YSaC, Vol. 525: Have a spiny, briny Christmas …
In case you’re still frantically looking for a Christmas present for that special someone:
Christmas Hedgehogs
i have like 7 young under 6 months old hedgies that needs new homes before the 20th’ i am leaving town to visit my family, and have to get rid of most of my kids, before i leave, if i could i would keep them all, that was my main plan, but i have to rehome them because i got to have some cash to make it back home, and to get a few gifts for my sisters kids.. if it wasnt for me having no choice i wouldnt let them go, i want then to go to a good home, please know how to care for them, if not i could show/tell you in 10 mins, there really simple.. no noise, no smell, the eat kitten food, and already litter trained..i paid 250 each plus shiping for the adults, but i am letting them go for 100 each for anyone you want, i just want them to find good forever homes, they would make a great christmas gift for someone, =)
i have male and female, with many colors..
PLEASE CALL ME BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE AROUND THE COMP A LOT..
xxx.xxx.xxxx
THANK YOU
Christmas Hedgehogs was the little-known sequel to Year Without a Santa Claus. In it, the main character, Spiny, has to convince Santa that boys and girls around the world believe in him. He does this by stealing all of the periods from all of the sentences. Not surprisingly, this doesn’t work, as now Santa can’t understand a damned thing anyone is saying. Heat Miser and Cold Miser make a guest appearance, singing their showstopping number, “I Have to Get Rid of Most of My Kids, Before I Leave.” Santa realizes that hedgehogs are the true spirit of Christmas, and decides to retire and make Spiny into the new symbol of Christmas.
You can blame/thank sarajean80 for this one. Now get off the computer and go spend time with your family.
I’m all snarkless today, because it’s Christmas Eve and baby hedgehogs are incredibly cute creatures.
(If you don’t already know that, do a quick image search.)
Also, here’s a three-part poem I wrote a while back, with some hedgehogs in it.
A man who writes poems about hedgehogs? My heart’s all aflutter.
I’ll even read it to you if you follow that link. Since it’s an online-only magazine, Unsplendid asks its contributors to record audio of the poems they publish there.
Have ya got one about Bush babies?
Hehe..awesome poem isaac. The Queen of Hearts, she had more than some tarts, eh?
Have a great Winter Break Sir Monkness!
In fact, here’s a link to that image search I mentioned.
Warning: Intense cuteness behind that link.
Awwww, the poor little babies with their teeny-weeny legs in casts. It made me want to take them all home! But the original post cause no such motherly instincts in me. Do hedgehogs really cost $100-$250?? As I only adopt pets from shelters maybe I don’t have a reliable yardstick to measure pet prices.
I think that might have been the closest I ever came to squeeing.
I did warn you.
Oh no! Will I have to replace my baby marmoset with a baby hedgehog now?
Terminal cuteness.
I was very confused about this one, until I realised they were talking about actual living hedgehogs and not the chocolate type.
http://www.purdys.com/Christmas-Hedgehogs-P203.aspx
If only all kids were so easy to sell…. no, sorry, I mean rehome.
Happy holidays, everyone.
Many colors of hedgehog for sale… er rehoming.
If there is a blue one I’ll totally dish out the $100 price… er rehoming… fee.
I’d like glitter on mine, please.
I’m pretty in love with hedgehogs, and have been since I was little and read Beatrix Potter books. I’ve always wanted one.
I’d like one that’s purple with red tips. That would be both cute and bad-ass.
My sister had an albino one, it was adorable. She got rid of it though; it had babies and then ate them, which made her somehow a little less cute to my sister.
Yeah, most rodents you have to watch out for that. Most of the time it’s best to rear the babies of rodentia yourself or keep the mother extremely well fed. It’s even worse for the ones that were raised by people because their instincts get all screwed up.
Referring to them has his/her “kids” weirded me out a bit. More so that the rest of the ad, even.
I wasn’t even going to go there. Either “hedgehogs” is an innuendo for her actual children, or we are looking at crazy cat lady syndrome here.
In either case, selling her children to others so she can afford to take a trip is just… I mean… no.
Most likely though this is a thinly veiled ploy designed to convince people not to report her for selling animals with a pethetic sob story.
Then again even if it was true I still report her. Because I’m a mean little piece of work.
I got a hedgehog for Christmas one year. It was awesome (seriously).
In Soviet Russia, hedgehog rehome you for Christmas.
Uh. . . how was that?
In Soviet Russia, kids get rid of You!
Insanity is hereditary – you get it from your kids.
(I forget the original attribution. It was(/still is, I guess,) a favorite (mis?)quotation of my mother’s.)
