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Valentine’s Day may be over, but it’s never too late to enjoy absolutely precious pictures of animals kissing and enjoying their love for one another.
Time for another absolutely adorable video.
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Pun Racoon Is Hilariously Lame
Geekosystem has a funny collection of terrible jokes from Pun Racoon, the hip new kid in the meme universe. Be prepared for lots of eye rolling.
He won the Valentine’s Day Kissing Animals contest and will be receiving a free tee shirt courtesy of 604Republic. Zeon entered before we loosened up the entry requirements and even included an adorable photo of kissing marmots found on Sylvain Dudoit’s Flickr stream.
No one has entered on 604’s Flickr account still, so the first person to add their site and then tag any post with #kissingcritters will win a free shirt.
There are a ton of these on YouTube and they’re all equally hilarious.
Thank you Ever So Strange for teaching me something fascinating, yet again.
Isn’t he freaking adorable? Too bad it’s just photoshop.
Wrapping up our Valentine’s Day posts, Mental Floss has a great article detailing the strange role the flea once played in romantic poetry:
The most famous of these poems is The Flea, by John Donne. The poet’s narrator, struggling with a woman who wishes to hold on to her virginity, compares its loss to a fleabite: small and insignificant. When a flea actually does bite them both, he notes that their blood has mingled inside it. He just wants to mingle other bodily fluids anyway, so sex should mean neither sin nor shame nor loss of virginity at this point. Other writers imagined themselves as fleas exploring their lovers’ bodies, or bemoaned the fact that they were not fleas able to explore the secrets of a woman’s body without detection.
Fleas were symbols of love outside of poems, too. Some Frenchmen would pluck fleas from their lovers’ flesh and keep the insects as pets—it was a way to have a small piece of their beloved with them always. The fleas lived in tiny gold cages worn around the neck and were fed a daily meal of the man’s blood.
Here’s hoping you don’t get bit by any literal “love bugs” this year.
Image via Scurzuzu [Flickr]
And what better way to celebrate than with two animals kissing. Of course, if you like this one, be sure to check out our kissing animals photo and contest. And, if you love red pandas, then don’t miss this great Mental Floss article.