A hot rod hamster

September 6, 2002 1:39 PM

A hot rod hamster caused quite a stir when he was caught racing along the promenade – in his dragster car. More Friday Funny.
posted by Grod (21 comments total)

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posted by Grod at 1:40 PM on September 6, 2002

God damn that Stuart Little, poisoning the minds of the world's rodents with his flashy cars and cheap sex.
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:42 PM on September 6, 2002

God, what an inane write-up. Sounded like it was specifically aimed at getting picked up by "weird news" aggregates.

Pretty funny, though, a rodent in a car! Someone should write a book about it or something.
posted by me3dia at 1:44 PM on September 6, 2002

me3dia, thank you for bringing back a portion of my childhood I had completely forgotten:)
posted by Grod at 1:50 PM on September 6, 2002

I, for one, welcome our race-car hamster....oh, forget it.
posted by dragstroke at 1:53 PM on September 6, 2002

No problem. (By the way, I wasn't dissing your post, just the journalist's skills.)
posted by me3dia at 1:54 PM on September 6, 2002

Anyone remember when bluesquare.com was running the live streaming video of the hamster dragster racing, and you could bet on the races? No? Fine, then.

I had two hamsters and used to put them in a hamster ball for running about the kitchen. It was really quite amusing because one of the hamsters could run faster than the other, so before too long the one that couldn't keep up would be tumbling around the inside of the ball like a towel in a clothes dryer.

I miss those days.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:02 PM on September 6, 2002

"You can just imagine a nice, sunny day on Metafilter, eating your chips and then this stupid piece of news goes whizzing past".
posted by *JazZ* at 2:13 PM on September 6, 2002

In my youth, my brother and I would enter various Hamster Races with our smart hamsters. I will just say that our house was filled with race winnings (read as: many Hartz hamster cages and accessories).
posted by gluechunk at 2:14 PM on September 6, 2002

me3dia's right about the writing style, still you've got to love a news story that has the quote: "He is a good hamster, he just goes a bit mad when he is behind the wheel."
posted by taz at 2:29 PM on September 6, 2002

my brother and I would enter various Hamster Races with our smart hamsters

gluechunk: breeding the uberhamster.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:34 PM on September 6, 2002

"We think somebody must have been playing with him outside and they have forgotten about him and he has just taken off."

I highly doubt that I'd forget about my free range hampster.
posted by gummi at 3:25 PM on September 6, 2002

hamp? ham.
posted by gummi at 3:25 PM on September 6, 2002

Why is it that everyone misspells hamster as hamPster?

It's not as if anyone pronounces it that way, is it? Not picking on anyone here, just idly wondering.

I suspect it may be because people in no way want to associate hamsters with tasty pig foodstuff "ham".
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:35 PM on September 6, 2002

Kaf-- I wish I knew. But I always catch myself spelling it incorrectly. Always.
posted by gummi at 3:43 PM on September 6, 2002

Crash, I too miss my little guy; he was my cooking companion. My job was to cook-- his job was to eat the bell pepper seeds.

He had a little car like this critter cruiser, but I wish we had gotten this motorcycle.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 4:03 PM on September 6, 2002

The motorcycle is Snake River Canyon Jump accident waiting to happen.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:38 PM on September 6, 2002

Why is it that everyone misspells hamster as hamPster?

A linguistic phenomenon known as consonant shift. Also, the influence of words like Hampshire and dumpster.
posted by dhartung at 6:47 PM on September 6, 2002

Being a punk rocker, I thought that furry rodents was not for me. Then I found out about this place, and I've been pogoing ever since.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 7:42 PM on September 6, 2002

Then I found out about this place,

....so much... horrible web design... must take 5 showers and find where I threw my eyes after I ripped them out..
posted by Stan Chin at 7:46 PM on September 6, 2002

[Mr Miyagi] I see you are not a true punk rocker. We do not care for web design. [/Mr Miyagi]
posted by soundofsuburbia at 7:52 PM on September 6, 2002