#toast the flemish giant

[general-george-washington]

Don't want another dwarf rabbit after Toast. You can easily buy a new Zealand or Flemish giant off craigslist for like 25 bucks. I want a rabbit the size of my Cat

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.19

Beer Birthdays

Frederick Metz (1832)

John Hinchliffe (1850)

Josephus Petrus Van Ginderachter (1889)

Esmond Bulmer (cider maker; 1935)

Sabine Weyermann (1958)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Andre the Giant; wrestler, actor (1946)

Lily Cole; model, actor (1988)

Edward de Bono; inventor, writer, physician (1933)

Jim Lehrer; television journalist (1934)

Pete Townsend; rock guitarist, songwriter (1945)

Famous Birthdays

Kemel Ataturk; Turkish politician, menagerie owner (1881)

Bruce Bennett; actor (1906)

Nora Ephron; writer (1941)

James Fox actor (1939)

Jessica Fox; actor (1983)

Lorraine Hansberry; playwright (1930)

Johns Hopkins; philanthropist (1795)

Grace Jones; pop singer, actor (1952)

Jacob Jordaens; Flemish painter (1593)

Nancy Kwan; actor (1939)

Peter Mayhew; actor, comedian, "Chewbacca" (1944)

Nellie Melba; Australian opera singer, toast inventor (1861)

Sarah Peale; artist (1800)

Jodi Picoult; writer (1966)

Joey Ramone; rock singer (1952)

Tom Scott; saxophonist (1948)

Martyn Ware; pop keyboardist (1956)

Victoria Wood; comedian (1953)

Malcolm X; activist (1925)

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piggy + tea rose?? 🫶

thank you for asking 💖

piggy - dream pet?

bro i’m almost a veterinarian how do i chose just one 😭

sea otter 🦦 for for like a wild one

and normal? flemish giant rabbit 🐰

tea rose - fav drink?

toasted vanilla latte w extra shot espresso ☕️

orrrrr a nice spiced winter cider!

ask game!!

[bonefarm]

Bun in the office what crimes will he commit.

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Flip and Toast

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vincedakota replied to your post “i am excellent and naming animals and you should ask me what your...”

i cant send asks and this is completely unrelated but if you want to crunch an hour or two. whats your opinion of Every Arba Breed

you asked for it get ready for some Unpopular Onions

american: have doofy faces but i like em a lot.  tried to get into whites several years ago but breeders kept ghosting me :(  not as rare as ppl think but nobody likes whites it’s only blues at shows.

american chinchilla:  bruh why do we have like three whole chinchilla breeds i don’t like chins that much in general why do we need three whole breeds of just chinchilla

american fuzzy lop:  all the worst parts of lionheads and holland lops in one little package

american sable:  never seen one in real life but i want to touch

argente brun:  don’t understand why the argentes aren’t more popular, look at ‘em.  they’re cool as heck.  give me one.

belgian hare:  do you love suffering?  get a hare

beveren:  i think they’re ugly sorry.  suddenly got rly popular and idk why.  remind me of basset hounds but with blue eyes.

blanc de hotot:  absolute showstoppers.  the supermodel of rabbits.  why can’t i have any someone please give me a hotot i will pay lots of money

britannia petite:  genuinely make me uncomfortable to look at.  the big eyes and tiny body...they are gremlins and i do not like them

californian:  boring but a good meat rabbit.  what can i say they have a niche and are good at it

cavies:  are not rabbits and make bad noises

champagne d’argent:  the only breed i ever seen enter fur shows here lol.  i wanna work with them to make silvery every other breed :)

checkered giant:  Big Angery.  only breed i’ve consistently been told not to ask to pet.

cinnamon:  really cool lookin rabbits but every feral in issaquah looks just like ‘em so either a cin breeder had an oopsie or they aren’t that rare

creme d’argent:  i’ve only seen ONE irl and it was like buttered toast.  i love them.  someone please breed them.

dutch:  the only rabbit allowed to be visibly VM (hotots are vm too but you can’t really tell.)  really cute little meat bricks.  the holstein of rabbits, in that when i think of a generic rabbit i think of a dutch.

dwarf hotot:  more popular than their commercial sized cousins and honestly it’s a RIGHT SHAME.

english angora:  that is a mop.  apparently betty chu is driving people out of the breed cos hers are all too good :’)  the one we have is bonkers and i don’t like him.

english lop:  hardly should be able to call themselves lops.  sure they got big ears (which i don’t like) but to me a lop should have a brick face and they don’t and it makes me sad.

