By tigtog on March 21, 2012
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by otters that look like Benedict Cumberbatch.
Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch: A Visual Examination.
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone
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Who is Benedict Cumberbatch? The face looks almost familiar, but I’m not sure why.
Damn, you beat me to it.
Wot David Irving @ 1 said.
He plays Sherlock Holmes. I’m a bit underwhelmed by him, but he has been very popular in the role.
Ah. He looks too much like a Rupert to be a very convincing Holmes.
In one New Xealand high school, farting during a test constitutes a breach of the school values of honesty, responsibility and respect.
Is Hajnal Black whimsical or stoush? I’ll play it safe and go for Paul Tully’s youtube plea for her to hand herself in.
David Irving (no relation), it’s really all in the performance. He’s no Jeremy Brett, but who is?
Bring back Basil Rathbone I say.
Re Hajnal Black, is height enhancement surgery a gateway procedure to a life of criminality?
My immediate response, David Irving beat me to it.
Why do Otters want to look like Patrick Cumberbund, or whatever his name is?
If they want to look like what’s his name, does this mean they also want look like Keira Knightly?
Ah, but wait. I have misread it.
Why does Sherlock Homes want took like an Otter?
Looking at the photo, I’d say the impersonator would prefer to look like just about anything than who he is. Also, gains control of Otter discourse.
They now only seek to be like this new Alpha Otter. The merchandising rights alone must be worth several decaying river fish or a quarter of a bucket of yabbies.
Perhaps it was a pretext for a visit to Russia on other “business”.
Benedict resembles a young David Williamson, the well-known Australian otter.
Paul @ 10 – that’s not necessary:-(
What is necessary, though, is the CIA denying their role in the greens anti coal thing. Clive Palmer, the comedy gift that keeps giving.
Oi – NOTHING about Clive Palmer is whimsical. He is definitely off topic for this thread!
It is hard to differentiate between the otters and Patrick, so we wonder if its not really about young Patrick being ottered by tigtog, unless he is a significant otter rather than the subaltern despised otter described sympathetically by great minds like the philosopher Levinas.
Is there any truth to the rumour that Clive Palmer wanted to be a “star reporter“?
For an Australian perspective can we have photos of otters who look like members of the Otto family?
Paul [email protected]
He gets ten demerit points for that? He has every reason to feel aggrieved.
I wonder what he would have got if it had been a science exam and he had lit up his fart to test the combustibility of methane
in the interest of scientific inquiry,in long schoolboy tradition.When I was a little girl I always wanted an Otter. Now I’m an old sheila I still lust after a critter that finds so much joy in life but I now understand that having an otter as a pet just aint goin to happen, given the animal welfare aspect of this longed for ownership.
Bugger.
Absolute must have!
The Image Fulgurator – Aparat zur minimal-invasiven Manipulation von Fotographien
*17 must mean Miranda Otter!
I must mention here that my favourite conductor is Otter Klemperer and for a good movie, you can’t go past Otter Preminger.
Used to be millions of animal books about when I was a kid, and half them were Otter stories. Otters are always feisty, slightly bright, perservering little guys battling against against foxes, bad people and hunting dogs.
After reading an Otter tale you always want to become a gallant, battling little character like the ones in the book, which no doubt would gratify the”olds”, no end.
Otter nonsense.
It was said of the cricketer Cunis, that his bowling, like his name, was neither one thing nor the otter.
Bob Cunis (New Zealand test cricketer).
I should have mentioned that both Willem van Otterloo and Otter Klemperer are renown for their interpretations of the Italian composer Otterino Respighi, whose work often alludes to a return to classical themes, perhaps along the lines of Sir Lancelotter, King Otter, and the knights of the round Table.
Klemperer’s chief claim to fame is that he is, of course, the father of Werner Klemperer, whose place in Hollywood’s hallowed Hall of Immortals rest on his depiction of Colonel Klink, of “Hogan’s Heroes”.
We have much to thank these wily aquatic stoats and fish-gorging marine ferrets, as to our cultural heritage.
obscenity, sedition, blasphemy:-
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-23/historian-uncovers-australias-censored-books/3908234
“. . . friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation! . . .”
a.v.
“Offensive obscenity”, what’s more… phhwwaooarr!
Asbestos gloves on down behind the woodshed, eye-ball goggling your dog-eared copy of “Man Junior”..
Life Imitates Fart Department.
Borat’s “Kazakhstan Anthem” has been played at a medal ceremony in Dubai, instead of the true national anthem.