Top 10 Animals That Don’t Have Asses

Dec. 7, 2010

By Tao Lin info

Tao Lin is a writer living in Manhattan, NY.

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2.*TIE* HAMSTER | OCEAN SUNFISH *TIE*

The Hamster and the Ocean Sunfish—two otherwise almost perfectly disparate animals—don’t have asses in the same manner: their heads are also their bodies. Efforts at combining these powerfully assless animals into one land-sea “powerhouse” have not advanced beyond the stage represented by this sentence. In late-2009 a group of people on Tumblr, in conjunction with a group of people who post regularly on an “abandoned” Bright Eyes messageboard, noticing that assless animals often have neutral facial expressions and humans often have non-neutral facial expressions, especially those with large or otherwise notable asses, collaboratedly speculated on a connection between facial expressions and asses to profitably viral results (I’m referring to the arguably 4D Venn diagram that was reblogged 498 times and “liked” 2453 times in a 72-hour period and then sold in simplified form on shirts and tote bags and posters and stickers).

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  • Jordancastroisthegoverner

    fantastic

  • wackomet

    fant-ass-tic

  • http://twitter.com/JulianIsGo Julian Alexander

    The Blue Whale with the upset of the year. Didn't see it coming at all. I lost 30 dollars thanks.

  • Henry Elder

    so good

  • http://richardchiem.wordpress.com richardchiem

    wow, sweet.

  • http://twitter.com/jamesyeh James Yeh

    i liked this

  • http://twitter.com/t_baugh Travis Baugh

    read this and started thinking about what defines an “ass.” seems like a hamster would have an “ass.”

  • http://hbgwhem.tumblr.com/ hbgwhem.tumblr.com

    I feel like Ke$ha not being on the list was a major oversight. Tried to comfort myself by saying, “Ke$ha is a mammal, not an animal”, but then I performed a fact checking wiki search and found that her debut album was called “Animal” in an 'obvious attempt' to score high on animal related lists/securing gigs on Animal Planet.

  • elaine

    never realized how ugly most animals are.

  • http://newhandsweepstakes.com/writings/the-time-i-accidently-picked-up-a-gay-man-by-brian-mcelmurry/ Brian McElmurry

    The strangeness of this has an intoxicating affect. Feel slightly stoned after reading this. Enoyable, no paranoia.

  • http://clarifiedconfusion.blogspot.com aaron nicholas

    your non-sequitor's made me double-take, twice
    (eg “I just thought “I hate my life” in a tonally incomprehensible manner.”)

  • WHALE

    Mollusc =/= Crustacean

  • Jordancastroisthepresident

    lol…

    nice

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    sweet

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    'hehe…'

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    sweet maybe

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    sweet

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    sweet

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    sweet

  • http://tomhankssuperfan.blogspot.com megan boyle

    lol…

    nice

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    it keeps deleting when i type 'sweet'

  • http://clarifiedconfusion.blogspot.com aaron nicholas

    it was a good double-take.
    my brain didn't register/believe my senses due to randomness/unexpected content, so they enacted a quick half-second battle in which my brain commanded my senses to look at the content again refusing to 'make sense' of it until my eyes (senses) ultimately proved that the unexpected was, indeed, there. i think God created this biological response to keep us from [God stopped thinking about it at this point].

  • http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ tao

    'i think God created this biological response to keep us from [God stopped thinking about it at this point]'

    sweet

    i smiled

  • http://twitter.com/rislynsey christopher lynsey

    It thinks you're a spam bot.

  • http://popserial.tumblr.com stephen

    sweet

  • beachsloth

    Does disliking these creatures make you “an ass man”?

  • Eric

    hamsters have asses…

  • FLOX

    there are these sink ass bitches that live in the apartment next door to me and every morning i see them through the window doing shit at the sink at the same time i'm doing my shit at my sink. one time i even saw one of them taking her bra off (not simultaneously with me removing my own bra, though).

    will pay you in good vibes to write about/profile these sink ass bitches.

  • Rebecca

    Great article.

    Anyone else wondering what the hell happened to Ellen Kennedy? Did she go into hiding after Richard Yates was published because she felt so awkward about the way she was depicted in it? Any info on this anyone?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Parker-Baldin/516709205 Parker Baldin

    tao,
    you better comment

  • http://www.facebook.com/adamhump Adam Humphreys

    so funny… tao… wtf

  • Weird times

    seems like a 'juicy' topic.. i don't have any info but i have a feeling she lurks everything tao does, including the comment sections. r u out there ellen?

    is it just me or does megan boyle seem like tao's new girl aka destined to be the main character in the forthcoming “RICHARD YATES 2: Return of the [can't think of anything]“

  • trash_humper

    your alligator pic looks more like a crocodile pic…

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  • Makenna

    Pretty sure that's an alligator pic… they're blackish in color, they have a shorter, rounded snout, and it appears you can't see the bottom teeth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363230138 Michael Koh

    re-reading this post-red bull binge

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363230138 Michael Koh

    re-reading this post-red bull binge

  • Hannah

    You’re funny.

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