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hervatski		2013-01-14 01:11:29 PM

Yes, but is it tasty?

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2013-01-14 01:43:10 PM

That needs a few Brazilian whacks

Diogenes		2013-01-14 02:03:20 PM

My best friend is divorcing a Brazilian man-hopper he married. She's not nearly as interesting as this freak of nature.

ZAZ		2013-01-14 02:15:07 PM

Didn't everybody have a hat like that as a kid?

ZAZ		2013-01-14 02:17:56 PM

This is a lame rewrite of a two year old blog post that finally triggered the neuron in the Gawker network to condense it without adding value.

Treehoppers pretend to be twigs and thorns. It's what they do. We had a link a year or two ago when scientists discovered that a treehopper's crest is actually a modified third set of wings.

HulkHands		2013-01-14 02:22:11 PM

It's a pokemanz!

Ennuipoet		2013-01-14 02:24:07 PM

UberDave		2013-01-14 02:31:05 PM

AIIIIGHH!! That's like farking Brundlefly!!

Nabb1		2013-01-14 03:03:39 PM

I'd hit it.

What?

Shazam999		2013-01-14 03:27:22 PM

Sure is hairy for a brazillian.

js34603		2013-01-14 03:33:49 PM

Good thing two of those made it onto the Ark.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2013-01-14 03:35:23 PM

js34603: Good thing two of those made it onto the Ark.

Apparently they were brother and sister, though

Spanky_McFarksalot		2013-01-14 03:39:45 PM

nature don't care if it make you ugly so long as you keep getting laid.

or have a lot of money.

Guuberre		2013-01-14 03:43:52 PM

That's a lot of tree hoppers!

Pinner		2013-01-14 03:51:52 PM

Lives on the Glory Bush? Well. Not sticking it in anyone named Gloria. Evar.

Arkanaut		2013-01-14 04:05:22 PM

"Ladies, check out my giant hairy balls!"

SultanofSchwing		2013-01-14 04:09:44 PM

Hey now it's only had like 2000 years to evolve. Give it time.

Apos		2013-01-14 04:16:51 PM

kvinesknows		2013-01-14 04:23:04 PM

thank god its not a spider

SultanofSchwing		2013-01-14 04:26:06 PM

kvinesknows: thank god its not a spider

Not yet....

SirDigbyChickenCaesar		2013-01-14 04:29:34 PM

We can ill afford another Klendathu.

StreetlightInTheGhetto		2013-01-14 04:39:57 PM

No, that's the sea lamprey.

[clicks link]

Yeah, that guy could be kind of cute in animated form. That's nothing.

Click at your own risk:

http://www.glfc.org/sealamp/

/freaking mouth of teeth

SwissArmyGnome		2013-01-14 04:59:05 PM

Oh crap, it's the boss fight! But I think I see where its weak spots are.

Banned on the Run		2013-01-14 04:59:38 PM

looks like a boss you have to beat in a "humans repel alien invasion" platformer
/his main weapon is that the balls on his head charge like a Tesla coil, and when all 4 are glowing, they combine to discharge a lightning storm

turbocucumber		2013-01-14 05:21:15 PM

Calvin would be thrilled.

assets.amuniversal.com

/hot

GypsyJoker		2013-01-14 06:08:14 PM

IÄ! IÄ!

Counter_Intelligent		2013-01-14 06:08:15 PM

Not really scary. It looks like something you'd draw a circle around in Okami to make the tree on its head bloom.

Counter_Intelligent		2013-01-14 06:09:36 PM

Unless it's called a treehopper because its size relative to a grasshopper is the same as a full-grown tree is to a blade of grass.

bearded clamorer		2013-01-14 06:27:18 PM

Bonanza Jellybean		2013-01-14 06:54:45 PM

gulogulo		2013-01-14 07:10:55 PM

StreetlightInTheGhetto: No, that's the sea lamprey.

[clicks link]

Yeah, that guy could be kind of cute in animated form. That's nothing.

Click at your own risk:

http://www.glfc.org/sealamp/

/freaking mouth of teeth

Give the thing a break. It's the oldest living family of vertebrate with hagfishes.

Wolfmanjames		2013-01-14 07:12:55 PM

OK, who let Lady Gaga design insects?

drake113		2013-01-14 07:52:16 PM

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

Keizer_Ghidorah		2013-01-14 08:46:29 PM

Bonanza Jellybean: [l.wigflip.com image 640x424]

Oh God damn it.

ParagonComplex		2013-01-14 08:51:51 PM

Uhn-Uh, noooooooooooo...'PA. Get that thing the frak away from me.

no clever name here just move along		2013-01-14 09:38:20 PM

Looks like something I made in Spore....

WordsnCollision		2013-01-14 10:07:24 PM

Like flaming globes, Sigmund, like flaming globes!

Malivon		2013-01-14 10:41:35 PM

Keizer_Ghidorah: Bonanza Jellybean: [l.wigflip.com image 640x424]

Oh God damn it.

Seconded.

Fano		2013-01-14 11:50:08 PM

At least it isn't covered in lotus seed pods

Brainsick		2013-01-15 12:03:04 AM

StreetlightInTheGhetto: http://www.glfc.org/sealamp/

Today, sea lampreys are found in all the Great Lakes.
/sweet dreams

Coelacanth		2013-01-15 12:29:56 AM

Mother Nature must've designed that bug after a lost weekend in Cabo.

Fano		2013-01-15 01:13:34 AM

Brainsick: StreetlightInTheGhetto: http://www.glfc.org/sealamp/
[www.glfc.org image 332x200]
Today, sea lampreys are found in all the Great Lakes.
/sweet dreams

i.imgur.com

Nice try

Znuh		2013-01-15 03:22:23 AM

Fano: Brainsick: StreetlightInTheGhetto: http://www.glfc.org/sealamp/
[www.glfc.org image 332x200]
Today, sea lampreys are found in all the Great Lakes.
/sweet dreams

[i.imgur.com image 480x360]

Nice try

I have to ask, what the hell is that? Is it a shoop? Is it real? What is it from? Checking out the image file / name didn't shed any light. It's rare that someone comes up with a real challenge of an image, and dammit, I have to know more.

Valiente		2013-01-15 04:38:08 AM

Shazam999: Sure is hairy for a brazillian.

Came for this.

Sandwyrm		2013-01-15 04:41:16 AM

Znuh

It's a shop. Started about a decade ago with some dude photoshopping the center portion of a strange looking flower onto some woman's areola, which gave rise to the whole "blue-waffle" meme. This is one of the derivatives.

Apparently, the reason why it's so popular is there is a common revulsion/phobia of holey surfaces, which causes photoshops like this and their associated real-life phenomena to capture the imagination of it's viewers so completely.

Sandwyrm		2013-01-15 04:43:26 AM

Correction, not blue waffle. I can't recall the exact term for the original shop anymore, but it's originally from a blue flower, hence my confusion.

Kelvron		2013-01-15 08:04:55 AM

Sandwyrm: Correction, not blue waffle. I can't recall the exact term for the original shop anymore, but it's originally from a blue flower, hence my confusion.

Blue lotus seed pods I think.

Znuh		2013-01-15 09:39:50 AM

Sandwyrm: Correction, not blue waffle. I can't recall the exact term for the original shop anymore, but it's originally from a blue flower, hence my confusion.

It's well done. It seriously causes juuuust enough revulsion to not thoroughly examine the image at first glance. Thanks!

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