english spot:  suuuper attractive animals, esp the goldens.  if i hated myself enough to get into a running breed i would go for english i think.

flemish giant:  BIG.  FRICKIN.  EARS.  my husband’s fav breed.  he likes the red ones.  i have three growing out in my yard rn and they’re so cute.

florida white:  for some reason they are becoming really popular with homesteaders?  but i have never seen one in real life.  really just kind of boring but apparently good for meats.

french angora:  i don’t like anything i have to groom

french lop:  BIG.  FLOPPY.  EARS.  BIG.  POTATO.  FACE.  truly the epitome of a lop.  can’t wait til i get mine.

giant angora:  ah yes let’s make MORE wool to groom no thanks

giant chinchilla:  this is a chin just Big.  boring, next

harlequin:  fan favourite of my fur clients.  if you hate yourself, show these.  ofc i’m a sucker for calico things so i have a bunch but do you see me putting them on a show table?  no.

havana:  very good little dudes.  husband likes the black ones.  i can only justify one or two itty bitty breeds so i don’t have any.

himalayan:  the stupidest looking animal i have ever laid eyes on and i love them so much.  they spark immense joy.  also very very sweet if my two are anything to go by.

holland lop:  oversaturated in both pet and show circles.  there’s just so many.  the holland rings take HOURS to get through at shows.  they are very cute but so far in general their personalities leave something to be desired.

jersey wooly:  i hear they’re little demons but other than that i don’t know much about em

lilac:  it’s a rabbit, but purple!  never seen one in person.

lionhead:  literally every byb pet rabbit is mixed with a lionhead.  my first rabbit was a lionhead and he’s evil so there’s that.

mini lop:  my first breeding rabbits were mini lops and they have a special place in my heart.  but i went with french over minis cos Big Chungus.

mini rex:  take a rex and make it small and able to produce peanuts.  5/10 not enough fur

mini satin:  i have only ever handled one and it was enough for me!  awful awful little creatures but very nice fur.

netherland dwarf:  disgOSTINgly cute but oversaturated and also dwarfs.  sorry.

new zealand:  yep that’s a rabbit

palomino:  it’s a rabbit but YELLOW.  apparently the breed joel salatin breeds but his are all vm-y and he THROWS AWAY THE FURS i hate it.  idk they’re cute i guess.

polish:  it’s small alright

rex:  supermodel of rabbits but wow is showing them the worst.  rex people think they’re better than everyone else and it’s very tiring.  so good for touching though.  pelts sell for good prices.

rhinelander:  very good 10/10 if they weren’t hard to find i’d consider them as well if i were gonna go for a runner

satin:  considered getting into them but decided not to.  the white ones look like they peed on themselves :(

satin angora: we have one and i have no complaints except that it makes wool

silver: someone apparently breeds them around here and it’s neat that chestnut is a colour they come in considering every other silver breed is like NO AGOUTI ONLY SELF

silver fox:  this is the rabbit literally every homesteader has now and i don’t get it.  they’re pretty and big but what a waste of good pelts by raising them for meat only.  anyway they only come in one official colour (with the three general self colours in COD) so i find them boring otherwise.  i can’t tell ours apart at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

silver martin:  never seen one in person but they’re pretty.  silver fox ppl hate them cos they “don’t even have a real silvering gene.  they’re just chinchilla otters.”

standard chinchilla:  WHY DO WE HAVE THREE OF THESE

tan:  smaller than anticipated, but very pretty.  why don’t more breeds have this colour.  what even IS this colour.  is it related to otter?  IS it otter just without white?  i’m intrigued

thrianta:  photos really do not do that colour justice.  kinda boring cos they only come in red but boy is it RED.

velveteen lop:  technically still in COD but my opinion is the same as english lop.  i don’t like their faces or the ears, sorry.

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lucky!!!

Full Name: Lucky CloverGender and Sexuality: Cis Male, Heteroflexiable.Pronouns: He/HimEthnicity/Species: Caucasian/Flemish Giant RabbitBirthplace and Birthdate: Probably the Brrrgh. April 13th.Guilty Pleasures: Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with toasted bread.Phobias: Pyrophobia, Phonophobia.What They Would Be Famous For: What They Would Get Arrested For: Homicide. OC You Ship Them With: N/AOC Most Likely To Murder Them: Wacky.Favorite Movie/Book Genre: ComedyLeast Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: The Chosen OneTalents and/or Powers: He can play guitar and sing!Why Someone Might Love Them: He’s a total hunk. He’s bitter but has generally good intentions.Why Someone Might Hate Them: He kicked their ass. He doesn’t like them thus shows it. How They Change: He’s gone from depressed loner to less depressed, more happy and fun-loving loner.Why You Love Them: First toonblr oc. Also I love him and he’s grown so much.

