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Published: 2006-04-15 12:33:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 2983; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 683
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... as per the contest criteria, I need to cite my sources:resource: diamond plate
stock: dwarf hamster
... but okay...
... I usually don't make it a practice to do photomanips, but this little devART contest had me going from the start, so I had to make something just for the heck of it... hey, shove me in a cardboard box with a few limitations and I promise that I'll make you giggle...
... or snicker...
... or shake your head...
... I knew exactly what I wanted to do as soon as I saw the contest invite... it only took a matter of time to find the stock/resources to make it real...
... I'll be right with you as soon as I beat this boss...
... A B A B Up Down Up Down Select Start...
/thumbcramp
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This one is a complete cutie!
Congratulations on the bronze medal, and thank you for making me smile at this
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... thanks!
... I hope this is proof positive that Photoshop can be used for good as well as evil...
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Yes!!! I love Photoshop when its used for good!!! 
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aww so cute. Great egg hun! Good luck with the contest!
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... thanks... after looking at some of the other contest entries, I tried to give my egg a kind of lunatic Monty Python cutout look...
... I think I may have accomplished it...
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OMG! That is just toooo cute and funny 
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... thanks Lisa... you know that when you laugh while making art, it's gotta be good....
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Love the expression on this chipper hamster pilot as he navigates his B-1 Egg Dropper Bomber
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... thank you kindly, it was a fun project to work on...
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That is one big mouse (I'm using the Nintendo controller as a reference 
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... no, it's like this miniature hamster-sized version you get in the gumball machine at WalMart...
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Still a big hamster. Don't tell him(her) I called it a mouse.
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well.. i know the bunny carried his cross
and died of easter egg poisoning.
is it the Hamster's evil doing?
puahaha.
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... you animators are like... really weird...
... yanno what I mean?
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... good stock... thanks again!
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How adorable ! I'm sooooooooooooooo lovin' the goggles ! You rock my sweetness
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... thankies Angel... I'm glad to see you visit me here in the psych ward every now and then...
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... you're adorable... can I take you home with me?
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You got yourself a deal 
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oh I wish I was a little piece of orange (piece-o-orange),
goin' squirty squirty squirty
makin' everybody flirty,
oh I wish I was a little piece of orange...
/campsong
... so...
... tell me a story...
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~joins in singing before she begins her story~
I remember going to Miami for a 2 week vacation with my family. 
My parents were taking a nap 
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... I have a story about catching crabs too, but mine is not as funny...
(wait, that didn't come out the way I wanted it to...)
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... otay... here goes...
... about 5 years ago, I was invited to a huge wedding reception/weekend family reunion in Astoria, Oregon... Astoria is a sleepy picturesque little seaport town (the backdrop for movies like "The Goonies" and "Short Circuit") which is famous for its salmon charters that take you out to the mouth of the Columbia River, where you can average 15lb-25lb catches if you have the right skipper... naturally, I packed my saltwater rod along with my tweed sportcoat, hoping to get in a little action afterwards...
... the reception was on a Saturday, but everyone had made hotel reservations through the weekend, so a bunch of my long-lost cousins and I decided to go out on Sunday morning and catch something, only instead of trying to fish I was taught how to line-fish for Dungeness crab...
... the whole concept was really alien to me at first... where I come from there are only two ways to catch crab, the first using a crab pot and a boat, letting the traps soak all afternoon with a baitbag full of herring or squid or even canned catfood... the other way is to dip for them in shallow tide, which means endless hours of stumbling around tidal flats in knee-deep eel grass with a dip net, scooping them out of the ice-cold water before you do something silly like step on them...
... essentially what we did was take a spool of 25lb test and make about two dozen loops out of it (winding it "hand-elbow" style, much like you would do if you were coiling an extension cord), then tie a huge knot in the middle until you have something that resembles a loose cheerleader's pompom made out of tangled fishing line... tie off the biggest hook you've got in your tackle box to the middle and attach a nasty old chicken leg on it, then spray it liberally with WD-40 (I'm not kidding; I guess the cod-liver smell attracts them!)... swivel off a 1/2 oz sinker on 3' of line and now you've got this huge rat's nest that you can actually ast...
