oh, I dunno"
"Hey remember when we put the octopus on the treadmill? That turned out neat and we probably will get our grant renewed!"
"Yea, but remember what happened to the snails, sea cucumbers, centipedes and catfish when we put them on it?"
"It still doesn't work right"
"True, but I think it will go 2.5 MPH, and I've got an idea..."
"OK, but remember the rule: keep it to really ugly animals. We get a bad reputation when we experiment on cute animals."
Posted by: Deontologist | March 25, 2005 at 08:52 AM
For Doug:
I write the words the whole world sings
For judi - this post should have a "gross-out" warning - there were pictures! UGH!
Posted by: City Girl | March 25, 2005 at 08:58 AM
songs - not "words"
My bad.
Carry on.
Posted by: Eleanor | March 25, 2005 at 09:00 AM
Walking octopi, running bats.
Someone has been playing in the plutonium again.
Excuse me, I have to answer the door. There's a snail knocking.
(obscure joke reference)
Posted by: slyeyes | March 25, 2005 at 09:20 AM
Oooh, Jeff almost simulposted with himself! Don't you know you'll go blind?!
Posted by: Deontologist | March 25, 2005 at 09:38 AM
Damn - Here I am spending years of my life studying deadly viruses when all I haad to do to get my Ph.D. was put a bat on a treadmill. Again my hopes of publishing in a good journal are crushed.
Posted by: Mad Scientist | March 25, 2005 at 09:45 AM
Mad...try putting the deadly viruses on a treadmill
Posted by: Bangi | March 25, 2005 at 09:53 AM
Of all bats...why VAMPIRE bats?!
Posted by: John | March 25, 2005 at 09:57 AM
Folks, this is it.
Chick-eating deer, deer-eating monsterously HUGE gators, vampire bats running around, octopi in disquise, suicidal squid, dogs and cats living together!
Somebody call Ted Nugent!!!!
Posted by: Doug | March 25, 2005 at 10:00 AM
I bet whatever viruses gnawed off Michael Jackson's nose probably know how to moonwalk...
Posted by: Mike "Mad's Dork" Weasel | March 25, 2005 at 10:07 AM
hey antiroach - watch those Montana references!
Posted by: moos | March 25, 2005 at 02:17 PM
antiroach -- that link was making perfect sense until the end, when he said it would be fine to get the U.N. involved.
Posted by: everysandwich | March 27, 2005 at 05:56 AM