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Released this week, Odell announces Flemish Giant Flemish-style Sour Ale

image courtesy Odell Brewing Company

Press Release

Fort Collins, CO. - On March 27, 2017 Odell Brewing will release Flemish Giant, a new 750ml single run barrel aged Flanders-Style Sour Red Ale.

Marking the second release of the 2017 Cellar Series and coming in at 6.5%, Flemish Giant begins with notes of tart ruby red grapefruit and cherry, finishing with sweet raisin and fig.

“At Odell Brewing, we often brew hop forward styles and this beer presented an opportunity to explore a malt forward profile that let the oak barrels take center stage,” said COO, Brendan McGivney. He added, “Blending is an important part of our process and we used about 60 different barrels to bring this beer together. Woodcut toasted oak barrels, Bourbon barrels, rum barrels, and chardonnay barrels all contribute different layers and depth to the final beer.”

The name Flemish Giant pays tribute to a curious breed of rabbit which can grow up to 20 lbs. Native to Belgium, the birthplace of the Flanders-Style Sour Red Ale, the Flemish Giant dates back to the 16th century.

Odell is planning six Cellar Series releases for 2017, each available for a limited time in single 750ml bottles across Odell’s 14-state distribution footprint.

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About Odell Brewing - Odell Brewing is an independent, family and employee owned regional craft brewery. Since 1989, the culture of family and collaboration has thrived, fostering a brewery full of beer-centric people. It is this passion for beer that inspires Odell Brewing to create quality, hand-crafted and innovative brews. Odell Brewing is committed to providing exceptional service to its customers while making positive contributions to their co-workers and community through its outreach and charitable giving programs. Odell Brewing was named the “Best Medium Sized Company to Work For” in Colorado in 2015 and is the 27th largest craft brewery in the United States.

from The Northwest Beer Guide http://bit.ly/2oceBK4

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9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums

In this day and age, there’s no shortage of specialized museums. From the weird to the whimsical, and including everything from funerary paraphernalia and ancient relics to scientific objects and erotica (with a fair bit of fakery thrown in), you can find a collection dedicated to just about any curiosity imaginable. We’ve rounded up nine of the world’s most offbeat institutions that offer a unique, if often wholly unexpected, visitor experience.

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

Paris, France

Salon de Compagnie. © Sophie Lloyd. Courtesy of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.

One might think that a museum devoted to hunting and nature housed in an 18th-century aristocratic residence on Paris’s Right Bank would be stuffy and rather ethically contentious. In the case of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, however, you’d be wrong. Yes, it’s filled with a requisite, perhaps even excessive, amount of taxidermy—including a sleeping fox perched on an ornately upholstered chair and a giant animatronic bear that periodically emits a motion-activated roar—and enough ornate crossbows and polished guns to arm a small, posh militia. But the museum takes as its mission the promulgation of respectful hunting practices and ecological preservation.

The history and culture of European hunting is revealed through Renaissance-era artifacts and objects, Flemish master paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel, and contemporary works and installations by the likes of Jeff Koons, Jan Fabre, and Mark Dion. There’s no want for whimsy, either, given the entire room dedicated to unicorns and their undeniable existence as proven by 17th-century scholars.

Museum of World Funeral Culture

Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia

There is perhaps no better place to contemplate one’s mortality than the furthest reaches of Russia, where a deathly cold breeze blows across Siberia nearly year-round. In the region’s unofficial capital of Novosibirsk, you’ll also find one of the only museums in the world devoted to the exploration of global funerary practices, the Museum of World Funeral Culture.

Its collection boasts thousands of paintings, drawings, photographs, engravings, and objects exploring themes of death and, of course, dead people. Exhibitions include a stylish showcase of hundreds of mourning dresses dating from as far back as the 14th century and the architecture of 19th-century cemeteries, crosses, and tombstones. But the museum is just one part of owner Sergei Yakushin’s greater Disneyland of death, which also comprises a factory that produces “mourning industry” wares, displays of urns, caskets, model hearses, a memorial park and research library, and a crematorium he continues to own and operate. The morbidly delightful compound also plays host to Necropolis — Tanexpo, an annual fair of ceremonial rites and services.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

Los Angeles, California

Rooftop Garden and Colonnade at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Courtesy of MJT.

