Althouse: Turtles!

April 11, 2008

Turtles!

In the Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

16 comments:

Trooper York said...: Cool, I knew you would find great pictures there. I can't wait to see the cherry blossom pics.; 4/11/08, 2:52 PM
rhhardin said...: As pets they always want to get behind the toilet.

If you have two, they agree to fight.; 4/11/08, 3:33 PM
Anonymous said...: ... all the way down.; 4/11/08, 3:49 PM
Trooper York said...: You know I am a pervert and all, I will admit it, but doesn't it look like they are lining up for a turtle gang bang, and just got confused and thought the rock was a hot sexy turtle. Just sayn'; 4/11/08, 3:58 PM
Trooper York said...: Doing tax returns since 5 in the
morning does strange things to your
mind.; 4/11/08, 3:59 PM
ricpic said...: Tom Turtle: Isn't that April all over for ya?

Tess Turtle: Yup, just when you find the perfect perch for sunbathing the sun goes and hides behind a cloud.

Tom Turtle: Oh well, we can always shuffle over to the Brooklyn Museum and pay a call on our Egyptian Turtle-God ancestors.

Tess Turtle: They showed proper respect, those Egyptians.

Tom Turtle: They sure did.; 4/11/08, 4:00 PM
JohnAnnArbor said...: What happens when a cat's in a turtle's yard?; 4/11/08, 4:24 PM
halojones-fan said...: Look at 'em, with those beady little eyes, that flat stare. They're planning something, I just know it.; 4/11/08, 4:43 PM
Bob said...: In Florida when I was growing up we called turtles like that cooters, and ate them. Strangely, we also called women's vaginas "cooter" also, and occasionally dined on that, as well.
;)

Figuratively speaking, of course. ;)

(what did cooter taste like? Chicken, of course. Unless you're referring to the other cooter, which tasted like...fish)

/insensitive; 4/11/08, 5:04 PM
ricpic said...: /sensitive

Bob takes himself out before the perpetually offended swoop in for the kill.

Should be tuna fish, to be exact.; 4/11/08, 5:22 PM
ricpic said...: /sensitive should've been /insensitive

Now I have to apologize to Bob. This is getting positively courtly convoluted. Shoulda stayed in bed.; 4/11/08, 5:27 PM
Trooper York said...: Bob, two words for you:

Pineapple juice.; 4/11/08, 5:41 PM
Matt Brown said...: The poor dears. They've blended in with the surroundings, and you've still managed to photograph them. You've become part of the turtle paparazzi, Professor Althouse.; 4/11/08, 6:26 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: Hey! Are those turtles deMets or deYankees?; 4/11/08, 6:39 PM
rcocean said...: I like turtles; 4/11/08, 9:26 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I'm wiping tears from my eyes after laughing way too much at all the "I like turtles" videos.; 4/11/08, 9:50 PM