From Wiki: "The Groundhog (Marmota monax), also called Woodchuck or Whistle Pig, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots."
Whistle pig. Best name ever.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Mr. Broom - Jan 03, 2005 4:46:24 pm PST #190 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
reequeen - Jan 03, 2005 4:50:22 pm PST #191 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
Marmots are the coolest ever.
Betsy HP - Jan 03, 2005 4:51:37 pm PST #192 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Nope. Naked mole rats.
reequeen - Jan 03, 2005 5:04:17 pm PST #193 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
Oh! Now I really have something to think about! ;-D
Frankenbuddha - Jan 03, 2005 5:21:45 pm PST #194 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wait, a marmot is a woodchuck/groundhog? Why does the one in THE BIG LEBOWSKI look like a large, ill-tempered ferret then? Was it just The Dude being too stoned to recognize the animal correctly when he said "Hey man, nice marmot..."?
edited because I can't believe I forgot to capatalize "The Dude".
-t - Jan 03, 2005 5:27:59 pm PST #195 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What are you, a forest ranger, now? [link]
![[link]](http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~courtney/marmot.jpg){kind=link}
I'm gonna go with the Dude being stoned. It's a safe bet, whether he was right or wrong.
Mr. Broom - Jan 03, 2005 5:36:02 pm PST #196 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
It was most likely a ferret (a domestic ferret, which is actually descended from the European polecat, a relative of the wild ferret). The coloring is right for one. [Side note: wild ferrets prey on prairie dogs, which are a type of marmot.]
evil jimi - Jan 03, 2005 5:50:12 pm PST #197 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
The differences are subtle, but detectable.
Hmm, I just read that as delectable.
Una - Jan 03, 2005 6:32:48 pm PST #198 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Why is the rum gone?!?
Gay Boys in Bondage ?
I don't know how Shakespeare knew, several hundred years before it happened, about the biggest band to come out of Idaho.
Okay, as an Idaho native, why the heck have I not heard of this?
*prepares self to be ridiculed*
Gris - Jan 03, 2005 7:35:09 pm PST #199 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Hey, you guys? I heard about this show? With, like, horses and stuff on other planets? I think it was called Lightning Bug or something?
I think it had that robot from that movie in it. Only he wasn't a robot. Or something.
You know what I'm talking about?