Something funny for money/something funny for no money
Hello.
So, Red Nose Day is afoot. I’m still on the other side of the world but by all accounts, almost everyone back home is in the process of Doing Something Funny For Money. To judge from Twitter there is virtually no activity going on which is anything OTHER than funny. I fear for our core national industries, which might suffer if too many people are in clown shoes. Among many, notable blog reader Sam Schafer and his Portsmouth Comedy Society are doing an interactive play at www.justgiving.com/handrelief. Handrelief sounds like – yes I know, but it’s not. So, yes, support that. But also support everything else. I mean it really is quite overwhelming. Is there anyone left to donate who’s not engaged in funniness?
Well, yes – me. ‘Doing something funny for money’ is too much like my regular life, so I’m going to do my bit by studiedly NOT doing a damn thing that’s funny (though I am still on sale on ebay for what is now the princely sum of £310). I’m going to go to bed and basically miss all of Red Nose Day. But I do want to donate. So, all right, here’s what we’ll do. Leave a Comment on this blog that’s to do with rabbits or hares. It can be a fact or opinion or really anything rabbit/hare-based. For every such Comment I will donate £2 to Comic Relief. I’ll be donating anyway I expect, but this is a chance to influence my munificence. But you see I’m reluctant just to say ‘I’ll donate two quid per Comment’ because then it looks like I’m doing it for attention/self-publicity. So the rabbit/hare rule just keeps us all honest. I shall wake up in about eight hours and see how we’ve done. Then probably close the books this time tomorrow and make the donation online.
(No reason why it’s rabbits/hares by the way. But I do feel I could afford to know more about them.)
And just in case you’re thinking ‘look, I’m supporting charity left right and centre here, I’d like something not quite so worthy to do at the same time’: a group of the never-idle followers of this blog have made a panel show on Skype. You heard. Why not? We can make cakes and pass an iPod round the country. Now a panel show. It’s about the future. It’s quite long but worth listening to, you’ll find. Here it is. http://ttttg.blogspot.com/
I’ll also give someone a prize for the best rabbit/hare remark. Claimable at one of my shows.
A real mixture of the charitable and the frivolous, today. Good.
Posted by Cathy (traineeflorist) on March 19, 2011
sorry Mark I missed this rabbit/hare thing so too late for it to affect your donation sum but I felt I must add that a rabbit’s tail is apparently called a fud. I found this out recently when I beat my husband at Scrabble with this word which I didn’t even know the meaning of but hey, who cares when it’s all you’ve got left to put on a triple word score
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Well done once again for your kindness to others, even when you are asleep you are being charitable, that’s quite a feat x
Posted by Meg on March 19, 2011
Rabbits can have quiffs. At least, my rabbit can. I think it’s because of a salty thing we put on the side of her hutch and somehow some of it got stuck to her head and made her fur all stiff. So it looks like a quiff.
Posted by ediecott on March 19, 2011
http://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?b=22&tnr=21&p=chas+and+dave&vid=0001534189794&dt=&l=149&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fyts.video.search.yahoo.com%2Fimage%2F1fd716e21&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2FIlzSU5HSXbE%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1&tit=chas+and++dave+-++rabbit&sigr=11f3daf4a&newfp=1&surl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIlzSU5HSXbE&sigs=11au92irg
Posted by Josh (the magnificent one) on March 19, 2011
Also, Rabbits.
(See how I nobly sacrifice my chances of winning the prize for best leporine comment for the good of the poor starving children)
Posted by Lauren on March 19, 2011
When I was 4 I was convinced I’d seen the Easter Bunny during the night, and every time an adult asked me if I was sure, I always told them that I had definitely seen him.
It wasn’t until a few years later that I realised no, no I didn’t see the Easter Bunny.
Posted by Paul on March 19, 2011
Lets get a few jokes in the mix(amatosis). That was a bit of a bad bun. Look at me rabbit on… these hare brained schemes… most of these jokes are flops(y)
Posted by Ally on March 19, 2011
So many comments!
