The other day we were out walking the dog when we ran across this guy walking his dog, and we noticed this dog had both its eyes on one side of its head. So we asked the guy, "What kind of dog is THAT?" And he said, "It's a cross between a Pekingese and a Lhasa Apso. It's a Pekaso!"
Uhhh, OK. But then we thought, what would happen if you mixed, say, a warthog with a rhino? You'd get a whino! OK, actually, we didn't think that, but we did think of stealing it from the hi-larious folks down at The Washington Post's Style Invitational -- a weekly contest that recently asked readers to come up with hybrids of animals. Some of our favorite entries:
* Barbary ape x Chihuahua = barbarhuahua: an extremely inquisi-tive, persistent, noisy little bird.
* Emu x quail = email: a fast-flying bird that propagates rapidly, is monitored obsessively by humans and often carries a virus.
* Cicada x elephant = cicaphant: even after 17 years, it never forgets how nice you are.
* Monarch x woodchuck = princechuck: a pitiable drone that remains near its mother in its immature stage for years and years and years.
* Chicken x trout = chickenout: an animal that's afraid to cross the road.
* Cardinal x Shar-Pei = card-sharpei: one of the dogs playing poker.
* Wombat x elephant = womant: a creature that can lift many times her own weight but won't tell you what that weight is.
* Cuckoo x kinkajou = cuckookajou: otherwise known as The Walrus.
* Skunk x badgers = stinking badgers: we don't need one.
* Badgers x gnus = badgnus: travels fast.
* Scottish terrier x tapir = scotchtapir: uses sticky traps to ensnare its prey.
* Ewe x manatee = ewemanatee: a two-legged creature that elecits an exclamation of surprise when spotted, as in "Oh, the ewemanitee!"
* Lark x king salmon = larriking: an odd-looking bird that never stops squawking and doesn't know when to stop spawning.
* Monarch butterfly x sea anemone = arch enome: has PLANS for the coral reef, yes, grand plans indeed, mwahahahaha!
* Bumblebee x beaver = bumble-beaver: a creature busier than itself.
* Canary x ibis = canabis: a puffin that can fly really, really high.
* Condor x leech = condoleecha: a creature known to produce prolonged bleeding from whatever crosses its path.
Uhhh, OK. But then we thought, what would happen if you mixed, say, a warthog with a rhino? You'd get a whino! OK, actually, we didn't think that, but we did think of stealing it from the hi-larious folks down at The Washington Post's Style Invitational -- a weekly contest that recently asked readers to come up with hybrids of animals. Some of our favorite entries:
* Barbary ape x Chihuahua = barbarhuahua: an extremely inquisi-tive, persistent, noisy little bird.
* Emu x quail = email: a fast-flying bird that propagates rapidly, is monitored obsessively by humans and often carries a virus.
* Cicada x elephant = cicaphant: even after 17 years, it never forgets how nice you are.
* Monarch x woodchuck = princechuck: a pitiable drone that remains near its mother in its immature stage for years and years and years.
* Chicken x trout = chickenout: an animal that's afraid to cross the road.
* Cardinal x Shar-Pei = card-sharpei: one of the dogs playing poker.
* Wombat x elephant = womant: a creature that can lift many times her own weight but won't tell you what that weight is.
* Cuckoo x kinkajou = cuckookajou: otherwise known as The Walrus.
* Skunk x badgers = stinking badgers: we don't need one.
* Badgers x gnus = badgnus: travels fast.
* Scottish terrier x tapir = scotchtapir: uses sticky traps to ensnare its prey.
* Ewe x manatee = ewemanatee: a two-legged creature that elecits an exclamation of surprise when spotted, as in "Oh, the ewemanitee!"
* Lark x king salmon = larriking: an odd-looking bird that never stops squawking and doesn't know when to stop spawning.
* Monarch butterfly x sea anemone = arch enome: has PLANS for the coral reef, yes, grand plans indeed, mwahahahaha!
* Bumblebee x beaver = bumble-beaver: a creature busier than itself.
* Canary x ibis = canabis: a puffin that can fly really, really high.
* Condor x leech = condoleecha: a creature known to produce prolonged bleeding from whatever crosses its path.
