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Giraffes? Giraffes!

2009.10.22

All excerpts below come from a very funny book, Giraffes? Giraffes! written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey. In it you will find “facts” about giraffes that I’m sure you’ve never learned anyplace else. It’s one of my favorites….hope you enjoy!!

"We are here to learn about giraffes, or GIRAFFES. Giraffes are animals sometimes known as aminals. A definition: Aminal (optional: animal): a being that walks or flies and eats food. Aminals usually inhabit the Earth, roaming and looking at this or that and chewing cud or gum, but can sometimes inhabit your body cavities where it is dark." -Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

"Giraffes first came to this planet nearly five-hundred thousand years ago, on a conveyor belt. No one is sure where the conveyor belt came from, because the pieces of the conveyor belt recovered for scientific study – in 1973, in Middleton, New Jersey, by Arni Arnarsson, originally from Iceland – are being hidden from the authors, Dr. and Mr. Haggis-On-Whey, by governmental stooges."
-Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

"The legs of giraffes are filled with various types of fruit juice. You see, giraffes love drinking fruit juices – pineapple, boysenberry, mango-lemon – but their bodies have no real use for fruit juice, so it all trickles down to their legs where it stays and squishes around. This should have been obvious to you." -Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

"The hooves of giraffes are fashioned with a super-strong lightweight titanium alloy. That’s what makes their hooves so fierce-looking yet soothing at the same time. You know what else is fierce-looking but also soothing? Soap." -Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

"Giraffes love to dance, and consider themselves expert. There are many competitions regionally and internationally, and many spectators attend, though giraffe-spectators can be very demanding and unforgiving audiences. For giraffes, dancing is a very serious business devoid of any fun or innuendo." -Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

"Did you Know?
-That giraffes won’t drink milk through a straw (unless you ask them to, while wearing a hockey mask)?
- That when giraffes see campfires, they laugh hysterically? "
-Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

"Did you also know?
- That giraffes love to eat iced oatmeal cookies, but will only do so if they have been left out on the counter for two days, thus making them chewy? Yes, I guess you already knew this.
- That giraffes invented plastic? No, not plastic – latex. My bad. Still, though, isn’t that amazing?"
--Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

Haggis-On-Whey, Dr. and Mr. Doris, Giraffes? Giraffes!
Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's
Giraffe Cam

57 Comments

Hahaha, great post and pictures Marsha :-)

tedbarlow · 2009-10-22: 12:52

BRAVO!

JaCkYe · 2009-10-22: 12:56

Funny!
#7 - i like it that!

BogdanTelea · 2009-10-22: 13:18

Beautiful! Love them all even the last one is so great.

SunFlower1990 · 2009-10-22: 13:33

the giraffe's tongue make me scared lol :)
wonderful shots!
and the info is so brilliant!
those facts are so true! :)

onlyricky · 2009-10-22: 13:51

Super set! These giraffes are awesome. Last one is cool.

dontblink · 2009-10-22: 14:21

Oh wow, these are awesome shots!!!
great post!!!

jennye · 2009-10-22: 14:39

Creative,excellent set!!

somogyvari · 2009-10-22: 15:06

Wonderful post, Marsha.
I love giraffes.They're so cute!

nunuinpictures · 2009-10-22: 15:09

Beautiful creatures. Love the last two. I also like the commentary a lot. =)

smbunation · 2009-10-22: 15:19

Amazing shots Marsha! So fantastic faces of your model! Love it.

JumiElla · 2009-10-22: 16:02

Brilliant post !!! and wonderful shots !!

finbarr · 2009-10-22: 16:44

nice.., u know giraffes are one of those animals who pose a lot, they look at the camera, roll their tongue out, but yeah, they smell awful! nice set!

soubhagya · 2009-10-22: 17:18

What great shots, you definitely got me laughing!

DancingDolphin · 2009-10-22: 17:31

Marsha A special shots. Yupiiii

LysMandala · 2009-10-22: 18:00

I like the velvety hairs shown close up. Would lik to touch its nose.

BuffyEyes · 2009-10-22: 18:56

thanks Marsha for such a lovely and humorous post...I wonder how long it took for you to compile this whole set. It's so hard to choose a favorite, all of them are great...:)

bedazzled · 2009-10-22: 19:02

wonder set Marshha ... I love #1 and #4

CaseyLynn · 2009-10-22: 20:52

INCREDIBLE MARSHA!!! This set is FANTASTIC and FUNNY...#1 great angle...#2 super editing...#3 I'm still laughing...#7 very original...#8 perfect timing. BRAVO my friend :))

lynnsgallery2 · 2009-10-22: 21:37