One of my favourite books is Watership Down, which is entirely about rabbits and includes a made-up rabbit religion. It’s quite detailed, hence why I love it
Posted by issey on March 19, 2011
A rabbit in Icelandic is called a kanina and in Turkish it is called a tavsan. Not sure how I know that. Interesting.
Posted by Lisa D on March 19, 2011
We had a large population of wild rabbits that hung out around the library of my university, nowhere else on campus just at the library. I suspect this relates to an understanding among the rabbit population that it is the spot on campus with the smallest population of students. I found it rather cool and a nice bit of wildlife in an otherwise fairly hideous urban state school environment. Nevertheless, it was while hanging out in the library during a severe thunderstorm when I discovered my fact about rabbits: when terrified they don’t freeze and go quiet; they scream. It’s a horrible blood-curdling scream that sounds like a child being tortured and will give you nightmares for at least a week. The rest of the time they are quite sweet and will do all manner of adorable things when presented with a bit of lettuce.
Posted by Joelle on March 19, 2011
Luckily, we’ve just learnt about rabbits as a pest in Australia in biology! Commenting on this blog to give money to charity also doubles as study it seems.
From just 1 breeding pair, in 18 months it was recorded that the population just form that couple was 184. Because of their ability to reproduce so quickly they took over lots of the habitats and resources that our native wildlife needed so people used to make a living from killing the rabbits and handing the pelts to the council or whatever the equivalent was back then.
Not really a fact just an interesting remark on that lesson. We had to guess what animal had bred that quickly. She said “They must breed like buggery for that to happen.” I’m guessing she doesn’t know what bugger means. If there was any form of buggery happening population wouldn’t be increasing so fast. Silly teacher.
I do hope you slept well though. I had a lovely sleep last night and had a nice dream. I never dream so that was pleasing.
I loved your spot on Adam Hills’ new show by the way, very well done.
Have a nice day (:
Posted by Al on March 19, 2011
Wow – loads of comments on here, bet you weren’t expecting so many! It’s amazing how much people can rabbit on when it’s for charity, and I imagine the £112 you now have to cough up will be somewhat hare-raising.
Posted by Sophie on March 19, 2011
I find rabbits generally cute. Maybe not the huge German ones, but ones with little sticky up ears are adorable. My best friend when I was little had two rabbits that chewed on cardboard. I don’t think I could bring myself to eat one. And here I am rambling about rabbits for Comic Relief. I suppose you could say rabbiting on. Anywhom I have rambled enough.
Posted by Declan on March 19, 2011
The name for a baby rabbit is a ‘Kit’.
If you name your next child ‘Cub’ I’m going to grow suspicious
Posted by Aislinn on March 19, 2011
I have a girl rabbit called Dougal.
Posted by Daniel on March 19, 2011
According to one of favourite films ever, the only thing that can kill the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. I have seen this both on film and on stage so it must be true.
Posted by Nathan on March 19, 2011
The English call them “rabbits”. The French call them “lapins”. The Germans are indifferent to the entire concept.
Posted by Helen on March 18, 2011
Rabbits can be witnessed from the windows of my house. When people come round they often exclaim: ‘Ooh you’ve got rabbits!’ and I will say: ‘Yes! We have rabbits.’ On a good day we do not talk about the rabbits anymore after that.
Posted by Tibbs on March 18, 2011
I do not have any interesting facts about rabbits (other than the ones I have just learned from these comments). However, I do have this awesome picture to share. It is one of my favourite pictures of all the pictures that exist:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/eldritch_flame/other/08.jpg?t=1300492144
I am very excited about TTTTG; I’ve got it on my flash drive and I’m going to listen to it when I get home. I’m sure it’ll be aces!
Posted by Emma on March 18, 2011
Also, rabbits can make sounds, one of mine once growled at me when it got into the house and was hiding under a chair.
