Comments on: More than you maybe needed to know about the echidna

By: Jerril

Jerril — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:02:00 +0000

Another one of my favourites is “Oh damn, this tastes horrible. Here, you gotta try it!” … and then people do. Every. Time.

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:50:00 +0000

Spare me the sexyal proclivities of the male echidnas, I have enough problems already.

By: snailspace

snailspace — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:26:00 +0000

Or instead, have a special-edition 4-cent piece. I mean, look at where the number is on that coin. False advertising.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Do you do that with cholera quarantine signs, too?

By: alex4point0

alex4point0 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:54:00 +0000

As an Australian, my first concern is this: We must move the Echidna from the five cent piece to the twenty cent piece as soon as possible. #maths http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Australian_Five_Cents_Rev.png

By: eviladrian

eviladrian — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:06:00 +0000

It’s like when you see a wet paint sign, and you have to touch the wet paint just to check.

By: Wolfie Rankin

Wolfie Rankin — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Coffee, Tea, Ginger Beer or Hot Chocolate?

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:49:00 +0000

Ooooooh. *intrigued*

By: Bersl

Bersl — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:09:00 +0000

The Thor is a gigantic dildo in the shape of a horse penis.

You’re welcome. :D

By: Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet

Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:34:00 +0000

Also, has any one researched the obvious mental illness of clicking on a link even though you have been warned?

By: Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet

Rachael Hoffman-Dachelet — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:33:00 +0000

You-lot have a much to answer for here at Boingboing. First it was the shrinking Japanese lady sushi porn, then the duck penis video, now this. There have been others too. I would say 8 of the top ten horrible scarring mental images that torment me have come from this web site. Seriously, damn.

By: paulio

paulio — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:29:00 +0000

‘heheh what a cute photo’ was my initial reaction. Then I scrolled down. What has been seen can’t be unseen!

Edit: then I read the rest of the article.. Damn you! You knew!! Haha
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This comment system is warped as, great for filtering out crap! Comments on this site are great. These two got through though, and for that I apologise -_-

By: paulio

paulio — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:23:00 +0000

‘heheh what a cute photo’ was my initial reaction. Then I scrolled down. What has been seen can’t be unseen!

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:05:00 +0000

I don’t know about weird animal penis, but have you stood to the right of the Mickey and Walt statue at night and looked at it??

By: nachoproblem

nachoproblem — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:32:00 +0000

On the other hand, makers of really small gloves will be ecstatic.

By: nachoproblem

nachoproblem — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:25:00 +0000

Your best bet, scrutinize the light fixtures, wall graphics, bits of the castle, etc. for “details” that some wag slipped in there.

By: nachoproblem

nachoproblem — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:20:00 +0000

And if we possessed the same ratio of dong to body mass.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:01:00 +0000

They’re actually weirdly intelligent. They live for decades (five or more, apparently) and they are known for problem solving, like piling dishes into a stairway to escape cages.

By: Mr. Son

Mr. Son — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 04:39:00 +0000

Echidna are bigger than I thought. I thought they might be the size of a guinea pig, or a rabbit. More nature shows should give us size comparisons with the animals they show.

By: katkins

katkins — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:38:00 +0000

and, perhaps tangentially, sineplay

By: Artor

Artor — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:57:00 +0000

The Three-Headed Giant from Holy Grail just sprouted a new head in my mind…

By: Artor

Artor — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Using a Thor as a sword? What is that supposed to mean? I can’t envision fighting someone by trying to cut him in half with a Norse god of thunder. I must have missed something here…

By: Carl Burke

Carl Burke — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:31:00 +0000

“Full Monty” in this case being the nearly complete cast of Monty Python.

By: xyzzy123

xyzzy123 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:51:00 +0000

“I’m putting the photo under a cut. Partly for comic effect, and partly because what is seen can never be unseen.”

Sadly, this didn’t work for those of us who use RSS readers (at least, for Google Reader). We got the “full Monty” without any cut. Must go wash my eyes now… :-/

By: francoisroux

francoisroux — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:26:00 +0000

Looks like something a Japanese tentacle freak would design…

By: cdh1971

cdh1971 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:20:00 +0000

This species is nowhere near pre-sapient, the Galactic Uplift Institute would never allow it, especially since there are so many species on Earth ripe for Uplift.

This thing is, such a niche that it will likely never be a candidate for Uplift. Unless of course it is transplanted to another, preferably fallow planet and given the right conditions and at least, I dunno, five or so million years to achieve pre-sapience.

Of course, if we wipe out the whales, dolphins and chimps, and/or fail to Uplift them before we become known to Galactic civilization in a couple hundred years, we may be judged pre-sapient and ripe for Uplift ourselves, and be assigned a Galactic Patron who will genetically and socially engineer us to their version of sapience. Then we will be indentured to them for 100,000 years until granted our freedom.

Our achievement of space flight and use of FTL transit points might not be enough to save us from indenture in the absence of Uplifting other species, given our environmental crimes here on Earth.

Of course, we will always be beholden to our Patrons, even after the period of indenture.

(note: for source, Google “Brin Uplift Series”. Well worth checking out.)

By: snusles

snusles — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:48:00 +0000

I hope there are people reading these comments who haven’t heard of Bad Dragon until today. They’re one of today’s lucky 10,000

By: Buddha Buck

Buddha Buck — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:47:00 +0000

For one thing, I read Maggie Koerth-Baker, so that ups my chances of hearing weird facts about animal penises already.

In general I like reading “weird fact” sites, and collect lots of weird information in the process. Often the same facts will cycle around as one site discovers, e.g., baculums (penis bones), then a couple years later another site posts “holy shit, most mammals have bones in their penises!”.

As Maggie has discovered, weird facts about animal penises are popular, so the same collection of facts will cycle through periodically (penis bones, snakes (and other reptiles, and sharks) having two penises (one served by each testicle), dolphins and whales having prehensile penises, etc).

As an example of a 2010 sighting of the “echidna with 4-headed penis” story, take a look at http://nicholasnghwaeedays.blogspot.com/2010/11/four-penises.html, which includes the picture I most often see.

By: Dan Deezy

Dan Deezy — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:01:00 +0000

You’ve gotta be helluva mohel to deal with that.

By: Mark Pitcavage

Mark Pitcavage — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:45:00 +0000

Now I can finally try cosplay.