Comments on: Taxonomy Fail

By: utah beef

utah beef — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:46:12 +0000

this is very very humorous. boy, we need animal ID classes now?

By: cheesebrrgrr

cheesebrrgrr — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:51:14 +0000

Whoa. This happened in my neighborhood.

By: Fox 100000

Fox 100000 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:45:23 +0000

ha yea

By: cherokeekid

cherokeekid — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:12:12 +0000

if this wasnt a joke its a wonder that person didnt get rabies. Opossums (and its opossum, i dont care what people call it possum is wrong) are nocturnal and if this person found it in the day thats a sign of rabies. That is if they found it wondering around in the day.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:32:15 +0000

Actually. All of you possum opossum bickerers, Possum is the common name. Virginia Opossum can be a common name too but most refer to it as the “Formal Name”. Scientific name is Didelphis virginiana

By: kay

kay — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:39:24 +0000

is oppossum

By: cherokeekid

cherokeekid — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:10:22 +0000

No it’s opossum,a Virginia Opossum to be exact, (wow I am such a nerd anywho) a possum is a completely different animal.

By: kiki

kiki — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:52:24 +0000

no, it’s not. whoever put up those signs must have done so as a joke

By: MyChemicalApocalypse

MyChemicalApocalypse — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:56:22 +0000

it’s POSSUM. NOT opossum.

By: MyChemicalApocalypse

MyChemicalApocalypse — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:54:32 +0000

I’m sorry our possums aren’t pretty like yours.

By: MyChemicalApocalypse

MyChemicalApocalypse — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:48:50 +0000

it’s possum. not opossum. you just offended the possums. are you happy now?

By: Riko

Riko — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:22:02 +0000

the one in the vid is the original. the one on here is a copy

By: Riko

Riko — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:20:54 +0000

for anyone who hasnt seen it yet, heres a vid by the guy who made the poster. Its all the messages people left on his answering machine. funny as hell. i wish i had thought of it.

By: randomperson

randomperson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:39:34 +0000

This is on the best of Creg’s list.

By: cheeseboy

cheeseboy — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:52:21 +0000

fake because when you search possum on google images that image comes up
but funny points to the person :d

By: J00J00

J00J00 — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:54:17 +0000

lol found one of ‘em

By: frogman

frogman — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:02:55 +0000

Even Homer Simpson could tell that’s not a cat!

By: positron

positron — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:13:01 +0000

having the nuts to wrangle an opossum win

By: itemno530

itemno530 — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:31:28 +0000

it’s a photoshop job. Google “Possum” and you’ll probably find both those pictures

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:43:35 +0000

i like how its not a cat if you look close enough….AND IM A SERGEANT!!!!!

By: Kaze no Naka E

Kaze no Naka E — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:52:36 +0000

OMG! XD that’s hilarious. That actually happened somewhere very close to where I live recently. There was a sign that said Found Chihuahua and it was just a rat. Haha how embarassing.

By: myntee

myntee — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:38:45 +0000

is that a possum? is that what american possums look like? cos im australian and our possums are cute. that thing looks like a cross between a rat and ferret.
American possum fail

By: Arron Davies

Arron Davies — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:45:19 +0000

Looks like eat found. pretty funny.

By: person

person — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:09:54 +0000

oh god…
Reminds of one time my dad saw a dark shadow, assumed it was our cat and started calling it over to the house. It came closer…and closer…and then he slammed the door shut when he realized it was a skunk.

By: Blind

Blind — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:03:28 +0000

Louis CK reference WIN!!!

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:11:56 +0000

Very much correct… If not funny it’s also very.. very sad

By: falbala

falbala — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:50:52 +0000

the guy who post that is surly from south USA

By: Obuma

Obuma — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:03:23 +0000

No a martian coksuker!

By: matt shafer is dumbface

matt shafer is dumbface — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:19:18 +0000

you mean immigrant?

By: stfu

stfu — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:29:13 +0000

lol Dude, that’s definitely a possum, but they do look very similar.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:55:06 +0000

That’s a ferrit you idiots but LMFAO!!!!

