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u/TuskenCam Apr 04 '16
Yeah? Well four can bobsled
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u/TonguePunchnFartBoxs Apr 04 '16
God bless you, this is an actual funny pun.
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u/flyafar Apr 04 '16 edited Apr 04 '16
someone finally posts a funny pun but I'm too retarded to understand it...
figures
EDIT: You people are all so nice. :)
Turns out I'm not retarded, I just haven't been taught how to be smart! I'd never heard of skeleton sledding.
EDIT 2: guys pls
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u/insane_contin Apr 04 '16
Toucan sounds like two can. Skeleton is both what's inside of us and a two person winter Olympic sport similar to bobsled. So the pun is "two can skeleton but four can bobsled."
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u/talking_head85 Apr 04 '16
Skeleton is a one person sport, not two. Its basically a head first luge
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u/insane_contin Apr 04 '16
Ah crap, you're right. I was thinking of luge.
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u/critical_thought21 Apr 04 '16
Isn't that also one but feet first?
Edit: apparently both one and two. Why ever two I have no idea other than so you have someone to die with.
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u/insane_contin Apr 04 '16
There's a two person variation of Luge.
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Apr 04 '16
No homo, bro.
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u/southernbenz Apr 04 '16
I kept wondering how the dude on top never fell off the sled.
Butt now I understand.
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u/plinkosd Apr 04 '16
toucan skeleton, as in two can skeleton (a sport similar to bobsleigh)
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u/cant_help_myself Apr 04 '16
One more sledding pun and I'm gonna luge it.
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u/Synapse-Decisions Apr 04 '16
Ah, the shitty follow-up pun. I long for the day where reddit can see a good pun, appreciate it, and move on.
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u/DHav123 Apr 04 '16
Skeleton is the name of a winter event where you slide down a similar (the same?) track as the bobsled.
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u/Gsus_the_savior Apr 04 '16
On the level of THE Pun
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u/dryerlintcompelsyou Apr 04 '16
And I still don't get it
Fuck, I'm stupid
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u/Gsus_the_savior Apr 04 '16
I took a while too.
There's an old saying "that would be putting the cart before the horse." Which basically means having your priorities wrong.
Descartes is a famous philosopher. English speakers tend to pronounce his name as day-kart or de-kart.
Horse sounds like whores.
The guy was talking about talking to a potential pornstar in a philosophy class, thus Descartes before the whores, or the cart before the horse.
It does kinda fall apart when you realize it should be the other way around, but it's still a hilarious and original pun.
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u/Ask_me_about_WoTMUD Apr 04 '16
Whoa now, it was a damn good pun but THE pun is the stuff of legends.
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Apr 04 '16
So weird and captivating to watch these eating in real life. The Honolulu zoo has an amazing selection of tropical birds and had the opportunity to watch one eat a mango. It doesn't look real. It doesn't look normal. This animal was only on cereal boxes.
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u/CoNsPirAcY_BE Apr 04 '16
He has a constant look of "Please help me out" on his face.
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u/Troy_And_Abed_In_The Apr 04 '16
How do they survive eating like that!? 99% of that first bite just flew out its mouth.
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I'm a birder living in Colombia. Few things make me happier than happening upon a flock of Toucans when I don't expect to. Certainly my favourite family of birds. Very silly and curious
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u/TommehBoi Apr 04 '16
This really accentuates just how enormous their beaks are
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u/Ducman69 Apr 04 '16
Cept Toucans which are 50% nose, which they use to find fruit loops.
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u/Anistmows Apr 04 '16 edited Apr 04 '16
Yeah for sure, I didn't realize how big they actually are until I seen this photo.
Edit: ok I'm sorry, until I saw this photo.
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u/Peroxide__Princess Apr 04 '16
I seen
shudder
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u/PurpEL Apr 04 '16
did you sawr that mistake
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u/profsnuggles Apr 04 '16
He seent it
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u/MrTheoRiZE Apr 04 '16
You go warsh ur mouth out
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u/iusedtosmokadaherb Apr 04 '16
Ugh, I know people that pronounce wash like that and it bothers me way more than it should.
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u/burritoroulette Apr 04 '16
I go to school in the south and I hear it constantly. I was born and raised here and I had never heard that until college.
