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BoredPanda presents an array of real-life snowmen, many of which pay homage to the winter creativity of young Calvin and his friend Hobbes.
A Snotoro!
posted by Going To Maine at 8:35 AM on December 23, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Going To Maine at 8:35 AM on December 23, 2016 [4 favorites]
My son and I made this one a few years ago after he became obsessed with C&H.
posted by bondcliff at 8:44 AM on December 23, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by bondcliff at 8:44 AM on December 23, 2016 [7 favorites]
Sno-Face!
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:54 AM on December 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:54 AM on December 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
A fellow locally builds these each year.
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:04 AM on December 23, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by Ashwagandha at 9:04 AM on December 23, 2016 [5 favorites]
Where did they get the yellow snow for the minions?
posted by TedW at 9:11 AM on December 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by TedW at 9:11 AM on December 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Darn, I was hoping for real, live snowmen.
posted by humboldt32 at 9:52 AM on December 23, 2016
posted by humboldt32 at 9:52 AM on December 23, 2016
My wife and I made a snowman last week and I don't know what happened* but it just started leaning farther and farther back. We straightened it once but that didn't solve the problem. We would regularly look out the window to see if it had fallen over yet. It was a 3 ball snowman and by yesterday morning it was more than 45 degrees back and the head was fully behind the bottom snow ball. It looked like it was trying to do the limbo or was drunk or perhaps both. Finally yesterday afternoon the head fell and then our kids apparently sat on and destroyed the head but the other two balls are still there so perhaps we will try to replace the head over the weekend.
* my theory is some combination of not adequately packing the snow while rolling the balls and heat radiating/reflecting off our house because it was right close to our front door.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 10:09 AM on December 23, 2016 [8 favorites]
* my theory is some combination of not adequately packing the snow while rolling the balls and heat radiating/reflecting off our house because it was right close to our front door.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 10:09 AM on December 23, 2016 [8 favorites]
The life of a snowman: frosty, brutish, and short.
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:27 AM on December 23, 2016 [13 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:27 AM on December 23, 2016 [13 favorites]
Related: President Obama apparently has a phobia about snowmen [real]
posted by Atom Eyes at 11:43 AM on December 23, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 11:43 AM on December 23, 2016 [6 favorites]
it just started leaning farther and farther back.
The photos at the link in Ashwagandha's post show something similar, and quite amusing.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:04 PM on December 23, 2016
The photos at the link in Ashwagandha's post show something similar, and quite amusing.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:04 PM on December 23, 2016
I live in an area that rarely sees enough snow to build anything resembling a snow creature. When I was young and did have the chance, the poor sad creations looked more like wads of dirty white snowcones clumped up with pine straw.
Our snow was wet and never really rolled well; one could always see the random tracks that the clump-ball took through the yard because the snow cover was only at most 1/2 inch thick. I just couldn't figure out how everyone made those frosty-snowman type creations.
C&H had nothing on the creepiness of our creatures. (At least ours melted quickly.)
posted by mightshould at 2:57 PM on December 23, 2016
Our snow was wet and never really rolled well; one could always see the random tracks that the clump-ball took through the yard because the snow cover was only at most 1/2 inch thick. I just couldn't figure out how everyone made those frosty-snowman type creations.
C&H had nothing on the creepiness of our creatures. (At least ours melted quickly.)
posted by mightshould at 2:57 PM on December 23, 2016
The page of C&H snowman strips has at the bottom: "This page was last updated December 23, 2006".
Ten years ago today. Who says there's nothing on the "old web" worth keeping?
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:20 PM on December 23, 2016 [4 favorites]
Ten years ago today. Who says there's nothing on the "old web" worth keeping?
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:20 PM on December 23, 2016 [4 favorites]
Where did they get the yellow snow
watch out where the huskies go
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 2:58 AM on December 24, 2016 [3 favorites]
watch out where the huskies go
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 2:58 AM on December 24, 2016 [3 favorites]
Here in the heart of snow country you would think snowmen would be plentiful but that isn't the case at all. Lake effect snow has little water--it is dry and fluffy and does not pack. You just can't build snowmen with it. Most kids in this area have never built one. Those pics made me wistful for the excellent building snow of my Pennsylvania youth.
posted by kinnakeet at 3:24 AM on December 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by kinnakeet at 3:24 AM on December 24, 2016 [2 favorites]
Bahahaha. The field full of mini-snowmen makes me want to cackle like a maniac.
Also dammit Atom Eyes. I was going to post the Obama snowman phobia thing. That had me in stitches earlier, it's just so ridiculous. (The snowman leering through the oval office window is ridiculous, not the phobia. I have a phobia about fermented Korean fish, and that's nothing to laugh at.)
posted by iffthen at 3:44 AM on December 24, 2016
Also dammit Atom Eyes. I was going to post the Obama snowman phobia thing. That had me in stitches earlier, it's just so ridiculous. (The snowman leering through the oval office window is ridiculous, not the phobia. I have a phobia about fermented Korean fish, and that's nothing to laugh at.)
posted by iffthen at 3:44 AM on December 24, 2016
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