Get yourself a giant panda!

In pondering a New Year Resolution for 2009, Troutgirl quoted Anne Lamott’s Hard Laughter to me…

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life’s work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you’d start to laugh; you’d be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

Pandas as proof of intelligent design!

Discover Magazine says,

The panda’s survival proves the existence of God. How is it, they ask, that such a species could have “evolved” to be so poorly suited for survival and could have lasted these “alleged” tens of thousands of years without a little help from a higher power?

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So it’s true: Pandas did not evolve… in zoos. They evolved to find their own food and seek out their mates in dense bamboo forests after being raised by their real mothers, not by zookeepers. The panda’s weaknesses in today’s world—from its failure to reproduce in captivity to its yawn-inspiring lifestyle—is a product of its natural history, not a malicious joke of an intelligent designer.

Panda love is the sweetest love!

The desire to hug is mutual. Before I die, I want to hug a panda.

Pandas spend 10 hours a day eating!

Whew.

Panda search engine!

What the world needs now is a panda search engine. Pandoogle, if you will.

Thank you, Victoria.

Giant pandas safe after earthquake! What about the babies?

They look ok to me. Om nom.

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Update, 6/12. Oh no, panda funeral: “Mao Mao’s keeper, He Changgui, stepped forward, crying, and placed two apples and a piece of bread by the covered grave.”

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Update, 6/25. Coco Wang tells the story.

Ooooh! I’m a scary baby panda!

lolpandas!

Thanks ichc for the lolpandas.

Haikoo Zoo!

I am fond of beverages and pandas.

It’s doubly fun to combine the two…

Click to visit my Haikoo^SM Zoo pet, Gifting Firefox, on Facebook!

I could spend half my day sending Booze Mail and playing with pets in Haikoo Zoo. And playing Scrabulous, of course.

Panda prison break!

Tree panda!

A panda on the top of a tree at China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Wolong. Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda’s earliest known ancestor, a “pygmy-sized” bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released Monday.(AFP/Liu Jin)

Looking down from heaven!

Thanks, wandering panda.