Okay - I have to admit I was totally amazed to see a real, live Petite Lap Giraffe walking around on a live video feed, straight from Russia. See here! I was so amazed, in fact, that I had to figure out for sure if they were real or not.

For starters, I noticed petitelapgiraffe.com was registered a month ago by Grey Global Group, a New York Marketing firm.

$ whois petitelapgiraffe.com
...
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Grey Global Group
200 5th Ave
4th Fl
NEW YORK, NY 10010
US
212-546-1824 fax: 123 123 1234
Record expires on 15-Feb-2012.
Record created on 15-Feb-2011.

That wasn't quite enough to relegate the giraffe to myth-hood, though. If they were leaving their domain name swinging in the wind, they must have slipped up somewhere else.  To the batcave!  (by which I mean image metadata).  Take a look at the pictures on the website.  In particular, look at this one:

Just look at it.  It's a cute, petite lap giraffe in a luxurious marble bath!

Oh, wait.  No, it's not.

It's a stock Corbis image, catalog number 42-25705449.  See here (http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/42-25705449.html) for comparison:

I know, I know...  I wanted a Petite Lap Giraffe too...  My best guess is that it's a DirecTV marketing campaign.  There is an Uncanny Valley Giraffe running on a treadmill in one of their videos, and it's so adorable it just has to be a million polygons in a rendering farm somewhere.

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: You don't know?!

posted by shakespeherian at 7:38 AM on November 25 [2 favorites]

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: Lightbulbs? We tape fireflies to our PBR hats with duct tape and can see just as well as YOU.

posted by pyramid termite at 8:29 AM on November 25

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: All of them. One to screw in the lightbulb, while the rest brag to each other about how they were changing lightbulbs before it was cool.

posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:17 AM on November 25 [3 favorites]

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

They don't need lights. Macbooks have backlit keyboards.

posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 10:44 AM on November 25 [6 favorites]

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Oh, are those the new light bulbs? I liked the old ones better.

posted by Parasite Unseen at 1:32 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

I have the answer on vinyl.

posted by ichthuz at 5:06 PM on November 25 [4 favorites]

Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: an obscure number you've never heard of.

posted by meadowlark lime at 7:22 PM on November 25 [8 favorites]

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