The Dude looks curiously at the small, nattering animal.
DUDE Nice marmot.
The man with the string scoops up the marmot and tosses it, screaming, into the bathtub.
The Dude screams. The marmot splashes frantically, biting at the Dude in a frenzy of fearful aggression.
FIRST MAN Vee vant zat money, Lebowski.
The Dude, screaming, grabs the lip of the tub and starts to hoist himself up but the first man lays a palm on top of his head and squishes him back into the water.
SECOND MAN You think veer kidding und making mit de funny stuff?
Marmots do know how to enjoy life. Nothing to do but eat and sun on the rocks. My family and I just spent the last 2 weeks of June touring parks from Dinosaur National Monument to Glacier National Park. Lots of marmots to be seen laid out on the rocks.
The "marmot" in the Big Lebowski looked more like a ferret to me. Marmots, or groundhogs, are pretty smart, and can be quite friendly. I have a whole family living in my backyard, and they all recognize me. If someone else, even my wife, comes around, they scamper for their den, but they go about their business when I am working back there.
It's a hoary marmot, Marmota caligata. "Caligata" means (roughly) wearing small boots; cf the emperor Caligula (Little Boots); you can see in the photo at the link the brownish feet.
They live a mellow life under the harshest of conditions, and are therefore sometime thought to be the totemic animal of law professors.
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The Dude looks curiously at the small, nattering animal.
DUDE
Nice marmot.
The man with the string scoops up the marmot and tosses it, screaming, into the bathtub.
The Dude screams. The marmot splashes frantically, biting at the Dude in a frenzy of fearful aggression.
FIRST MAN
Vee vant zat money, Lebowski.
The Dude, screaming, grabs the lip of the tub and starts to hoist himself up but the first man lays a palm on top of his head and squishes him back into the water.
SECOND MAN
You think veer kidding und making
mit de funny stuff?
I'll bite. What is it?
Marmots do know how to enjoy life. Nothing to do but eat and sun on the rocks. My family and I just spent the last 2 weeks of June touring parks from Dinosaur National Monument to Glacier National Park. Lots of marmots to be seen laid out on the rocks.
The "marmot" in the Big Lebowski looked more like a ferret to me. Marmots, or groundhogs, are pretty smart, and can be quite friendly. I have a whole family living in my backyard, and they all recognize me. If someone else, even my wife, comes around, they scamper for their den, but they go about their business when I am working back there.
It looks like a young manbearpig to me. I am serial.
Does Nina ever stay home?
It's a hoary marmot, Marmota caligata. "Caligata" means (roughly) wearing small boots; cf the emperor Caligula (Little Boots); you can see in the photo at the link the brownish feet.
They live a mellow life under the harshest of conditions, and are therefore sometime thought to be the totemic animal of law professors.
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