It's Cute This Way
Maggie Koerth-Baker is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. A freelance science and health journalist, Maggie lives in Minneapolis, brain dumps on Twitter, and writes quite often for mental_floss magazine.
Responding to a request in the naked chimpanzee comments, reader Felix was kind enough to put together this charming photoshop job, which I've been told by the powers that be that I can't not share.
Good morning!
Apologies to RedEyedRex, the Flickr user who took the original picture.
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Cute like a nightmare. Thanks for that.
Good God.
This photo ended the Creation/Darwinism debate for a lot of people. I think with the clown makeup a lot more people will be able to see the evolutionary link between human and ape. We've finally discovered it, the missing link! It was f*cking clown makeup the whole time, of course.
Time to invest in some A Clockwork Orange style eye-keeper-openers since I know this image will haunt me every time I close my eyes.
Awesome, cheers.
Is he wearing a clown nose?
...and yet I cannot look away.
Have you ever said something, and then thought, "It probably wasn't a good idea to put that idea in anyone's head."
Yeah, I thought that.
And just to be clear...the clown makeup comment was not a request.
Dear god, no, it was a WARNING.
Jeez. . . that just makes it worse.
Ok, the unicorn chaser has turned out to be The joker. Who do we turn to now?
Need more unicorns.
See, now the first alternate image that popped into my head when I saw the original photo was this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/The_Thinker_close.jpg/450px-The_Thinker_close.jpg
Anyone else, or am I just weird?
Hang a couple of teabags from the ape's ear and you'll have it about right!
Now why did you have to go and make me think about nudist clowns?
You are my favorite and most hated guest bloggers.
Bravo!
Now that looks even more like my grandfather.
The link for "picture" links to the CC license rather than the actual picture. I'm guessing faulty cut/paste.
Actually, I'm glad you posted this. Without their fur, you can see why these animals can tear humans limb from limb. That "little guy" is ripped.
Holy hell. I thought I was pitiless. Now I find I must bow to one Maggie Koerth-Baker.
yes, she does have a certain, delightful cruelty. I wonder what dinner with her would be like? ("Darling, be a dear and peel me another bunny, there's a love now"...RRRROWR!)
Did Robin Williams fall off the wagon again?
/me hides in the corner and cries.
And BTW, I can't stop thinking about that flappy thing on the chimp's ass (and not in THAT way). I'm soooo glad evolution got rid of that thing, whatever the hell it is.
@24 Robert,
Why, that is the inflatable seats you see from those late night infomercials.
"Hi, Billy Mayes here with the inflatable flabby seat, designed specially for hairless troubled chimps wearing clown noses."
Okay, that may be a little far-out...
They are close looking, but Im still waiting to find that missing link that should be out there somewhere, not only are they actuallynbery different bodily, they are years behind mentally.
What I mean is we definately did not evolve. No other species
Would still exist, No other mammal would exist cause the new one would have wiped the old one out.
So if species don't actually change into other species then what happens? Are humans and animals different on a deeper level? Do we have souls with our reasoning and deep thought?
If so then it's simple, we were all put here.
Does that mean we are not accidents? Yes Indeed
What, the hairless chimp wasn't creepy enough, so now it's a hairless CLOWN chimp?
Look at the muscle definition on that ape! I am certain it could rip me apart and crack open my bones to eat the sweet, sweet marrow.