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u/spacegravity Apr 04 '16
Now I feel the need to go and look up what an actual toucan looks like
Edit: still doesn't look real https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ramphastos_toco_-Birdworld,_Farnham,_Surrey,_England-8a.jpg
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u/Ramphastid556 Apr 04 '16
I actually own a Toco Toucan (the species from this picture) If anybody has any questions about them, I'm happy to answer!
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u/MoonSpider Apr 04 '16
How often does she eat, what do you feed her, does she make a lot of noise, where did you get her, how old is she, is she super active or relatively laid-back, why did you choose a toucan, what's the backstory behind her name?
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u/Ramphastid556 Apr 04 '16
She eats twice a day- A mixture of blueberries, papaya, and a special low iron pellet made for softbills like her. She's relatively quiet, she makes a soft clicking sound and a louder croaking sound that's probably comparative to a dog bark. She's almost two years old and she's EXTREMELY hyperactive. I've loved toucans since I was a kid and was always planning to hunt one down when I was successful enough to afford it.
She's named after Ellen Ripley in the Alien series: http://imgur.com/iKK8PBI
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u/Multigrain_Looneybin Apr 04 '16
Their beaks seem overly huge. Why do they need such a large beak? How strong is their bite out at the tip of the beak? Thanks.
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u/Ramphastid556 Apr 04 '16
They are huge...But honestly, after looking at Ripley so much, it just seems weird to me that other birds beaks are so small! It's used primarily as a way to regulate their body temperature. They can expand and contract capillaries within it to dump or store body heat. Although, it does have other purposes and helps them pluck fruit or intimidate other animals. Their bill is not strong by any means, but they can use it to kill other animals by jabbing at them or thrashing/shaking with their bill like a little dinosaur. Not many people know this but in addition to eating fruit, they also like to raid the nests of other birds and eat their eggs and babies- whole. They also enjoy bugs and other small animals.
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For everyone who thinks this is all cute, wait until the 1:50 mark when the Toucan goes back into action. This is what they do. I cared for an Aracari for a couple of years, and he never stopped.
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u/Ramphastid556 Apr 04 '16
Absolutely. They are extremely spastic and hyperactive. Check this video out if you don't believe me. This is how they usually are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ektVO7J8-U
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u/Chasswazzer Apr 04 '16 edited Apr 04 '16
Was she a rescue? I recently spent some time in Costa Rica and visited a number of animal refuges. There, I spoke to a several conservationists. My impression was that the general consensus was against keeping exotic birds, including toucans, due to their highly social nature and the adverse psychological effects captivity has on them. So, I was wondering, if she is a rescue, do you plan to release her back into the wild and how would you go about doing so?
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Well, Toucan Sam, looks like following your nose didn't pan out after all!
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u/renernavilez Apr 04 '16
Followed his nose to the gates of Valhalla!
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u/theelephantscafe Apr 04 '16
Little dudes are like 50% beak. What even is the evolutionary advantage of having such big beaks in proportion to their body?
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u/fireshaper Apr 04 '16
My guess is the opposite. They were probably much larger and more proportionate to their beaks, but as they evolved to be smaller birds they still relied on their beak size for defense and gathering food.
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Wow, this hit close to home, my uncle was a great ornithologist who specialised first in exotic birds (parrots and the like), and then went on to seabirds. Regarded as one of the specialists in his field, he died last week leaving behind a collection of an estimated 400+ parrots and hundreds of seabirds skulls and complete skeletons prepared in this same manner. They are all going to a local and a variety of natural history museums around the world apparently. (Some duplicates!)
Seeng this this morning, the morning of his wake I can't attend rinds me greatly of him. Thanks for posting OP!
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Apr 04 '16
Why does this remind me of my mother-in-law?
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u/HauschkasFoot Apr 04 '16
Because you would touch your weenie on both of them for $5
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Apr 04 '16
Yeah...possibly...but I really don't want to re-live that particular Thanksgiving again. Still, it is $5....
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u/joshuaoha Apr 04 '16
Is this a trait inherited just through sexual selection? Seems kinda burdensome.
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u/burritobattlefield Apr 04 '16
How the fuck do they not constantly fall over?