If you haven’t been to hornymanatee.com yet, well, frankly I don’t know where else you could be going to satisfy your pornographic sea-life needs. No, really, tell me, because I am so turned on right now. After Conan O’Brien referenced the then-nonexistent website during a "New College Mascots" skit on Monday night’s show, NBC was forced to either buy the domain name or cut the line from the broadcast. They bought it (smart!), and so did bored people everywhere: Horny Manatee got 1.5 million hits on Wednesday alone.
NBC says they haven’t had that kind of traffic since "Lazy Sunday." Conan says "no one in this country has anything better to do," which we already knew and don’t feel that bad about. I say I would give anything to hug/stroke/[insert your own vaguely suggestive verb here] that exceedingly plush manatee costume. It’s taking all the willpower I have not to run a few blocks east to 30 Rock and devour it in person. Like they’d let me. (This fantasy has been sponsored in part by the the woman-on-plant action in one of my favorite videos ever, Hooverphonic’s endearingly creepy "Mad About You.")
Take some time to check out the thriving "Fan Art" section, which includes a graphic novel, an inexplicable pic of a girl with her undies showing petting a panda, and even some group play. It’s like the memorable "Fur and Loathing" episode of CSI, but without William Petersen standing by fascinated or anyone getting shot. The live webcam’s my favorite part, because the manatee’s dancing to "I Touch Myself," but his stubby little arms can only graze his generous underbelly. He (or she)’s got a lot more exploring to do!
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Hahah! Yes you just made my day! Usually I go to bed before Conan comes on (I need my sleep!), but I stayed up late the past two nights and I’m so glad I did! The whole idea of this is fantastic. The website is great too. I love the fan art. My stuff animal manatee at home wants in on the action!
this was my favorite of all the fan art:
http://hornymanatee.com/fan_art/7602.shtml
I really want to go and see this, but I get the feeling there are just some urls you don’t want to have in the history on your work computer.
daisyj, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Can’t wait to go home so I can see this, though!
Conan is hilarious! Unfortunately, I rarely get to see his show. Can’t wait until he replaces Jay Leno.
This is hysterical. And I can’t believe that NBC actually went through with purchasing it. Great stuff.
God, I love Conan. What a sick man.
the horny manatee is actually a female
I love the Horny Manatee! It’s so cute!
I watched the follow up episode where Conan was explaining how he didn’t know that by casually making up the webname of hornymanatee.com that if the website didn’t exist they couldn’t mention made up ones, even in the context of a joke!
So funny that they went ahead and not only bought the webname, but made a website!
I visited the site during a commercial and it’s hilarious! I only wish I could go have another quick look, but I too am at work and don’t want the hilariously bizarre webname to show up on any records!
Shhh!
Conan is sickening anway. I just don’t watch it unless he has a guest I want to see. Then you have to put up with the stupid garbage of his.
Horny manatee is now an international incident – im linking all my friends to it and im in australia!!!
Conan O’Brien FTW. i love the story behind http://www.hornymanatee.com
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