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02 September 2006

"Mamaaa, it's me — your little lamb! Would I lie?" This is the OMG-SO-CUTE face (and body) of deception.

post by: rob511 at: 05:24 | 11 comments

"A wolf in sheep's clothing? Surely you're mistaken, young man. It's sheep all the way down."

posted by Daniel Charms 02 September | 06:56

Look at its little happy face!

posted by essexjan 02 September | 09:45

Wow. What a great image - and fascinating off-the-wall info. I've never had such a cheerfully grotesque feeling before!

posted by taz 02 September | 09:56

lambicans!

posted by matteo 02 September | 12:07

Related AskMe thread that's one of my favorites.

posted by Miko 02 September | 12:14

No, I WANNA BE THE FACE AND BODY OF DECEPTION!

I never get to do nuthin' around here.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 02 September | 15:35

Cute little thing looks hot in his lambskin coat. ^_^

posted by redvixen 02 September | 17:01

Miko — thanks for the link. I missed the original thread. (I think I prefer the coat solution to the bloody one.)

And taz, maybe that can be our new slogan: "Mecha ... for that cheerfully grotesque feeling!"

posted by rob511 02 September | 22:57

I'm still not quite getting it -- whose blood/skin is attached to whom? It sounds like dead mama blood/skin is rubbed on the baby, but why would some other mama lamb then find that baby OK? Or is the dead mama blood/skin rubbed on the living mama lamb, so that the baby accepts it? I'm so confused.

posted by occhiblu 02 September | 23:19

Nevermind, got it, Google to the rescue:

So they had a baby lamb needing a mother and a mother needing a baby lamb. And the mother would not recognize this orphan as her own child....she would not care for it.

Well, long ago they discovered a way to solve both of these problems at the same time. To get this mother to "adopt" this motherless little lamb...to get her to see this lamb as her own child and nurture it and feed it, here is what they would do: They would take the ewe's dead lamb and drain it's blood and then they would take the motherless lamb and cover it with the blood from nose to tail. When they did this, the ewe would adopt this baby as her own. The scent would be that of her own offspring and she would eagerly love it and nurse it as if it were her own flesh and blood.

I have no idea why I couldn't figure that out based on the info presented earlier. Sigh.

posted by occhiblu 02 September | 23:27

Silence of the lambs

posted by eekacat 03 September | 01:10

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