If you’re confused by the name of this museum, you are not alone; few know exactly what Jurassic technology is, if it in fact refers to anything at all. The elusively named institution began as a traveling museum in 1984, founded by artist and designer David Hildebrand Wilson and his wife, Diana, before taking root in an unassuming building in Culver City, L.A., in 1988. It functions less as a place to showcase their idiosyncratic collection of historical, ethnographic, and art objects, and more as an experimental space to explore the human practice of collecting.

It’s unclear how often its exhibitions change, if ever, but long-standing visitor favorites include “Garden of Eden on Wheels: Selected Collections from Los Angeles Area Mobile Home and Trailer Parks”—a display of mobile home dioramas, snapshots, and objects that explore the history of movable homes—and a series of stylish portraits of dogs that participated in the Soviet Space Program between 1959 and 1961.

If you can’t make it to L.A. to experience its uniqueness in person, you can read about it in the writer Lawrence Weschler’s book devoted to the peculiar and fascinating collection, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (1995).

Museum of Old and New Art

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania is known to many as the home of Taz from the Looney Tunes cartoons, but this island state off the southern tip of Australia is home to another character who marches to the beat of his own loony tune—David Walsh, professional gambler, eccentric multimillionaire, and founder of the equally unconventional Museum of Old and New Art.

In his three-floor subterranean museum, which opened in 2011, you can find objects ranging from Ancient Egyptian mummies to contemporary French artist Christian Boltanski’s 2010 video piece The Life of C.B., a 24-hour live feed of his suburban Paris studio streamed for a monthly subscription fee that is paid by Walsh. There’s no real rhyme or reason to this collection except for the whims and fancies of its founder. Interests that evidently include defecation if Stephen J Shanabrook’s suicide-bomber entrails cast in chocolate and Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca Professional (2010), also referred to as the “shit machine,” are any indication.

Miho Museum

Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Courtesy of MIHO.

Surreptitiously nestled in a densely forested nature preserve just southeast of Kyoto (and currently closed through March 9, 2018), the Miho Museum is a work of edificial genius by I.M. Pei, the same architect who designed the Louvre’s iconic glass pyramid. Most of the Miho building sits below ground, but the rest of its streamlined glass, steel, and limestone looks like it’s been wrought directly from the mountaintop on which it sits.

This unexpected architectural gem houses a collection of Western and Asian antiquities and artworks such as Roman wall paintings from Pompeii, as well as one of the largest 2nd-century Gandhara standing buddha statues known to exist. Most of the collection was acquired within just six years by Mihoko Koyama, the heiress to the Japanese textile company, Toyobo, and founder of her own religion known as Shinji Shūmeikai, the central tenet of which is spiritual healing through art.

“We don’t necessarily intend to show objects art-historically or even stylistically,” says Miho curator Inagaki Hajime, who explained that the aim of the collection is to posit the works in the collection as part of a psychohistory of humankind. “In this way, we have a difficult obligation or responsibility to extract each object’s spirituality.” Another central pillar of Koyama’s faith? The restoration of nature’s balance through the construction of beautiful buildings in far-flung locations.

Museo della Frutta

Turin, Italy

The golden age of fake-fruit modeling ended with the passing, in 1889, of Francesco Garnier Valletti, whose collection of hundreds of artificial apples, pears, peaches, plums, and grapes make up the collection of Turin’s Museum of Fruit. In his time, Garnier Valletti was considered a virtuoso in the field of pomological modeling—the practice of which had a rich history in Italy, beginning in Tuscany in the 18th century.

He was known for his innovative use of wax and ash to create fruits that were appropriately weighted as if ripe with juice and slightly tender to the touch. He also employed a crushed-wool technique to emulate the fuzz on stone fruits like peaches and apricots. The museum, however, is more than just an evergreen orchard—the painstakingly modeled and taxonomically identified collection of fake fruit offers a comprehensive history of agricultural development in Italy and the effects of human interference into biodiversity.

Spritmuseum

Stockholm, Sweden

Photo by Jonas Lindström. Courtesy of Spiritmuseum.

Sweden has a complicated relationship to drinking due to its monopolistic state-run Systembolaget chain of liquor stores—the country’s only legal retail purveyors of spirits with over 3.5 percent alcohol content—which perhaps makes it an unlikely place to find a museum devoted to booze. But at Stockholm’s Spritmuseum, drinking reaches a level of near-fetishization.

