Charlotte and Tealeaf, two rescued wombats at Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary, are content to sleep in their crate while they wait for their bottles — until they notice those bottles are an unforgivable ten minutes late! That’s when the pair decide to make a crate escape to see what’s taking so long!
Just put them in the cooler with a baseball, crate escape indeed.
Was this reference too obscure? Too dated? Does no one remember Steve McQueen as the “Cooler King” in “The Great Escape”?
Not too dated at all! I’ve been in rehearsal all day, just saw this and came to say “Crate Escape *snerk*”!
Also, I not only want a wombat, I want a wombat named Tealeaf.
Thank you! I was beginning to think I was on the wrong planet. Rehearsal? Acting, or singing, or dancing, or magic tricks? Or all at the same time? May a wombat named Tealeaf arrive on your doorstep, in a crate. 🙂
Now I want to see a wombat on a motorbike.
While we’re on the subject of wombats, I recently noticed that a wombat is mentioned in Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market”. Her brother, the artist/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, kept a pet wombat at his home in London, but I was startled to read that “Rossetti also used wombats as tools of seduction” (https://frieze.com/article/picture-piece-rossetti-and-wombat). The mind boggles…According to the above website:
“Falling madly in love with Jane Morris, he caricatured her in the guise of a suffering Pre-Raphaelite saint, with her husband depicted as a fuzzy wombat on a leash. Sojourning in Scotland, Rossetti wrote to her with news of his latest purchase:
Oh how the family affections combat
Within this heart, and each hour
flings a bomb at
My burning soul! Neither from owl nor
from bat
Can peace be gained until I clasp
my wombat.”
Well, who DOESN’T want to clasp a wombat?
Some months ago, I posted a link on the Pre Raphaelites and wombats. Will see if I can find it again.
Aha! That’s where I learned about Rossetti and his wombat! The mind boggles indeed.
Found it!
https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/01/10/how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat/
I’m sure you will surprised to learn that I was unable to find you a wombat on a motorbike (except one cartoon wombat but the image link isn’t one that would embed properly). I did, however, learn that there is a Hodaka motorcycle called the Combat Wombat.
Before I came to love wombats, I used to refer to the video game Mortal Combat as Mortal Wombat.
We’ve seen two “crate” posts in the last week, and I came across Stephen King’s “Creepshow” on Youtube recently. Enjoy! (trigger warning, Stephen King writes horror scripts. If you’re into that kind of thing, this is a great one, with Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver and Adrienne Barbeau. All of the original episodes have been uploaded.)
Fun facts: Pandora actually opened a jar, not a box. The 16th-century scholar Desiderius Erasmus mistranslated from the Greek (damn him) and the reference has been wrong ever since.
Love these wigglebutts!
Some Australians came through work today on a tour and I asked them to say hi to the wombats for me. They promised to do so if they could find any.
wait, doesn’t Pandora open a pyxis (a covered box made of clay, as for keeping jewelry in) ? or is it a pithos (a clay storage jar like for keeping wine or grain)? it’s been so long since I taught Women in Antiquity. but my students wrote and performed their own Pandora play in English that was really memorable (Pandora and Aphrodite were played by nearly identical sisters so the older one could really say “she got her beauty from me!” )
I misread that as Wombats in Antiquity.
There’s a course I would take.