I’ve been loving all the Trek-related whimsicleness lately. I’m inspired. Perhaps I should add to my amigurumi repertoire w/some popular Starfleet officers…
I love this seller as well. I ordered her Meerkat nativity after seeing it on Etsy, and it came super fast, and was even more adorable than pictured. My sister totally loved them
(My cats also loved them too, before we learned to put them out of reach)
“I have a confession to make. I love this meerkat. And I love this seller. I realize you aren’t used to this level of warmth from me, but it’s Captain Picard Day.” -HK
Oh, Helen – to quote the Borg Queen: “Brave words. I’ve heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all etsy sellers.”
i just snagged him! i’m so excited. my uncle, an old school trekkie, always finds us the most incredibly weird and awesome gifts every year for xmas. this year, i’ve got him beat.
Patty, I’m a Cyborg Sapiens, too, except I was assimilated three years and three months ago. So I’ve had more time to learn just how much fun it is to never, ever be able to just walk through a metal detector again without setting the damn thing off. Sigh…
I will now have to figure out the best way to celebrate the rest of Captain Picard Day.
OK, I don’t think it’s all that darn cute. But I do love the seller.
Could it be that for once there is an etsy seller who (obviously) doesn’t take him/herself too seriously? I mean this is clearly a self spoofing joke, right?
Hey, me three, I’m a cyborg-sapiens as well. Both my legs. No cool flashing red lights though, unless I’m at airport security, and then woe to all who are in line behind me.
I took my eldest son to his first Star Trek Convention in Sacramento when he was 3. I listened to those well rounded vowels as Patrick Stewart spoke , and Jon watched, mesmerized to the whole hour or more Mr Stewart had the stage and took questions. Later that day as we were leaving Jon sat on my shoulders as we walked out the door and saw Mr. Stewart getting into his limo. “Goodbye Captain Picard!” my son yelled waving his arm wildly. He looked over and smiled and waved “Goodbye.” he…
Let me tell you sometime about the first convention I went to at age 18 when I ran across the hall in the middle of the night in my underwear to grab ice from the ice machine directly across the hall and the door to my hotel room slammed shut and locked just as Walter Koenig rounded the corner with me pulling on the door handle frantically.
Lets all go on the enterprise
And take a nice long trip!
There aren’t any bathrooms
On this here fancy ship
But they have a holodeck
Where you can do your duty;
Just stand up when the program ends
or you’ll fall on your patootie!
Helen – you need to pitch a Meerkat Starship stop-action show to Comedy Central. Considering how riveting meerkat’s in the wild were on Animal Planet, how much better would they be IN SPACE??!!
May 20, 2010 at 2:08 pm
OMG. Plz to be mine, now.
May 20, 2010 at 2:09 pm
“I love this meerkat. And I love this seller. I realize you aren’t used to this level of warmth from me…”
Time for a refill on the ole ‘scrip, eh, Helen?
(He IS cute though!)
May 20, 2010 at 2:09 pm
It really IS adorable.
Damn you, meerkat! You are the Snark Erasing Weasel of Doom!
May 20, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I’ve been loving all the Trek-related whimsicleness lately. I’m inspired. Perhaps I should add to my amigurumi repertoire w/some popular Starfleet officers…
May 20, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Huzzah for posting something good every once in a while!
Feel free to vote me down peeps, but the brain can only take so much awful before it can’t tell which is which anymore!!
May 20, 2010 at 2:15 pm
MY BRETHREN!!
I became a Cyborg Sapien one year, two months and two days ago. That red flashy thing is always the dead giveaway.
By the way, the walker I used during physical therapy and recovery was named Captain Jean-Luc Picard. And yes, I called him by name.
May 20, 2010 at 2:19 pm
I love this seller as well. I ordered her Meerkat nativity after seeing it on Etsy, and it came super fast, and was even more adorable than pictured. My sister totally loved them
(My cats also loved them too, before we learned to put them out of reach)
May 20, 2010 at 2:24 pm
“I have a confession to make. I love this meerkat. And I love this seller. I realize you aren’t used to this level of warmth from me, but it’s Captain Picard Day.” -HK
Oh, Helen – to quote the Borg Queen: “Brave words. I’ve heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all etsy sellers.”
OK, I may have made up that last bit…
May 20, 2010 at 2:27 pm
ok……. so here I am with a Star Wars link, I apologize, but when I saw him the other day he melted my heart. We don’t usually, as a rule, have warm fuzzy day so it went without a spotlight til now.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46723236/pattern-for-ewok-star-wars-mini?ref=sr_list_1&ga_search_query=ewok+crochet&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes=tags&includes=title
May 20, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Oh HK, you softy, together we warm.
May 20, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I love it too. We all have our soft spots.
May 20, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Cuteness!!!!
May 20, 2010 at 2:41 pm
#11 mtopia: And we see a lot of them right here!
May 20, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Thats not captain Picard, that LaCUTEis of Borg!!
I’m sorry. Oh God I’m sorry.
May 20, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I as well.
#9, zenika, those amigumi are ultra cute, and dammit, I had to buy the dragon pattern. Now I have to learn to crochet!
May 20, 2010 at 2:55 pm
The Borg are a close-knit band, especially as meerkats.
