The Wheedle

"The Wheedle on the Needle" was a book about a large, round, furry creature called the Wheedle who lived in the Northwest. The people of Seattle whistled, and it annoyed the Wheedle. He decided to climb the Space Needle and throw clouds over the sky to make it rain. Eventually the mayor of Seattle made the Wheedle a giant pair of ear muffs. "The Wheedle placed them over his ears, and smiled for the first time in years."

There's a Wheedle
On the Needle
I know just what
You're thinking
But if you look up
Late at night
You'll see
His red nose blinking.


From 1978-1985 The Wheedle was the official mascot of the Seattle Supersonics. He was a part of the team when they won the National Championship in 1979.

For years he was seen encased in ice in Key Arena. Following the relocation of the team to Oklahoma City, its whereabouts are unknown. Some believe he is going to bring rain down on Oklahoma City.

Gumby (Delicious)

Gumby is a clay green humanoid figure that was on TV for a span of 35 years!

His sidekick's name was Pokey. (Not Tanto) He mom was Gumba and his father was Gumbo. Gumby's nemeses were the Blockheads.

The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place.

The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Art Clokey's father in an old photograph. Art Clokey created Gumby based on a suggestion from his wife to do something with the Gingerbread Man.

In one adventure Gumby and his pals left their toyland-type setting and established themselves as a rock band.

What flavor is Gumby? Probably chocolate. Delicious.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuQgVCDj45E&feature=channel_page)

Why I love Girafees!

1.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

2.Giraffes are difficult and dangerous prey. The giraffe defends itself with a powerful kick. A single well-placed kick from an adult giraffe can shatter a lion's skull or break its spine.

3.The pace of the giraffe is an amble, though when pursued it can run extremely fast, up to 55 km/h.

4.The blood vessels in the lower legs are under great pressure (because of the weight of fluid pressing down on them). In other animals such pressure would force the blood out through the capillary walls; giraffes, however, have a very tight sheath of thick skin over their lower limbs which maintains high extravascular pressure in the same way as a pilot's g-suit.

5.The giraffe has one of the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal, which is between ten minutes and two hours in a 24-hour period, averaging 1.9 hours per day.

6.Courting males will emit loud coughs. Recent research has shown evidence that the animal communicates at an infrasound level.