Posted by Emma on March 18, 2011
I’ve had a lot of rabbits in my life, they kept having babies and we sold them.
Also, big up to the Portsmouth mention, we’ll put it as a podcast on Pure FM asap for anyone who missed it.
Thanks
Posted by Allie on March 18, 2011
Before 1859 there were no rabbits in Australia! An Australian farmer named Thomas Austin introduced just 24 rabbits on to his land for hunting. In less than 6 years there were more than 22 million!!!
He can’t have been very good at hunting I take it
Also in the 1930′s female rabbits were used to detect pregnancy in humans by being injected with womens urine. If the rabbits ovaries responded to the urine, then the woman was pregnant. Apparently it was very accurate!
Posted by Will on March 18, 2011
Ahem.
There was a hare that hated a rabbit,
He often attempted to stab it,
He sent it some faeces,
Hate between species,
Leporids should never cohabit.
Posted by Alex on March 18, 2011
@cathy I WAS DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER ON A STAGE PRODUCTION OF HARVEY TWO YEARS AGO! It was… weird. Fun though. It taught me my trade, in a way.
Posted by MusicalLottie on March 18, 2011
The full name for baby rabbits is ‘kittens’.
Rabbits eat their own excrement to gain the nutrition that wasn’t absorbed the first time around, then the second time, until the third time when the droppings are literally just crumbly, dried grass powder. They can tell which droppings are which (1st, 2nd, 3rd time). So if you sit on the dried crumbly ones you’re fine!
Where I used to work all of our rabbits ended up escaping, but stayed around the farm and bred. So we had various-coloured wild rabbits – when *actual* wild rabbits are just grey – running around that none of the kids could pet. It was quite fun actually! Although I did come across one that had mixy, which was really sad
Thankfully none of the kids saw it.
On a happier note, they’re really cute. We also had two guinea pigs that one of the instructors used to tell the children were stunt guinea pigs in G-Force – and they believed him!
Posted by Natalie-Helen on March 18, 2011
It is the middle of March,
I know this as a fact,
Because in fields across the country,
Hares don’t know how to act.
They’re tearing up the furrows,
And hurtling through the wheat.
I’m not sure why they do it.
Perhaps they are in heat.
They spring high into the air,
And land with a thump.
They box each other with their paws,
each one landing with a bump.
Perhaps then they settle down,
To tea and cake with Alice,
They seem to get over it,
There’s never any malice.
So if in spring,
You bound along without a care
Perhaps you are one quarter
Mad March Hare.
This is my contribution to the rabbit/hare donations thing.
^_^
xxx
Posted by Beth (Bloomability) on March 18, 2011
I’ve found a couple of facts:
-Rabbits are not rodents, they are lagomorphs.
-Rabbits can purr similar to a cat.
A purring rabbit?
Posted by Thank you! « Hand Relief on March 18, 2011
[...] To all of you who tuned in and spread the word thank you. Especially to Mr Mark Watson who unprompted mentioned on his very lovely blog. [...]
Posted by MargaretL on March 18, 2011
I did my little list of famous rabbits ( see below) and thought I was doing well and just checked online to see that there is a full Wikipedia page devoted to Famous Fictional Hares and Rabbits, containing dozens and dozens!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_hares_and_rabbits
Imagine forgetting Miffy………..
Posted by MargaretL on March 18, 2011
I’ve never had a pet rabbit so I’ve no Margxemplem, example from my own life, other than to say that a few years ago, around Eastertime, I did see two hares on a hillside “boxing” , so the saying “mad as a March hare” is accurate!
I’ve been trying to compile a list of famous rabbits and so far I’ve got
Benjamin Bunny, Bugs Bunny,Peter Rabbit, Roger Rabbit,”Rabbit” from Winnie the Poo,White Rabbit, Brer Rabbit, Harvey and my favourite of them all,Thumper. There is Bucky O’Hare too but I can’t remember if he’s a rabbit or a hare…..??
