Cuteness!

[the_lady_lily]

I don't know how many of you have been following the story of Knut the polar bear, but metonymy just pointed me at the most adorable video.

Knut Out And About.

It's in German, which is CLEARLY the reason I'm watching it. To improve my language skills. Yes. Because obviously 'and now it's time for the polar bear to get into the bathtub' is clearly going to come up in every piece of Germanic classical scholarship ever.

Comments

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

Toben ist eben anstrengend, auch für einen Eisbären.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Aber natürlich!

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

I love Knut. I so want the polar bear going in the bath-tub as an icon...

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

It's the noise he makes just before he's lowered in and remembers that he likes this water stuff that's brilliant :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Knut is my new best friend. YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM HE'S MINE.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Clearly we already came up with the solution when metonymy alerted me to the existence of this video:

the_lady_lily (22:08:50): i too WANT ONE
metonymy (22:11:01): everybody does
metonymy (22:11:06): we need to start a letter-writing campaign
metonymy (22:11:23): "dear genetic engineers: cloned baby polar bears that stay babies. get to work, stat."
the_lady_lily(22:12:34): heh. 'and do a couple that don't stay babies so we can do something about the species extinction too'
the_lady_lily (22:12:46): he is so sweet bumbling around on his little legs!
metonymy (22:12:57): he really is
metonymy (22:13:01): and in the bath?
the_lady_lily (22:13:13): swishing around like a cheerful small polar thingie!
the_lady_lily (22:13:15): am in love.

[oddcellist.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to point out that clearly I have the best claim to him as new best friend of anyone here so far, seeing as how I'm actually here (though I'm not averse to sharing). Riding the subway has become dangerous; I never know when I'll suddenly see a picture of him in a newspaper or in Berliner Fenster and be utterly undone with the cuteness of it all.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Stealth Knut cuteness!

ACK!

[marmoorah.livejournal.com]

You and G with the cuteness thing, wow. By the way, absolutely dying to meet you and looking forward to Chicago!

Re: ACK!

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

G remains convinced that all polar bears are men in suits. Even though Knut is *clearly* far too small to be a man in a suit.

Looking forward to Chicago too! :)