... we all took our places on the breakwater and started casting into the channel... I was doubtful at first, but in theory the crabs come along the bottom and get stuck in the "pompom" until you can actually feel the line go "ping-ping-ping" when they get stuck... reel them in and if they are a 6" male, you got a keeper...
... about an hour into this I was pulling up my line to see if I had lost my chicken leg when one of those mature oversized seagulls dropped down on the water to see what the commotion was all about... he landed on my line as the "pompom" came to the surface and suddenly his leg got tangled in the knotted line... he took off but only got so far until he came to the end of my line and started flying around me in circles like one of those gas-powered model airplanes on a tether...
... he was crying like crazy, I didn't want to hurt him but wasn't sure what to do... I didn't want to cut the line, so the next obvious thing was to reel him in... my cousins started scrambling for position, some to offer help, some were running for cover as the seagull came in closer and closer, getting more and more angry... finally we were able to drop him to the breakwater, but the gull was in such a state of panic that before we could release him, he pooped all over one of my cousins, then bit him and took out a huge piece of scalp out of the top of his head...
... now whenever my cousin sees me at another family reunion, all he does is point to the scar on his head and introduce me to others saying, "you know, he pooped on me too..."
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I can see this all unfolding !!!!
I know all about WD-40 and chicken legs for crabin'
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... maybe shrimp fettucini and "A River Runs Through It"?
... as I've told you before, a woman that is both attractive and talented as yourself and loves to fish as well is a dangerous combo IMHO... I think I've already told you, I have absolutely NO CLUE how to catch Gulf Coast fish, nor have I ever tried fly fishing but am dying to give it a chance someday... every so often I find myself watching the Outdoor Channel and the first thing I say to myself is "OMG, don't they have any sense? Those guys are so stoopid, they're standing up in their boat!!"
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... I am but your humble servant... teach me the ways of the Force, oh Fishy One...
... after I trounce you soundly in a sporting match of backyard croquet, of course...
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Pack your bags my little guppy and let me teach you something
Meet me in the backyard
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...y'know, we keep saying we're gonna do this someday...
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~looks @ her watch~ YUP... it's time
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I AM POISON HERE ME ROAR!!
... if you don't play by those rules, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about...
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I'm confused and
I also must have a dirty mind. I was thinking the bad boy side of you was coming out and then I heard the sound of the roar then my own purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
In a Catwoman kind of way. If you know what I mean
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... I never knew you had a dirty mind!
... some people play it this way, some people don't... I grew up with a rule in croquet that when you complete the double-diamond course, you re-enter the field proclaiming "I am Poison!" (or "I am the Black Widow!") so now when it's your turn, any ball you tap is dead and taken out of the game... Poison players can either go on a search-and-destroy mission trying to take everybody out, or lie in wait at the end peg ready to pounce on those that are trying to finish... you can have more than one Poison player in the game which can make things really interesting...
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I love it ! I'll never play the same old way again. It's time we get our game on
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... name your weekend sista...
... but realize that it better be a few months out because I seriously need to workout for the event... yanno, get in shape, shed a few pounds, practice standing up in a boat without losing my composure...
... I don't want you to see me as old, fat and oogly when we do pull this off... just old and oogly...
... one of my New Year's resolutions for 2006 was to stop flirting with ~shiiizzzam ... obviously you can see how far I got with that one...
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I'm thinking the 4th of July weekend
I LOVE reading your letters and the things you write here. Besides having the BEST EVER hand written print, the things you right make me smile and most often laugh
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... okay, let me do a little bit of research and I'll get back to you ASAP...
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... this is solid proof that photomanips don't need to have a bunch of rotting zombies or shrouded women standing on beaches in order to be successful...
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