baby parts
The Times has taken up the age-old question of why we find things cute:
(I know! I've tried!)
(Also, the pedantry of referring to a :-) as "a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession" ... well, thank you, New York Times).
Funny how we're so susceptible to "anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof" ... yet a front lawn strewn with baby parts is rarely considered "cute."The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and so ends up including the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession.
(I know! I've tried!)
(Also, the pedantry of referring to a :-) as "a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession" ... well, thank you, New York Times).
posted by JenIsFamous at 1/04/2006 02:01:00 PM
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I knew my Achilles heel for soft round things with big eyes, like chinchillas (http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~ksk/photo/chinchilla-1.jpg) and whatever those Mercer Mayer animals are (http://www.familyfunsoftware.com/images/items/364/822.jpg) was some sort of genetic condition. The only person I know of who is as severely afflicted as I am is my brother David. We'll watch a video of kittens having misadventures and have to lie down for a while because we're too weak from the cuteness.
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