Here you can learn about the history, consumption and distribution norms, food pairings, and traditional songs associated with many a fine tipple. Step into the “hangover room” to experience the other side of a debaucherous night, where harsh lights, loud music, and off-kilter seating make nauseating additions to a first-person film that follows a guy on a bender. The museum also plays host to the Absolut Art Collection, comprised of the 850 artworks that the Swedish vodka brand commissioned of its iconic bottle over the years, including those by artists George Rodrigue and David Shrigley.

(Exactly where this million-dollar marketing idea came from is the subject of dispute, according to Mia Sundberg, curator of the Absolut Art Collection, but most believe it started with Andy Warhol, who presented the company with a painted bottle in the spring of 1986 that ultimately ran as an ad in Interview magazine.)

World Erotic Art Museum

Miami Beach, Florida

Naomi Wilzig was posthumously quoted in her 2015 Miami Herald obituary as having told the paper in 2002, “I’m a crusader to get John Q. Public to accept that erotic art is out there. We accept violence, but we go crazy over the idea of a nude body.” The collector, who reportedly grew up in a conservative Jewish family and whose banker husband never much cared for her taste in art, successfully launched this crusade with her World Erotic Art Museum in 2005.

It’s comprised of roughly 4,000 artworks that evoke the pleasure and pain of love by creatives ranging from little-known folk artists to big names like Rembrandt, Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Bunny Yeager. The museum’s programming foregrounds sex-positive inclusivity, and its current exhibition, “Kinsey Institute: Untold Stories,” gives voice to perspectives on sex that have largely been excluded from mainstream dialogue.

Additionally, a new gallery focuses on the collection and practice of Magnus Hirschfeld, a German sex researcher whose art and library faced Nazi scrutiny (and destruction) in 1933.

Musei di Palazzo Poggi, Obstetrical Museum

Bologna, Italy

Wax wombs at the Museo di Palazzo Poggi Anatomy & Obstetrics. Photo by Geoffrey Rockwell, via Flickr.

One of several curious collections found in the opulent 16th-century Poggi Palace (now part of the University of Bologna), the museum’s selection of anatomical models and surgical instruments has some of the finest waxworks and rarest medical tools in the world. It was amassed at the personal expense of an 18th-century Bolognese doctor, Giovanni Antonio Galli, with the intention of educating midwives in childbirth since, as women, they were excluded from medical schools and relied largely on anecdotal information about birthing—as well as a fair bit of trial and error. Students could practice delivering fetuses from a life-sized uterus, a highlight of the collection.

The museum is also home to a wax self-portrait by 18th-century anatomical sculptor and professor Anna Morandi Manzolini and Venerina (c. 1782), a reclining Venus figure by sculptor Clemente Susini, complete with removable organs.

from Artsy News

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Birthdays 5.19

Beer Birthdays

Frederick Metz (1832)

John Hinchliffe (1850)

Josephus Petrus Van Ginderachter (1889)

Esmond Bulmer (cider maker; 1935)

Sabine Weyermann (1958)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Andre the Giant; wrestler, actor (1946)

Lily Cole; model, actor (1988)

Edward de Bono; inventor, writer, physician (1933)

Jim Lehrer; television journalist (1934)

Pete Townsend; rock guitarist, songwriter (1945)

Famous Birthdays

Kemel Ataturk; Turkish politician, menagerie owner (1881)

Bruce Bennett; actor (1906)

Nora Ephron; writer (1941)

James Fox actor (1939)

Jessica Fox; actor (1983)

Lorraine Hansberry; playwright (1930)

Johns Hopkins; philanthropist (1795)

Grace Jones; pop singer, actor (1952)

Jacob Jordaens; Flemish painter (1593)

Nancy Kwan; actor (1939)

Peter Mayhew; actor, comedian, "Chewbacca" (1944)

Nellie Melba; Australian opera singer, toast inventor (1861)

Sarah Peale; artist (1800)

Jodi Picoult; writer (1966)

Joey Ramone; rock singer (1952)

Tom Scott; saxophonist (1948)

Martyn Ware; pop keyboardist (1956)

Victoria Wood; comedian (1953)

Malcolm X; activist (1925)

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Toast, king of spring

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Snuggle Bunny

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Toast & his dad

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Pretty Boy

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BAT TOAST

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Diyah and Toast

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