Posted by Anji on March 18, 2011
Reading thru all of these has made me want to watch, who framed Roger rabbit, and Bambi. I don’t think that’s the best idea ever, but I thought I’d share it anyways.
Posted by lisan66 on March 18, 2011
Oh, and in Fota Wildlife Park in Cork, they attatch rabbits to zip wires and have cheetahs run after them to show people how fast they really are. It’s kinda cruel, and if you’re ever there with kids, I wouldn’t let them watch if they have a pet rabbit
Posted by hornseygirl on March 18, 2011
One of my favourite books, as a child, was ‘Masquerade’ by Kit Williams, which featured a golden hare. I’ve not thought about it in a long time; lovely for this Blog to trigger the memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)
FACT: Whilst hares are born above ground with their eyes open and their bodies fully furred; rabbits are born underground in burrows, blind and hairless.
Posted by lisan66 on March 18, 2011
I was walking home last Friday night/Saturday morning and at the top of my estate, there’s two fields as you walk in. And there were rabbits everywhere, I mean everywhere. The two fields were awash with rabbits. And then I wasn’t too sure the next morning if it was a dream or not, but I told my mam, who’s lived in my estate since she was one, and she was like yeah, the rabbits are always there, I see them about four times a week during the day. This kind of amazed me, because I’ve been living here almost nineteen years and have no recollection of ever seeing a rabbit.
Posted by Lukey on March 18, 2011
Rabbits are cute
Posted by Julie on March 18, 2011
A liitle animation of a hare which my daughter created yesterday in preparation for her uni interview. It’s really pretty so watch it
http://fruube.tumblr.com/post/3941843042/hoppyness
Posted by Nat on March 18, 2011
Rabbits are not rodents, but belong to their own order called lagomorphs. There was an evolutionary split between rabbits and other living mammals, which probably occurred about thirty million years ago. (shamelessly stolen from the internet)
Posted by Dawn on March 18, 2011
I tried to leave a comment about baby rabbits but when I pressed “submit
comment” it said Duplicate comment!
I have honestly never said this comment before!
Posted by Dawn on March 18, 2011
I have a lovely memory of baby rabbits!
In 1988, on 4th July I was on the labour ward at the local Maternity Hospital. As the labour progressed I began to pace the room (attached to the gas and air machine). I was on the sixth floor and as I looked out of the window I was amazed to see below me, hundreds of baby rabbits:-)
Concentrating on those rabbits helped to get me through the 10 hours labour till I gave birth to Liam:-)
Posted by Catherine aka Cathy on March 18, 2011
Have you ever seen a movie called “Harvey.” It’s about an invisible 6 foot, 3 1/2 inch white rabbit. It came out in 1950 and starred James Stewart. James Stewart’s character was Elwood P. Dowd. (I always liked the way it sounded.) He was the only one who could see Harvey. His whole family thinks he’s nuts. He is a bit of a drunk, but apparently Harvey is real because the psychiatrist where they send Elwood also starts to see Harvey. Harvey is a Pooka. It has something to do with Celtic Folklore.
Here is a portrait of Elwood and Harvey. Evidently someone else can see Harvey, too.
http://www.argosybookshop.com/images/HARVEY.jpg
Posted by Laurs on March 18, 2011
From some of the comments I read, I see people have generally have fond comments of rabbits. I on the other hand, have a slightly different viewpoint. I’ve never really come in to contact with a live rabbit, but I marked KS3 SATS exams a couple of years ago and one of the questions asked for the students to write about the point of view of a white mountain hare. After marking almost 2000 exam papers, I really really despise hares, and every time I see one mentioned, it makes me want to cry.
Posted by DeborahF on March 18, 2011
By sheer coincidence I happened to see a lovely rabbit sat at the side of the railway track on my commute to work this morning. It didn’t seem to be frightened despite a huge train trundling past it as it slowed to wait for its platform to come free at Sheffield station. It just carried on chewing at the grass/weeds at the side of the track. So that’s my rabbit story.
