Woaaaaaaahhh, give us an inch, huh? I'm laughing so hard because this group of people (myself included) is the last group that needs an excuse to post anything strange!
Don't get me wrong, I like this thread already, in fact, here's my addition:
something we saw at the zoo was a Capybara, the words largest rodent, or as I call it, an actual, real life R.O.U.S.
I was telling my friend Chris about them, so I did a google image search to show him how big they were, and you couldn'y really get a good picture of it with images like this one:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... D%26sa%3DG
so then I found THIS one:
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~ttakasu/capy ... pybara.gif
Can you imagine opening your door and seeing this?
http://homepage.mac.com/alanwolf/nation ... ges/14.jpg
"Uh, honey, I think we have mice!"