(Mmm, nested parentheses. : ) )
Be careful with that, Addicted…
http://xkcd.com/541/
My mother quoted that too. Perhaps it’s just wisdom that occurs to you whilst parenting.
(I’m a huge fan of parenthesis (always have been) ; I’m just retentive enough that I even like using them properly in boolean searching. Yes, I’m weird, but I managed to get a job that rewards skills such as that …)
One question, and perhaps I am being too logical about this, if the hedgehogs make such great gifts, why is the poster not giving them to his/her sister’s kids?
Perhaps there’s some FAA regulation about transporting hedgehogs on an airplane… I mean, Sonic could bust through walls with his spines so I imagine that might be a concern on an aircraft.
I mean, Sonic could bust through walls with his spines so I imagine that might be a concern on an aircraft.
Ya think?
Kelli, some very odd states have laws against owning anything cute. For instance, Californians cannot own Quaker parakeets, ferrets, or hedgehogs legally.
As a side note, I wish you could all smell my hands right now. I just finished the white wine, thyme, rosemary, garlic, oj, and black pepper marinade for the leg of lamb. It’s FAB-ulous!
I think Chinchillas are illegal in some major cities. Or maybe I’m just making stuff up. I don’t remember.
maybe they just should be?
Can’t purchase a ferret in NYC. I have seen them at the vets’ there, though, so apparently if you bring one in from elsewhere, they don’t do anything. I don’t know why. Maybe they just hate on cute rodents.
Please don’t blame me for this asshat, I’m just the messenger 🙂
Happy holidays, everyone ♥
Good find!
Hitching a ride on your holiday wishes, sarajean, to wish my own to everyone here.
I’m on my way to Bethlehem. (Yes, seriously. I live nearby in Jerusalem.) All the YSaC crowd will have a little place in my heart while I’m there.
Cled, how Awesome! Are you going on a donkey? Will you stay in a stable? Will there be sheep and wise men? 8) Enjoy, no matter what!
as in spiny norman???
Dinsdale?!
Dinsdale?!
Dinsdale, Dinsdale?!
Python reference for the WIN!
I don’t see what’s so bad about this one. She has a litter of hedgehogs that she can no longer take car of so she wants homes for them. Hedgehogs are adorable.
BassBone, what’s “bad” is the reference to the hedgehogs as the poster’s kids, while at the same time trying to sell them off. Then there’s the punctuation missing, the lack of capitals, the speeling, etc. These are a few of our favorite things!
Now that I look at it again, I notice this:
“i paid 250 each plus shiping for the adults” (emphasis added)
Assuming that’s supposed to say “shipping,” who sent hedgehogs through the mail???
There is clearly something I’m not understanding here.
Dogs, cats, birds, and I would think other animals, are often shipped via airline or USPS. There are regulations, but it can be done. Usually, the weather plays a huge factor in the possibility of sending the animals. Even fertile eggs can be shipped.
Shipping hedgehogs – but of course: Air freight prices typically run $139 to $169 through Pet Air………
Wow, coming back to this a year later is pretty cool, as I can now corey up my own question!
[flying pets corey] Some friends of mine adopted kittens from a brother halfway across the country. They were dropped off at the airport by the brother in a cat carrier and met at the airport here by my friend. She had to be there when the plane landed so that they wouldn’t just be sitting around in baggage claim or where ever. [/corey]
Seems to me the seller could solve both problems by giving the hedgehogs to his sister’s kids for Christmas.
(See above.)
Awwww man, I wish this was in my area, I’ve wanted a hedgehog for soooo long but my parents just let me get a cat instead. The only breeder I know of here sells for $200 each and there’s like a year-long waiting list haha
Movie titles and ideas:
How the Hedgehog Stole Christmas?
Wild Hogs (But about Hedgehogs..?)
Grandma Got Run Over by a Hedgehog
Horton Hears a Hedgehog
Hedgehog Potter…
Okay, I’m done. 🙂
Today, a day that will live in infamy, or possibly New Jersey, Tacomagic has yet again won the coveted Christmas Eve Punch. There will be a candlelight service following his induction.
Yay, another punch on my card. I don’t suppose you know how many that is now? Like 4?
How many is it again for the free coffee?
Sure, let’s go with 4. 8) It’s all virtual to me. I think you have to get the whole card punched to get anything free. But you’ll probably be the first one there!
Yay! A vague yet seemingly attainable goal. I’m gonna give it a double helping of effort :).
Hello? *tap, tap* Is this thing on? *
Guess everyone except for me has family and holiday stuff to take care of. *sniff*
One bright and sunshiney (or is it sunshine-y? A little help Isaac…) day I will be witty enough to get my card punched. The problem is my bi-polar snarkiness; I am clever some days and others, I can’t conjure anything. Oh well, Merry Christmas everyone.