I can give you a fact about hares as well. When you see two ‘mad march’ hares boxing in a field it isn’t, as is commonly thought, two male hares fighting for territory – it is in fact a female hare trying to get rid of an amorous male hare.
Posted by Emily on March 18, 2011
I once had a staring competition with a hare that lasted for about 30 seconds. I think the genus is Lepus (A level biology has to come in somewhere), and some types have fur on the bottom of their feet.
Vague and possibly incorrect, but “facts”.
Posted by Corey on March 18, 2011
Rabbit Comment 1: Its not really a fact but my friend Emma inherited a cocky rabbit who took the mantel of ”head animal” from her staffordshire bull terrier despite people telling her you can’t pair rabbits with dogs. Anyway the rabbit Max became very ill and their vet advised them to put him down asap as there was no cure for what he had. Not accepting this Emma did some research on the condition Max was suffering from (known as head tilt) and nursed him back to full fitness. Now he has a slight tilt to his head (hence the name) but is back as cocky as before.
Rabbit comment 2: My Grandad once ran over my Mum’s rabbits tail when putting his car in the garage. He came in the house holding ”Bunty” (the name of the rabbit not the magazine) which he handed to her, then gave my Mum his tail saying she should keep it as a momento!?
Posted by Claire on March 18, 2011
Rabbit on Winnie the Pooh gives a bad impression of all rabbits by being so uptight and bossy. In reality, rabbits are considerate, thoughtful creatures who help to build schools, hospitals, Olympic stadiums in the middle of the night and do good stuff, like that.
I have a lilac rabbit who wears a lilac bow around his neck and rarely moves and a much smaller pink one just like that. I’m not sure if they are real rabbits at all…
I also have a Winnie the Pooh soft toy who wears a bunny ears headband, whom I like to call ‘Rabbit Pooh’.
Finally, Nesquik looks like rabbit poo and the rabbit on the front of the box is called Quicky, which seems inappropriate for a children’s cereal.
Posted by Anji on March 18, 2011
I had a pet rabbit called Flopsy, he mothered my pet guinea pigs! He was lovely.
My friend now has a lovely chocolate velvet rabbit, who has huge balls!! And my dog loves to bark at him and the rabbit just sits and looks at her twitching his little rabbit nose and takes no notice!
I quite like rabbits.
Posted by Hannah Mae on March 18, 2011
Apparently, a baby rabbit is called a kit. Which is quite cute. If you were a more sickening parent you could now spend time coming up with various nauseating rabbit-related nicknames for your son. Don’t, though.
Thank you for the TTTTG plug! I had lots of fun doing it. I mostly just turned up and laughed, to be honest (and barely that, since it was done via Skype) but it’s such a well written and executed show that it deserves a league of ardent fans.
Posted by Amy B on March 18, 2011
Well, I went on this nightspotting safari type thing the other night, and the man was talking about how you can tell the difference between all the different animals by the colour their eyes glow when light hits them. I was going to amaze you with my rabbit knowledge by telling you the colour they glow, but all I can really remember for certain is that sheep are blue and kangaroos are red. Pretty sure rabbits are red too, but don’t quote me on it. So not so much a fact there as a poorly formed memory. Still, better than nothing.
I used to have a rabbit. We just let her run around the garden and she dug a hole under the side of the garage. And she once escaped and managed to get across the road behind our house and into someone else’s garden. Admittedly a very quiet road that very few cars go down, but still impressive for a Netherland Dwarf if you ask me.
That’s really more like 2 rabbit comments. Does that mean a £4 donation?
ALSO (Unrelated to rabbits/hares) If you’ve got a minute- I’m going to Melbourne soon, and since you love it there, I would very much appreciate a few tips on things to see in the daytime. Also Sydney actually. I’m going to both on my own and with pretty much no plans apart from comedy in the evening. I’m likely to just end up sitting in a hostel feeling overwhelmed. Any suggestions would be a massive help.
