This is the latest mania on the internet: a couple of llamas were filmed running free on the streets of Sun City, Arizona.
I don’t understand it, I just mindlessly parrot the meme.
If this prompts a run of llama jokes in the comments, I will regret it.
Rendezvous with Llamas?
Hardly surprising to see them on the llam.
Glad to see nobody got hurt. Their kicks can alpaca punch.
Ratbags with stretched out hands running in front of the llamas. What were they trying to do? What did they think the llamas would do? Recognize the signal and stop dead in their tracks?
Such a surrealistic image could only result in a “Dali llama” joke.
Aye!
Also, which thrice damned idiots thought it was a good idea to make the animal run into moving traffic?
You need to keep up with your internet manias. The real question is…are the llamas white and gold, or brown/black and blue?
On twitter, it was brought to my attention that these llamas broke free soon after the decision on net neutrality was publicized. Obviously, that can’t be a coincidence.
Also, I hope both llamas were treated equally as criminals, regardless of the colour of their fur.
Maybe I’m not seeing the funny side at the moment. But all I see are two very scared creatures in serious danger of hurting themselves and possibly others. Excuse me if I don’t laugh at their expense.
Since I know (spoiler alert) that no one was hurt, especially and including the llamas, I think it’s okay to be amused.
As for PZ, why should I have to choose between internet cats and internet llamas? Why can’t I have both? The internet certainly is big enough.
How about cat-llama hybrids. They could be llamas that hide in boxes. Or cats chasing llamas.
bassmike@9: Awww come on now. Yeah the llamas were probably scared. Yeah there were some close calls. But both llamas were captured safely. I REALLY doubt if it ended badly non-assholes would find it funny and we can chuckle at the situation while at the same time wondering what doofuses let them escape in the first place. In fact, I think when people say they are laughing at the llamas, what they really mean is they are laughing at the doofy humans being outwitted by a pair of llamas on live television.
I’m all for the superiority of llama intellect when faced with a bunch of scared, helpless humans who don’t know what to do.
It’s probably just me then.
At least they weren’t in pajamas!
La llama es un quadrupedo…
Worse would be lamas running wildly through the streets (even without pajamas)
Liking the way it was modern day cowboys that finally brought the llamas to a standstill. They really should have had some herd dogs as well.
Too late, everyone – cats riding llamas already exists.
I found a picture of a pomeranian-llama hybrid, so a Pllameranian
http://rebloggy.com/post/lol-illustration-art-funny-animals-haha-celebs-comedy-cats-humor-benedict-cumber/64975379182
Is that Sun City or SimCity?
Over 40 years after the filming of the Holy Grail, Earl J. and Mike Q. Llama are thwarted in their attempts to travel to Hollywood and jumpstart their film career.
Some of those people looked scared. Illamaphobia perhaps?
Am I the only one who thinks the black one looks more like an alpaca? Smaller, fuzzier about the head?
I wonder how they transported it, having caught it. I wouldn’t think a pickup would work well with a llama. My mother once drove an alpaca to someone’s house, a several-hour drive, with the alpaca lying down in the back of her car. She had to put a sign in the window reading “I’M AN ALPACA” because people were kind of staring. Llamas have a somewhat livelier disposition.
Ran, a llama?
*thinks*
Song!
Maybe this was supposed to be a parade for the great Pakistani poet.
If you see llamas where people are swimming, you shout: “Beware! There are llamas!”
Llama 1: We’re escaping tonight.
Llama 2: Alpaca bag.
* Stolen from Twitter.
Since llamas are grazers and would most likely respond to an occasional food treat, I’m amazed that not a single human pursuer thought to try to entice them with food. Back in our “horsey” days, when our appys decided to go for a neighborhood run, the first thing we did was to put some grain in a plastic bucket. A little shake of the bucket (held at arm’s length to one side) brought the wayward critters close enough to slip on a bridle, after which we just led them home.
From Jack Hanna: The llamas weren’t too worried about what happened if they got hurt in all their capering. They had O’llamaCare.
Actually, llamas are being used as herd “dogs” in areas where you have predators.
They called out more than two first-responder teams. It was a two-l-llama three-alarmer.
Strangely, when I first watched the video, I saw a black llama and a white llama, yet the second time I saw one blue and one gold…
Is there a llama equivalent of catnip?
I was afraid the cops would shoot the black llama for reaching for his waistband.
one of the things that always stands out in these confrontations of people and unexpected animals running around in cities is the usually total lack of understanding or familiarity with animals. It illustrates just how out of touch we have become with the natural world.
As Paul indicated by contrast.
uncle frogy
The one-L lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-L llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pyjama
There isn’t any
Three-L lllama.
–Ogden Nash
Yes, but did they hear the way the orange slayed the rake? Are they made of lemon juice?
Schroedinger’s Llamas: their color depends on the person who observed them.
Those llamas were pining for the fjords. Or whatever it is that llamas pine for.
Lady Mondegreen:
Ogden Nash was wrong. A three-L-llama is a fire in Boston.
@41: In a volume of Ogden Nash I cannot locate on short notice (our household library being of Pratchettian proportions and organization, if not quite the same degree of magical hazard), there is a footnote to that poem, in which the author laments that he has since been informed “that there is a type of conflagration known as a ‘three-alarmer'”.
Eamon @ 21- Sun City, on the west side of Phoenix, is where all the old Minnesotans come to die. After they thaw out….
Cuidado.
@43: Oh, c’mon — I can’t have been the only person playing that game, about 20 years ago.
bassmike #14
It’s not just you.
That whole thing was completely repulsive.
Fucking city people.
Somewhat baffled by the cynicism in this thread, and I am generally cynical in many areas.
That bit at 1:20 ish, where the black one ran full-tilt into the chain-link fence
yeah
hilarious
Oh gad, I cringed every time they ran in between cars.
Hilarious? Whatever butters your muffin, but I was referring more to the fact that yourself and some others were complaining about ‘fucking city folk’ not being very good with livestock, and not having a bucket of grain handy. Why on earth would you expect that? ‘Out of touch with the natural world’? Jesus christ, some people!
This fucking country lad found it rather amusing. Having done much the same with a sheep, I can attest it’s scary as hell at the time, but once it’s all over, yeah, laughs are had.
Here’s the theme song for this thread.