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For those of you who are Bugs Bunny fans, here are some quality websites with my own personal annotations.

http://looneytunes.warnerbros.com/web/
stars/stars_bugs.jsp
The official Warner Bros. site, but lots of popups and distractions. Still, there are some great pictures, sketches, info, and links here.

http://www.archive.org/
A couple of freely downloadable Public-Domain-type Bugs Bunny cartoons!

http://www.nonstick.com/wmovies/
More downloadable cartoons!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny
Bugs Bunny on Wikipedia! All kinds of trivia and background information on Bugs and his various cartoons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bugs_Bunny_cartoons
Also from Wikipedia, a list of all the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Many of these have their own page on Wikipedia.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/
encyclopedia/b/bu/bugs_bunny.htm
An encyclopedia-style article that breaks down Bugs’ career year by year, with details about each cartoon as it came out. Very interesting reading, with tons of metalinks. Similar to the Wikipedia article mentioned above.

http://images.google.com/images?q=bugs%
20bunny&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
An image search on Google for Bugs Bunny. Over 24,300 hits!

http://www.chuckjones.com/
Gotta include a tribute to Chuck Jones! He died in 2002, with a career over 60 years long. He made over 300 animated films and was the genius behind the animation of Bugs Bunny (among many others). From the site: “After hearing that Jones had died, a four-year-old child asked her mother, between sobs, ‘Does this mean the bunny won’t be in the barber chair any more?’ The answer is, ‘No, the bunny will be in the barber chair forever.’ ”

Bugs Bunny Stuff on Amazon
An Amazon search that turned up DVDs, CDs, books, apparel, computer games, and even utility mats!

http://www.barbneal.com/bugs.asp
Tons of classic Bugs Bunny sound clips! (over 150 of them)

http://www.idealwallpapers.com/animation/b/bugs-bunny/
Bugs Bunny wallpapers for your computer!

http://screensaver.tierranet.com/fsnet/wp/Cartoons/B_wpCartoons.html
MORE Bugs Bunny wallpapers! (just scroll down to Bugs)

http://www.tnpsc.com/ssaver/looneysavers.htm
Oh, and some screensavers, too!

http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/search.cgi?query=bugs%20bunny
The Big Cartoon Database is a great repository and searchable database of all kinds of cartoon-related information.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/cartoon.characters/
A story on CNN about TV Guide’s rating of the all-time greatest cartoon characters. Bugs was NUMBER ONE, of course! (Daffy turned out number 14, after Fat Albert and the PowerPuff Girls!)

http://www.kidscolorpages.com/bugsbunnypics.htm
Okay, this page is far from attractive and has flashing banner ads, but it also has some good coloring-book style pictures of Bugs. Click ‘em and print ‘em, then take ‘em home to your kids or your neighbor’s kids! Just be sure to save a good one for yourself!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053488/
And how could I do a list of links without referring to the Internet Movie (and tv) Database?

There’s apparently a parasite that eats (and eventually replaces) fish tongues! The Discovery Channel News site posted the story a few days ago. This parasite, called Cymothoa exigua, snacks on the fish’s tongue until it eats it down to just a stub. But by then, the thing is big enough to replace the fish’s tongue, which it does. The fish manages to keep living, since the “tongue louse” functions sort of like a tongue, but that parasite also gets the pickings of food particles that the fish lunches on.

I’d never heard of anything like this before, but apparently it’s been a known if limited phenomenon off the coast of California. The worrisome thing about this story is that this particular fish was found in England! Which means this parasite is pretty much all over the world now! Blech! If ever a fish wished it had HANDS, I bet the time would be when it felt something nibbling on its tongue!