By: Lambert

Lambert — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:04:38 +0000

It’s called photocopy my friend, probably the guy just did a Frankenstein in a plian white sheet and copied the thing like that, that’s why it looks darky in some zones.

By: mci

mci — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:05:35 +0000

Another thing you might want to try to wrap your pea-brain around is the fact that nobody would spend time in photoshop to create something like this when they could do the same fucking thing with a sheet of paper and a goddamn magic marker.

By: Contempt

Contempt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:37:01 +0000

Yeah, I definitely took out my keyboard with that one. Never drink and failblog.

By: »Gâmßît F.N. îXî«

»Gâmßît F.N. îXî« — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:29:50 +0000

so funny, i cried when i first realized what was the picture of.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:01:13 +0000

this is hilarious…really.
i laughed really hard the first, second, fourth, and every time after.
the third time i didn’t understand what was so funny about it and why i looked for it for so long. so i took a break and came back to it. still funny, regardless of whether or not it’s fake.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:46:30 +0000

“What’s funny is the idea”

-You, answering your own question.

By: Daryll Lamont Jenkems

Daryll Lamont Jenkems — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:03:27 +0000

very good 1

By: Raul

Raul — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:58:36 +0000

Seriously, even if you detect something in a picture that you can’t explain right away, the first thing to do should not be pointing your finger at the screen and shouting “PHOTOSHOP LOL”. Instead, just think about it for a moment. If you did, you should have come up with a few thoughts that make the Photoshop theory seem quite unlikely:
1. A picture on the back of the poster could affect the front like this without any photoshopping.
2. If only the text within the visible edges was added in Photoshop, the editor still would have had to find a poster that shows an opossum underneath the line “Cat found!” In that case, what in the blue hell did the text say on the original poster that made him edit it?
3. If the whole thing was photoshopped, we’re talking about someone who is pretty experienced. You can tell that because the pictures and text follow the curvature of the poster real smoothly. It would be pretty unlikely for someone with that experience to make an obvious mistake on an easy task like blurring edges.
4. As mentioned by someone else before – if he did make that mistake anyway, why on Earth would he have gone through all the trouble of editing instead of just printing out two pictures of an opossum, writing down the text and taking a friggin’ picture of it pinned on some tree trunk?

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:26:14 +0000

Yep, the phone number on the bottom of the Aussie one was a 1902 number for a $3.00 a minute “Talking clock” service.

By: Loh

Loh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:28 +0000

Funny, but PHOTOSHOP FAIL!
You can see a geometrical edges slighty darker than the surrounding paper than makes it obviously fail.
D:>
Funny tho.

By: Fractal

Fractal — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:37:43 +0000

Shows further taxonomy fail by the poster.

By: ashxcore

ashxcore — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:08:11 +0000

I laughed so hard snot came out my nose. And I’m crying.
This is WIN!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:56:02 +0000

You’re failing at pointing out a fail here, it’s a fucking JOKE

By: Kamikaze2Dodo

Kamikaze2Dodo — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:50:56 +0000

I don’t think it’s photoshopped, probably just some guy screwing around. the black square could just be something on the back, like someone used the paper again.

By: B rad

B rad — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:18:08 +0000

Thats messed up lol, my dad marked out the number.
He’s a highpo and they were driving around and saw
This lol. have a copy of it next to me haha.

By: person

person — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:54:51 +0000

this is not photoshoped!
this is the exact poster my friends dad put up

amazing!

By: playswithworms

playswithworms — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:00:46 +0000

I’m a wildlife rehabilitator and actually have approx. 30 orphaned opossums right now (they’re really very sweet as babies) – this just made my decade LMAO *frames poster and hangs on wall*

By: caps

caps — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:45:59 +0000

blog dick : this is hilarious i am going to post them in my neighborhood,
i know originality fail. wtfe.

By: Bastette

Bastette — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:46:02 +0000

But if it’s fake, it’s not funny (to me anyway). What’s funny is the idea that someone actually thought that was a cat. If nobody really made that mistake, then… so what?