Diminutive Television presenter with an aversion to rockets

That's brilliant!

Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 24 species, classified in six or seven genera.[1]

The name hamster is derived from the German verb hamstern, which means "to hoard" because hamsters have expandable cheek pouches lined with fur to store their food. The word hamstern itself comes from earlier OHG hamustro, from ORuss choměstrǔ, which is either a blend of the root of Russ khomiak "hamster" and a Baltic word (cf. Lith staras "hamster") or of Iranian origin (cf. Av hamaēstar "oppressor").

Although the Golden Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) was first described scientifically in 1839, it was not until 1930 that researchers were able to successfully breed and domesticate hamsters. Zoologist Israeli Aharoni first found and captured hamsters in Syria that to this day all pet hamsters in the world are descended from.

Hamster behaviour can vary depending on their environment, genetics, and interaction with people. Because they are easy to breed in captivity, hamsters are often used as lab animals in more economically developed countries. Hamsters have also become established as popular small pets.

Hamsters are crepuscular. In the wild, they burrow underground in the daylight to avoid being caught by predators. Their diet contains a variety of foods, including dried food, berries, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables. In the wild they will eat any wheat, nuts and small bits of fruit and vegetables that they might find lying around on the ground, and will occasionally eat small insects such as small fruitflies or mealworms. They have elongated fur-lined pouches on both sides of their heads that extend to their shoulders, which they stuff full of food to be stored, brought back to the colony or to be eaten later.

Goto http://www.hamsters.co.uk for all your hamster needs;





Julien

Filigree Siberian Hamster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoToOg6FnoE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTLlrXEzkAo...feature=related

Basil!

I could do...possibly...

Oh go on you little tease, you know you want to!

OK, i'll see what I can do later, as long as you think it is appropriate for an adult's Modelling site.

Adults? This Lot?

Ha Ha - That's what it said on the homepage, so I assumed you were....

OK Mr. Obi - Jiff, I've uploaded 2 of my drawings, the Tobbies are the cat-like creatures, the Leosians are the little squiggly-haired weasel-type creatures, and they're all STUPID!!! These may be hard to read as they're drawn in pencil. Any questions please ask, and enjoy!







They are only basic, but I'd like to make a career out of these, and the pictures are my trademark.

Thanks for posting those. I particularly like the punch-up at the bank. There's a lot of interesting little details in those pictures too, and careful perusal brings its rewards - I did like the .cod web address!

Today's word, ladies and germs, is:

spam!

SPAM - an e-mail from your bank manager telling you that you have exceeded your overdraft limit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o


Need I say more???

Specially made for a certain class of driver, who reads maps backwards.
Edgar

Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.

or www.spam.com Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock. The product has become part of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat, which has made it part of pop culture and folklore.

Varieties of Spam vary by region and include Spam Classic, Spam Hot & Spicy, Spam Less Sodium, Spam Lite, Spam Oven Roasted Turkey, Hickory Smoked, and Spam Spread. WOW So much spam! In 2002, the six billionth can of Spam was sold.

Do you want spam with that?

Man: Well, what've you got?

Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...

Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...

Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!

Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!

SPAM

Julien

SHUT UP! Bloody Vikings!

Isn't it supposed to be SPiced hAM? - I loved spam fritters as a kid.

David

Me too! Ever tried Spamburgers?

Glad you like them Mr Obi-Jiff sir, I have over a hundred of these in a folder, I might put some more on later...at request.

On the third picture, it wasn't actually drawn as a bank, but a pub. The Tobby Banking posters are just everywhere.

I'd be interested in seeing more of these. You could start a thread on Tobbies.

I'll see what I can do, but don't you think people will say "What the hell is that!?!?" ? I'll have to dig them out because some of the better ones are somewhere else..

They say that of most things I post...

OK then, "Tobbies" the new topic, coming soon to a Britmodeller forum near you.

