The Mystery of the Little Bear is Solved
In my post On the Road – Honolulu – Cute to Bizarre I showed you an image of a cute animal that I thought was a bear. As reader Stacey Johle pointed out in a comment, this is not the case.
First, let me note that the comment arrived on the old temporary site that I had set up to save Madang – Ples Bilong Mi after I was hacked and could no longer upload images. That site was www.mymadang.wordpress.com. The site is now set as Private so that search engines can’t find it and people can’t land there. To my horror, I was still getting an average of 100 hits a day on that site. It is dead now, at least to anybody but me. I’ll leave it there, but nobody should be able to access it. I just hope that Google gets its act together and realizes soon that it should direct people here instead.
Okay, back to the mysterious animal. First, here is the image from my previous post: (click the link in the first paragraph if you want to read the post)
The animal is a Tanuki. Sorry, I don’t know what they are saying to each other. They look a bit like raccoons, but even cuter. Thanks, Stacey, for solving this puzzle.
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I loved the link to the blog and especially the later comments about the Tanuki Mario! I remember that game well and may never be able to think about it in quite the same way!!
Glad the article helped you out, despite the crude “anatomical references”, haha. The picture of the two raccoon dogs you posted was meant to parody the “you has a flavor” cat macros, so it basically says “Excuse me? Do you have flavor?” in extremely messed-up Japanese. If you’re not familiar with that particular macro (or lolcats in general) it might seem a little weird!
P.S. Honolulu is my home city
Thanks for that, Erin. It’s all the more funny to know what it means.
I’ve been to Honolulu many times. It’s one of my favorite cities.
MadDog