Bonus Bunny

July 21, 2004 4:24 AM

Mega Rabbit.
posted by moonbird (14 comments total)

From mega- representing the combined form of the Greek me´gaj meaning "great" i.e. large in size, prefixing rabbit likely from the Northern French and/or Flemish, cf rabouillère (the burrow made by the female rabbit to kindle in), also the possibly more primative Middle English rabet. Synonyms: big bunny, poss. large lapin.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:50 AM on July 21, 2004

Does he have very sharp teeth?

RUN AWAY!!!!
posted by a3matrix at 4:57 AM on July 21, 2004

Ahh, the joy of automatically-generated video-still slideshows.
posted by rory at 5:04 AM on July 21, 2004

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

I always laugh when I see that footnote after some utterly trivial story. It's like playing with my 3 year old nephew. "Watch this Uncle! Watch this John!" followed by the pause while he figures out exactly what he wants me to watch.
posted by substrate at 5:23 AM on July 21, 2004

ARTHUR: Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.
posted by johnnyboy at 5:31 AM on July 21, 2004

substrate - yeah, you can just picture the follow-up:

BREAKING NEWS: Roberto the Big Bunny, featured on Local 6 News last week, has kept growing... and he's now the size of TWO three-year-old children. In fact, authorities fear he may have eaten one. We cross now to Amsterdam, where police have staked out his Dutch hutch...
posted by rory at 5:39 AM on July 21, 2004

Yeah, yeah. I'll be impressed when it can balance a whole plate of pancakes on its head.
posted by angry modem at 5:39 AM on July 21, 2004

You can picture the follow-up right here.
posted by biffa at 5:57 AM on July 21, 2004

I suspect that the rabbit is only that long with his legs stretched out behind him. I hope for his owners' sake that he is. Otherwise they would be powerless against his sexual advances-- if a normal-sized rabbit will try to hump a dog, a giant rabbit is likely to treat everything that moves as his prison bitch.
posted by Mayor Curley at 6:32 AM on July 21, 2004

Obviously fake.
posted by bargle at 6:35 AM on July 21, 2004

BREAKING NEWS: Roberto the Big Bunny, featured on Local 6 News last week, has kept growing... and he's now the size of TWO three-year-old children. In fact, authorities fear he may have eaten one. We cross now to Amsterdam, where police have staked out his Dutch hutch...

Actually, I believe he's now living in the forest outside the sub-division.

Hello, tasty children...
posted by ursus_comiter at 6:57 AM on July 21, 2004

Obviously fake

That was my first reaction, but apparently not.

Yipes. It's Night of the Lepus, here to kill us all. If only Old Glory Insurance had a Bunny Attack plan...
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:45 AM on July 21, 2004

Big bunny would very much like to meet a delicious crunchy kitty.
posted by troutfishing at 8:53 AM on July 21, 2004

Considering even small rabbits can be pretty effective at getting you to feed/pet/pay attention to them, Roberto ought to get just about anything he wants.

I miss my rabbit, and Oolong, too.
posted by tommasz at 9:08 AM on July 21, 2004