This little pupster is a man of many voices. Speakers up for this one!
“Bruce (a Boston Terrier) is a silly dog and he makes silly noises. He loves other animals and this is how he acts when he sees one, but can’t go play with it,” says YouTuber MorbidAngela.
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Johnson, my three o’clock is running a little long. If you wouldn’t mind waiting in the lobby, that’d be great, thanks.”
All right, ma’am, we’re going to merge onto the sidewalk, so remember your turn signal… Uh, you missed the turn back there, but it’s okay, we can cut through this hardware store… Now, in about 500 feet, there’s a ravine, but I think we can jump it if you hit the gas now…
Via lelice on Reddit.
Hopefully you got a chance to see our YAY It’s Friday Feature with Martin “Marty” Mouse, who is now our Official Favorite Ratso Ever. Over the weekend, we interviewed Marty to find out how he got to be the life of the party.
Marty, thanks for taking time to chat. We know with all your social media accounts, you’re a busy fella. Anyway- you just took the Yogie Bucket Challenge. How’d that go?
I’d often dreamed of it waining yogies, and den one day it did! I scooped up all I could and took dem to my hidey hole.
Ah, I see. OK, moving on- U were rescued from a pet store. What was that like?
I was living at the PetSmart® #1314, and dey were weally nice to me and took good care ob me, but I was dere a long time and I got bored. All my brothers and sisters got adopted. When my mom came by, I saw her and said “Hey! You, take me home!” So she did, and my life is awesome. I hab my berry own office building dat goes wiff me from da office where me and mom work all day, then to the bedroom at night for sleeping. I do internashunal bizness, I have a band called Marty & the Corms, I hab an adbice column called “Deer Marty” and I love snuggles wiff my mom and dad.
And now it’s Life In The Fast Lane- Facebook, Twitter, Cute Overload. We saw a rumor on Twitter that you met Beyoncé. True?
Um, no. I did win an Oscar® last year and met lots of famouse peoples, but Beyoncé was not dere.
Hab, er, HAVE you been in touch with Lil’ Bub or Grumpy Cat or Maru- you know, how to deal with the fame?
No.
How about a book deal? Anything there yet? Movies?
I do hab a book in the works, with illustrator Nadya Slenders. I hab a line of pillows with artist Steph Laberis, and I hab my own line of shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads and stuff.
We see you aren’t shy about, well, stuffing your face. Favorite snack is…..?
Dat is berry hard question! I love corms and yogies best I fink. Although Milano cookies make me weally happy! But I only get little tiny tastes ob good stuff like dat.
Any final words for your C.O. fans?
Important bizness adbice….it’s berry important to remember to balance your diribitibs and your interest ratios wiffout forgetting to dibest your forfeitures wiff taxashuns. Split your stocks and inbest your monies wiff smarts. P.S. I don’t like Mondays.
[*Note: If you are considering getting a rat, please know that rats are very social animals and only do well in pairs or groups. It is a rare case for a rat to prefer to be a lone rat, like Marty and his hoomins are with him ALL day. So if you are considering a rat adoption, please consider getting two or more and double your fun! We want all rats to be happy and healthy!” -Marty’s Hoomin.
We’ve got another pair of 2015 Cute Overload Calendars to give away!
All ya gotta do is crank out a terrific headline for the Bebeh Monkeh photo shown below. At 2pm PT, we’ll update this post with the winner!
UPDATE: And today’s winner is Mer! Congratulations!
Good question. Today is as good a day as any to Go Polling!
Well, you improvise, of course.
(“Hello Cute Overload! Molly Moo wants to say thank you for sharing her previous videos by sending you this photo. She absolutely wubs the sun!” -Molly’s Mummy & Daddy.
(I work in a flower delivery company call center, in customer service. We take orders and send them out to local floral shops all over the country. I’m working in ‘order modification.’)
Me: “Thank you for calling. This is [My Name] speaking. Can I start by getting your name?”
Customer: “My name? Why do you need that?”
Me: “I need to identify who is calling and how to address you, but that’s okay. Can I have your recipient’s name?”
Customer: “Recipipant? What’s a recipipant?”
Me: “Well, ma’am, the RECIPIENT is who is getting the flowers. May I have their name?”
Customer: “Well… I don’t know what a recipient is but the delivery getter’s name is [Recipient]. I need you to change my order. I need you to change my name to spell it the correct way.”
Me: “Ma’am, I was able to find your order by the recipient’s name. I can change your spelling of your name for you. Can you tell me the correct spelling?”
Customer: “No. I will not tell you. You have no right to ask me things this personal. You can fix it yourself. Goodbye.” *hangs up*
Supervisor: “I didn’t know you were so intrusive and psychic. How do you get all the crazies?”
Be the life of the party with the CuteCo Doggie Disguise Kit!
Clyde, from Trebz. That is all.
by Miguel
A lot of C.O. readers have kids who went back to school starting yesterday- or even a couple of weeks before that. These puppehs are off to school too!
From Susan M.
She’s a Chocolate Shar Pei named……ready?
Princess Potato from the Kingdom of Tater Tots.
We all know typical cat behavior: they ignore you and do what they want. Sometimes, though- they have some new type of behavior hidden up their paw sleeve.
Cats can be tricky like that.
Take this first video for example. A perfectly done O…M…G.
Then this kitteh displays a total mastery of every door lock in and outside his living space.
And finally, imagine your embarrassment when you bark like a dog at someone- get busted- and have to switch back to “Meow Mode.”
Morris the Japanese Spitz has had JUST about enough of that little tire, thank you very much!
Even more MO:
DP&F.
meanwhile in russia…
In the late 19th century, shortly after the patent of the telephone, the race was on to connect everyone to the phone grid. However, due to technical limitations of the earliest phone lines, every telephone required its own physical line strung between a house or business to a phone exchange where the call was manually connected by a live operator. The somewhat quixotic result of so many individual lines was the construction of elaborate and unsightly towers that carried hundreds to thousands of phone lines through the air.
In Stockholm, Sweden, the central telephone exchange was the Telefontornet, a giant tower designed around 1890 that connected some 5,000 lines which sprawled in every direction across the city. Just by looking at historical photos it’s easy to recognize the absurdity and danger of the whole endeavor, especially during the winter months. Everything that could possibly go wrong did. From high winds to ice storms and fires, the network was extremely vulnerable to the elements. Luckily, phone networks evolved so rapidly that by 1913 the Telefontornet was completely decommissioned in favor of much simpler technology. The remaining shell stood as a landmark until it too caught fire in 1953 and was torn down.
If you want to see more, the Tekniska Museet (the Museum of Technology) in Stochkholm has hundreds of photos from this strange period over on Flickr organized into four main galleries: Linjeras och eldsvådor (accidents), Telefonstationer Stockholm, telephone stations in other parts of Sweden, and the Telefontornet.
(via Retronaut, Twisted Sifter, thnx Johnny!)