Posted by ChrisP on March 18, 2011
I’ve never had a pet hare.
I had a couple of rabbits once. Then I came back from holiday and I had lots of rabbits.
Posted by Phill on March 18, 2011
At my old university (Essex Uni) there were hundreds of rabbits. Still are, probably. One night my flatmate and a friend of his got drunk and chased one rabbit around campus for about an hour. That pretty much exhausts my rabbit / hare related knowledge today!
Posted by Sarah on March 18, 2011
We used to look after a friends rabbit called Misty. She became best mates with my old dog Jed. They used to lie next to each other and fall asleep in the sun (between the wire of the run, the dog may have been kidding us and waiting for his chance to go in for the kill). Jed also used to lick Misty through the wire and when she used to have her mad couple of minutes tearing round the run he used to jump on top of the run barking and spinning on the spot as if to join in the excitment. When she was shut in her hutch he used to get very concerned and circle the run for ages. The cutest thing was when they had a Lady and the Tramp moment, they were both munching on a carrot through the bars of her run and ended up nose to nose.
They were so sweet with each other, Misty broke his little heart when she went home after 2 weeks
Posted by h2osarah on March 18, 2011
The rabbits in my backyard have been eating what remains of the brussel sprout plants all winter. Fun fact.
Posted by sephy on March 18, 2011
hares can reach a top speed of 45mph.
Posted by Rachel/Pandora on March 18, 2011
So, rabbits. This is Aslan – http://twitpic.com/4aq3qv
He was a dwarf lionhead rabbit (which explains the name) and was the best thing ever. He used to run laps of the armchair in our living room, and let the guinea-pig who shared his hutch sit on his head. He also liked sitting on your shoulder and investigating your ear.
Rabbits are cool.
Posted by Megan on March 18, 2011
Just listened to TTTG. Well done, all (including Misha, whom I forgot to congratulate on Twitter).
Selfish(-ish) reminder: I want to do a Very Late Review round up (the 10th!) in the next week or so. If you want to participate, please have a gander here
http://www.markwatsonthecomedian.com/web/2011/01/31/the-very-late-review-9/
and leave a helpful comment. Thank you!
Posted by Andrew on March 18, 2011
I’ve eaten a rabbit, but I’ve never eaten a hare.
Posted by Katy on March 18, 2011
Ive never had a pet rabbit, we had hamsters when we were little which we kept in fish tanks. No I dont know either.
However my dads nextdoor neighbour had a rabbit last year which was very cute but quite often escaped. My dad tried to capture it (despite hating his neighbours) when it escaped one time and his trousers fell down as he was chasing after it down the street. Then he fell over and hurt his wrist. And I laughed.
Posted by cymruangel on March 18, 2011
Talk of rabbits reminds me of the “You Make Bunny Cry” picture:
http://tinyurl.com/67on7gp
Although obviously in this instance, they would be tears of joy at your generosity and general loveliness.
Wikipedia also kindly informs me that “Rabbits are clearly distinguished from hares in that rabbits are altricial, having young that are born blind and hairless.”
Posted by Nuala on March 18, 2011
Rabbit fact: they are delicious! I haven’t tried hare though.
Posted by Katherine on March 18, 2011
Watership Down is quite a depressing movie. That has rabbits in it (and maybe hares). Never read the book though and it’s been a very, very long time since I watched the film, but that’s my opinion to add to the discussion.
Posted by Rachael on March 18, 2011
When I was on the train the other day I thought I saw a deer in the middle of a field but it turned out to be a MASSIVE hare.
People often think that my PJ and Duncan are hares because they have big ears and like to spring about but I’m pretty sure they are in fact rabbits.
Posted by Ingrid on March 18, 2011
I own a rabbit, and i can make him go into a sort of ‘sleepy trance’ by lying him on his back and blowing on his nose. He stays like this till you want to wake him up by simply turning him over!