Right then, what shall we have for today's word? How about:

The Stig

Someone who's always down in the dumps.

[groan]I don't believe you just said that![/groan]

At least I didn't mention Top Gear. Oh, bugger ...

That's it, you've done it now!

It's what you get the wrong end of when you have a cold.

David

Pun-derbar!

The Stig is the name given to the racing driver on the BBC show Top Gear. In the show he is cast as a mysterious "tame racing driver".[1] He is fully credited as a presenter, albeit as "the Stig", alongside Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.

The Stig's primary functions on the show are to post lap times in various cars around the Top Gear Test Track in Dunsfold Park, and to train each week's guest in setting a lap time in the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car feature on the show. In addition the Stig carries out other driving duties when the need arises.

The Stig has also appeared on some of Jeremy Clarkson's motoring specials, such as Heaven and Hell and Thriller.

While the original stig was Perry Mcarthy I dont know who the current one is, maybe still him?

Julien

Not as much interest in the Stig as I thought there might. Oh well, we live and learn. Or we live, at any rate.

Today's word is:

chimp

see under , chester zoo , escape and mike as posted in this forum !!!

I was wondering how long it would take someone to make the connection!

Chimp:

What a horse does to get over a fence in South Africa.

Now that is funny!

Welcome to www.bushorchimp.com
Welcome to the "George W. Bush or Chimpanzee" webpage. This is a little project I decided to start once I realized how much George W. Bush looks like a chimpanzee. I'm not a member of any political party, and I have nothing in particular against the man. I just think he kind of looks like a chimpanzee. -Bill Feldspar

Some how me thinks he's not a fan

CHIMP is a generic tool for the modeling of chemical phenomena. Eventually, chemical reaction modeling, molecular mechanics, and quantum mechanic modules will be implemented, along with an easy to use graphical-user interface (GUI). At present, CHIMP has the ability to perform dynamic Monte Carlo simulations on chemical reactions, in particular heterogeneous catalytic reactions.

Chimping is a colloquial term used in digital photography (especially when using a digital single-lens reflex camera) to describe the habit of checking every photo on the camera display (LCD) immediately after capture. Some photographers use the term in a derogatory sense to describe the actions of amateur photographers, but the act of reviewing images on-camera is not necessarily frowned upon by professional or experienced photographers.
I do this, does this make me a chimp? ...... on second thought dont answer that

or;

Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially known as a chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan where the Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:

Common Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes: the better known chimpanzee lives primarily in West and Central Africa.
Bonobo, Pan paniscus: also known as the "Pygmy Chimpanzee", this species is found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Chimpanzees are members of the Hominidae family, along with gorillas, humans, and orangutans. Chimpanzee are thought to have split from human evolution about 6 million years ago and thus the two chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives to humans; all being members of the Hominini tribe (along with extinct species of Hominina subtribe). Chimpanzees are the only known members of the Panina subtribe. The two Pan species split only about one million years ago.



Julien

A ton of useful information there, Julien. Thanks for that.

Bonobos are the ones that'll sh*g anything, aren't they. Bit like Jordan...

That's why Julien posted a picture of her!

Didn't recognise her at first - must be because she hadn't shaved...

As Obi-Jiff seems to be MIA it's time for a;


I am nominating todays word as: FIREFOX

Julien

ps He's gonna kill me for this, but we cant wait any longer.

??

That was from the chimp thread, have you not heard of special kung fu chimp?

Now back on with todays word please.

Julien

Aaah so! It's not the title of the image then??!

Firefox: I think it's one of those religious things. The schism of today is Google or Firefox, just like the schism of the 90s was PC or Mac. To me it's about as meaningful as the big end -v- little end debate, but as religion winds people up quicker than attaching them to a Thunderscreech's propeller at full revs, I'm staying out of this one before I offend someone.

You get this when you google Firefox on the picture search;


I must admit thought I was thinking more of this when I set the word;


Julien