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What Is It? for 3/11/12

Posted March 11, 2012 12:00 AM
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03/11/2012 1:37 AM

Marine Iguana, Galapagos Islands, the Tintoreras Isabela Island....

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03/11/2012 8:17 AM

It's Tommy Chong's guard lizard.

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03/11/2012 9:39 AM

Sadly, this looks like what I have to wake up to after the cats barf.
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03/12/2012 9:19 AM

You should try waking up to dog barf instead.....

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03/11/2012 3:24 PM

Looks like a scene from '1,000,000 Years BC'. Where's the photo of the young Raquel Welch in her cavegirl outfit?

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03/11/2012 3:55 PM

That movie is documented proof that women have been shaving their legs for over 1 million years.
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03/11/2012 7:02 PM

I found her a little further down the beach....

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03/11/2012 9:54 PM

Yeah, much easier on the eyes than that first photo.

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03/12/2012 11:38 AM

Now that would be a "Diving" Iguana..

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03/12/2012 12:17 AM

remember that song...."Wall of Voodoo" called 'mexican radio'?

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"....wish i was in Tijuana, eating barbecued Iguana.." mmmmm! garcon, s'il vous plait tout'de suite!
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03/12/2012 1:30 AM

Play the video...

http://www.last.fm/music/Wall+of+Voodoo/_/Mexican+Radio

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03/12/2012 7:15 AM

Galapagas work crew laying new inter-island data lines.

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03/12/2012 9:23 AM

Actually, it looks like "freeze dried" dog poop.......something you'd find in the backyard after all of the snow and ice has melted! ***AAAACCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!***

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03/12/2012 9:25 AM

Iguana on volcanic pumice?

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03/12/2012 6:44 PM

Looks like the middle of "Journey To The Center of The Earth" or the end of a "Godzilla" movie where Godzilla lost. Or a rope bridge from Swiss Family Robinson vs the Giant Lizzard Island......BWWWWWaaaaaaaaaa HAAAAAAA Haaaaaaaaa!

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03/13/2012 1:33 AM

Lake Wobegon, circa 2099AD. After the polar ice melts.
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03/13/2012 10:02 AM

Probably this guy's cousin which plopped down in front of me on a beach in Cuba last year....

Life is hard over there....

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03/13/2012 1:24 PM

Ecological spokes Iguana giving commentary on his littered strung beaches.

Wire, plastic and glass bottles? I hope he not in the National Park!

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03/14/2012 8:27 AM

This photo is from Hell, Grand Cayman. Pictured are black limestone formations and a blue iguana.
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