# Hot Manatee Action!!!eleven!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037 "2006-12-06T06:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/1 "2006-12-06T06:03:10Z")
Monday night on the Conan O’Brien show, they did a sketch about fictional (but hopefully humorous) NCAA football mascots. One that they presented was the FSU Webcam Manatee, where they had someone come out in a manatee costume and act sexy while Pender (a band member) sat drooling over his laptop computer watching it. Conan quipped that Pender must be watching [www.hornymanatee.com](http://www.hornymanatee.com). Tonight, Conan announced that he got a call from…erg, don’t remember who exactly, but some legal department with the network. They informed him that if he mentions a website that doesn’t exist (even as a joke), they could get in legal trouble; so NBC had to register the domain [www.hornymanatee.com](http://www.hornymanatee.com) in order to avoid legal trouble. The show then saw fit to at least put something up there to look at…so…they are asking for amateur pics/video of horny manatees. In case you have any. Seriously. It’s worth a look for a laugh, plus they’ve got an email for submissions. There’s a “Man on Manatee” page. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/2 "2006-12-06T06:12:35Z")
Heh. I followed along with that sketch, though I thought he was going to take it in a different direction: I expected him to start naming all sorts of random non-existant websites just to screw over the network. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/3 "2006-12-06T07:07:24Z")
Thanks for the link! I’m all over that page! ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/4 "2006-12-06T07:42:39Z")
::hands **Manatee** a flipper-full of tissues:: It’s totally nonsensical and probably not very culturally relevant, but I thought it was a funny manifestation of red tape overload. Manatees are HAWT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/5 "2006-12-06T17:39:10Z")
[QUOTE=Dijon Warlock] Manatees are HAWT!!! [/QUOTE] Yes. Yes, we are. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/6 "2006-12-06T18:22:30Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Yes. Yes, we are. [/QUOTE] Ah, you’re back! Did you enjoy your Memphis vacation? 😃🆒 ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/7 "2006-12-06T20:46:24Z")
[QUOTE=Dijon Warlock] There’s a “Man on Manatee” page. [/QUOTE] Is that Troy McClure? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/8 "2006-12-07T03:41:23Z")
[QUOTE=xizor] Is that Troy McClure? [/QUOTE] You might recognize him from such Beastiality skin flicks and “Moby’s Dick” and “The real Sperm Whale.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/9 "2006-12-07T04:34:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Ah, you’re back! Did you enjoy your Memphis vacation? 😃🆒 [/QUOTE] Yeah, but I was a little disappointed that they wouldn’t let me into Graceland. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/10 "2006-12-07T04:34:13Z")
That’s hilarious… ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/11 "2006-12-07T05:27:10Z")
[QUOTE=Dijon Warlock] They informed him that if he mentions a website that doesn’t exist (even as a joke), they could get in legal trouble; so NBC had to register the domain [www.hornymanatee.com](http://www.hornymanatee.com) in order to avoid legal trouble. [/QUOTE] Huh? This cannot be. Makes no sense at all. I believe this is a mega whoosh. By Conan of course. People are forever mentioning fake websites on TV shows. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/12 "2006-12-07T07:30:44Z")
It may be a “mega whoosh,” but while people mention fake websites on TV, the ones that I’ve personally looked up end up being real, if only after the fact. The Simpsons have mentioned a few (such as “[whatbadgerseat.com](http://whatbadgerseat.com)”), but if you go to them, you’ll find content from the show. I watched Conan again tonight, and he claims they’ve had over 1.5 million hits on the website, as well as thousands of submissions. So, whoosh or not, it’s a mini-cultural-phenomenon, and you heard it here first. You may thank me or spank me, it’s pretty much the same thing at this time of night… ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/13 "2006-12-30T14:34:06Z")
It grows…[IT GROWS!!!](http://www.hornymanatee.com/) Like the kelp forests of the Florida Keys (_are_ there kelp forests around America’s Wang? Manatees have to eat _something_), the website grows. Last week (before they started rerunning the Chicago shows–which have been awesome, btw), they mentioned 16 million hits in just a few weeks. Take THAT, YouTube! You can buy t-shirts, y’know… You can also donate (for real) money to help save REAL manatees, not just horny ones (but probably those, too). This is truly the Internet coming into its own. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/14 "2006-12-30T14:38:09Z")
Okay, I forgot the important stuff: 1: It was NBC’s Standards Department that imposed the edict requiring the purchase of the website. 2: The purchase of a fictitious website mentioned on the air is an NBC policy, not a universal law. 3: I hope that I am done humiliating myself here. Heh, heh, heh…“Manateen”… (okay, evidently I’m NOT done…) ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/15 "2006-12-30T18:45:03Z")
_snort_ Mature Manatees. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/16 "2006-12-30T19:17:09Z")
Thanks to this website, I have now wasted an hour of my valuable Saturday. And I couldn’t be happier. (Shoveling 6" of snow out of my parents’ driveway sucked ass.) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/17 "2006-12-30T19:27:28Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Yes. Yes, we are. [/QUOTE] But are you horney? (Send in a picture.) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/18 "2006-12-31T02:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=xizor] Is that Troy McClure? [/QUOTE] People don’t do that sort of thing with manatees! ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/19 "2006-12-31T02:52:58Z")
Is there a MILF page? You know, “Manatees I’d Love to…” Ah. forget it… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037/20 "2006-12-31T05:03:44Z")
**Rico** , such a page is unnecessary, as everyone would like to…you know…ALL manatees! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-manatee-action-eleven/383037.md?page=2)