Steve-O, someday the perfect post will come your way, and you will achieve your moment in the Don’t Suck box. 8) I just know it! Happy and Merry to you, too!
Just remember to read the other posts in the topic. Sometimes you can build on other peoples’ wit or they’ll inspire you to great snarkiness.
Parasitic Snarkiness would be an awesome band name.
I got the new Parasitic Snarkiness album on the collectible vinyl for Christmas!
… Having trouble uploading it, though …
Oh, they are such a rip-off of Snark Parasites <faux indignation>
It seems hedgehogs are somehow cheaper than puppies. I’ll take one!
When I was little, my dad and I made up a series of stories about a hedgehog family. Then one day I found a real hedgie outside our apartment building. I guess some idiot tried keeping it as a pet and got tired of it… :-/ I picked her up with an oven mitt, took her inside and fed her a bowl of milk. She lapped it up and proceeded to explore the table on which we set her to eat. She didn’t seem really scared, just kind of curious. There is a hilly/foresty area near our city and we took her there and let her go. But I don’t know what kind of person would take home a live animal and just let it go in the middle of a city. I think the poster was really irresponsible–she should have taken the baby hedgies to a shelter.
Heavens- my child is so spoiled and a bit prickly when having a temper-tantrum.
♫Please Christmas, don’t be late… leaving that is. ♫
Mary Beesmas, everyone. The smallest turkey I could find was still 9 lbs, so, dry turkey sammiches for everyone next week! Come and get ’em! Seriously, I think this year could have gone far worse than it did; I thank the stars and stuff that I found this little corner of (in)sanity when I did, and I would like to thank you all for your patience and understanding. Just think, my New Years post will make even less sense! OK! Time to see what the Lllamanun and the Ostrimu brung me! (BBUT)
We had a 24 pound turkey for 2 adults and a toddler. Yummm….
Oh you selfish, selfish animals! It’s Christmas – share that hedge you hogs…….
They went “Over The Hedge”. 8)
*hands out egg nog and champagne Punchity Punch Punch*
May your Beesmas be Mary and Bright! If anyone got a pony, I think it was supposed to be mine. 8)
“Dear Buddha,
Please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket.”
testing from my brand spanking new kindle very cool.
Cool! Download some Merry for us!
Merry Beesmas 2010! Made the turkey last night so we can have turkey sandwiches or hot turkey today. Biggun this year. We’re going to be in tryptophan overload. Also got a metric ton of gravy. Anybody need some?
Funny, but before I joined in the comments here I read the entire archives but don’t really remember this one. Still, it could be another chapter in the saga of Pickles and Winston.
I don’t have a turkey this year, but I love gravy! I got potatoes! Send it over! Happy and Merry, and such. Off to visit with family, and then home to watch birds destroying the toys I made for them last night!
Jingle bells, briny smells,
Hedgie laid a toot
It set afire our heart’s desire
We bought a bandicoot.
*shakes empty flask*
Christmas Hedgies
Christmas hedgehog’s tasty hedgehogs
Dressed in hollandaise sauce
In the oven
Till there’s a hint
of crispness
Children lunching
People crunching
Spitting spine after spine
And in every corner pet shop you’ll see
Hedgy sales hedgy sales
Christmas hedgehogs they’re so tasty
Dripping in heavy cream
Soon they will be my Christmas meal
Merry Beesmas everyone, dinner is on me!
P.S. I’m in the Christmas box!
I’m waiting for someone to unwrap me…
Let’s get Mikey. He’ll try anything.
Merry all! Have a wonderful day with family and friends.
I’m liking the trip to the past. It’s interesting to see regular commenters who have left us and the evolution of our inside jokes – no mention of Beesmas in last year’s comments, for instance.
I hope that everyone who had a holiday enjoyed it.
And to all those in the path of the coming blizzard/s, stay safe and warm!
I guess I scared everyone away…
I guess I’ll see you all tomorrow.
Even more so since I might be snowed in.
Wait, I want to send you a funny! Oh, I can post it on Facebook, I guess. 8)
Here’s the link:
http://www.geekosystem.com/christmas-tradition/
Chinese food on Christmas Eve is a tradition on my side of the family, so we ordered from our favorite Chinese place yesterday 🙂
I ain’t skeered… just a quiet night at home, and not a whole lot to say.
Chinese food is a New Year’s tradition on my wife’s side of the family. Specifically, going to a Chinese buffet, usually Mandarin. I think it stems from my father-in-law’s love of buffets, because he can pay one price and eat as much as he can — and he eats like a singularity.
Hammy, All is calm, All is bright, Round yon Punchity Punch Punch!
G’Night, Spiney Normandy!