May 20, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I can’t lie, the meerkats are growing on me. I think I’m going soft.
May 20, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I am not a trekkie, but I can appreciate something beyond adorable when I see it.
Helen, did you purchase it, or someone else?
May 20, 2010 at 3:08 pm
i just snagged him! i’m so excited. my uncle, an old school trekkie, always finds us the most incredibly weird and awesome gifts every year for xmas. this year, i’ve got him beat.
May 20, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Soft spot=fontanel.
May 20, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Engage! Engage!!!
May 20, 2010 at 3:35 pm
No, I’m with you. It’s viciously adorable.
May 20, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I’ve had a soft squishy spot in my heart for those meerkats for a while now. My doctor says it’s nothing to worry about.
May 20, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Patty, I’m a Cyborg Sapiens, too, except I was assimilated three years and three months ago. So I’ve had more time to learn just how much fun it is to never, ever be able to just walk through a metal detector again without setting the damn thing off. Sigh…
I will now have to figure out the best way to celebrate the rest of Captain Picard Day.
May 20, 2010 at 3:55 pm
In honor of today’s festivities I thumbsed-up every poster in this thread. May you all live long and prosper.
May 20, 2010 at 3:57 pm
this is NOT helping my mad patrick stewart crush.
May 20, 2010 at 4:07 pm
How can Meerkats ever be bad?
May 20, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Meerkats yay omg!
/me am Bizarro Regretsy?
May 20, 2010 at 5:16 pm
OK, I don’t think it’s all that darn cute. But I do love the seller.
Could it be that for once there is an etsy seller who (obviously) doesn’t take him/herself too seriously? I mean this is clearly a self spoofing joke, right?
Right?
Please tell me this person isn’t serious.
May 20, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Now, a crocheted meerkat Vogon…well, it wouldn’t be cute, but it would be freakin’ hilarious!
RESISTANCE IS USELESS!!!
May 20, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Hey, me three, I’m a cyborg-sapiens as well. Both my legs. No cool flashing red lights though, unless I’m at airport security, and then woe to all who are in line behind me.
May 20, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Okay, I shouldn’t do this, but I have to–June 16th is actually Captain Picard Day.
That dog IS cute, btw.
May 20, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I took my eldest son to his first Star Trek Convention in Sacramento when he was 3. I listened to those well rounded vowels as Patrick Stewart spoke , and Jon watched, mesmerized to the whole hour or more Mr Stewart had the stage and took questions. Later that day as we were leaving Jon sat on my shoulders as we walked out the door and saw Mr. Stewart getting into his limo. “Goodbye Captain Picard!” my son yelled waving his arm wildly. He looked over and smiled and waved “Goodbye.” he…
May 20, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Let me tell you sometime about the first convention I went to at age 18 when I ran across the hall in the middle of the night in my underwear to grab ice from the ice machine directly across the hall and the door to my hotel room slammed shut and locked just as Walter Koenig rounded the corner with me pulling on the door handle frantically.
May 20, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Xante Misfits!!!
May 20, 2010 at 9:39 pm
For you, NedTheDeadInRed:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/geektastic_whimsy/Regretsy%20NSFW/vogon_borg.png
Resistance is futile. You will be forced to listen to bad poetry. As soon as the paperwork comes through.
May 20, 2010 at 9:58 pm
yes…the Zanti Misfits…an episode of Outer Limits still guarenteed to make you piss yourself while you sleep for like a month after.
May 20, 2010 at 11:21 pm
In my mind the worst of these bad overpriced Etsy sellers are just Ferengi merchants.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:KFsxevHR77gGSM:http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Ferengi_Closeup.jpg
May 20, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Thanks guys – first rule of acquisition, get regretsied! Live long and prosper…\\//__
May 21, 2010 at 12:29 am
OK, who went thru and thumbed down all the late comments? I thumbed them up so now we’re even.
May 21, 2010 at 9:00 am
Lets all go on the enterprise
And take a nice long trip!
There aren’t any bathrooms
On this here fancy ship
But they have a holodeck
Where you can do your duty;
Just stand up when the program ends
or you’ll fall on your patootie!
May 21, 2010 at 10:58 am
Helen – you need to pitch a Meerkat Starship stop-action show to Comedy Central. Considering how riveting meerkat’s in the wild were on Animal Planet, how much better would they be IN SPACE??!!
May 21, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I never have watched any Star Trek show. Ever. But that meerkat is the cutest thing in any universe.
May 21, 2010 at 5:33 pm
#42 AccidentalHousewife :
I think it should be on Adult Swim for maximum fuckery potential. Swearing Meerkats, I’d watch that.
May 21, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Geektastic, thank you thank you thank you.
Thy micturations are to me pure, unadulterated awesomeness.
May 21, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Yeah, ain’t I a pisser!
May 23, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Because it just had to be done:
AXOLOTL! Squee!
We now return to your regularly-scheduled fuckery.
May 23, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Ok I admit it I like her too.
May 23, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I want an army of these. Or better yet, a 3 foot tall one.
May 25, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Yay Nifty Knits
May 25, 2010 at 2:27 pm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/NiftyKnits/159524789304
I’m not Nifty herself, honest! Just a friend