Posted by Sue (DiB) on March 18, 2011
Thanks to Someone, I now have that Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit song by Chas n Dave in my head.
Posted by Someone on March 18, 2011
I once tried to do an impression of a RABBIT. The spontaneous sound-effect I decided would only aid the performance came out as “RABBIT, RABBIT, RABBIT”. I remembered, too late, that my RABBIT at the time never actually said much at all; silent if anything, she was. As we all know (now), ‘RABBIT’ is in actual fact the famed repetitive lyric of a frog’s favourite popsong. So my two-fold fact would be that frogs are really quite fond of RABBITS, and I can impersonate nothing if not a frog.
Posted by Misha on March 18, 2011
TTTTG is good fun, I enjoyed playing producer.
Rabbit fact: Rabbits often eat the own poo to redigest the minerals etc.
Hares are much larger than rabbits.
There are rabbits living on the roundabout at Birmingham Airport, they make me smile every time I go past.
Posted by EmT on March 18, 2011
I once got a rabbit for my birthday (It’s my birthday today, but I did not get a rabbit, although it is only ten to four. Fingers crossed.). He was an Albino called Alby – yep. Not long after that joyous birthday he was eaten by a fox. Hopefully none of today’s presents will suffer a similar fate.
Posted by Megan on March 18, 2011
I had a rabbit named Yggy. She could play the keyboards.
Rather, she had a knack for jumping at/on our Casio keyboard and hitting the ‘demo’ button, causing a cacophony of crap electro-’pop’ to spew out.
Posted by Beth on March 18, 2011
Rabbits are excellent. There are loads all along the A329 and my ex-boyfriend used to scare the shit out of me when driving me home as he used to yell “BUNNY” really loudly everytime he spotted on.
This eventually turned into “Bunnywatch” and points were scored for each bunny spotted. Ace.
So not only are rabbits cute, fluffy, fun pets and apparently can’t be sick (!- amazing fact Zoe!) they are also an excellent way to beat boredom in car journeys.
Screw I-Spy, Bunnywatch is where it’s AT.
Posted by alot of rachels on March 18, 2011
rabbits can see behind themselves without turning around. the word rabbit also has 2 b’s in it. facts.
Posted by Sue (DiB) on March 18, 2011
I grew up in the UK and I had a rabbit when I was young, it was a soft and fluffy grey chinchilla. His name was Benjy and he lived in a hutch in our back garden.
I think you have to have a special license or something to have a rabbit in Queensland, because of their tendency to escape and breed like… well you know. They devastate the crops here and cause all sorts of havoc to our native animals habitat, so they are classed as pests. I have seen wild hares here, at least I think they were hares, they moved pretty fast so it was hard to tell. Benjy certainly didn’t move like that, I remember him as a big, fat rabbit.
The only other thing I recall about rabbits is their taste. I vaguely remember eating rabbit as a kid (not Benjy).
Posted by Josh (the magnificent one) on March 18, 2011
Also, hares.
Posted by Josh (the magnificent one) on March 18, 2011
Rabbits really enjoy listening to TTTTG
(see what I did there, I combined a plug for Mark’s plug with a thing abour rabbits)
Rabbits.
Posted by Zoe Fell on March 18, 2011
Here is a fact about rabbits: Rabbits do not have a gag reflex, meaning they can’t be sick. So there.
(Also: Thank you for promoting TTTTG, Mark – that’s very lovely of you. We had a lot of fun doing it and we hope everyone enjoys it.)
Posted by Alex on March 18, 2011
I’ve only ever seen a hare once. It was under our mobile home on a campsite in Auvergne in France. I was quite cool.
I’ve seen loads of rabbits though. Some of them are quite cute but the ones of the children’s farm that I worked on were mostly mental and now I bear scars (acutal, physical, scars rathers than emotional ones).
I’ve just remembered quite a good story about a rabbit from the farm but I won’t tell it here in case people are squeamish. It was really really disgusting.