# What's the deadliest cute thing? (Or the cutest deadly thing?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 25, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438 "2010-02-25T20:27:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/41 "2010-02-26T13:35:04Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > [Eye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fugu-no-Shirako.JPG) beg to differ! :eek::eek::eek::eek: That’s its soft roe. Milt. Or as my husband delights in telling me as he eats it (not fugu, usually cod etc) “Fish spunk.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/42 "2010-02-26T13:41:05Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > It seems that a popular way for males to show off their domininance is to fart into the water and stir it up with their tails, the one who raises the biggest stench wins. Yuk. Male rednecks at ski resorts with hot tubs do the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/43 "2010-02-26T13:42:59Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > In a similar vein, the [Irukandji jellyfish](http://www.irukandjijellyfish.com/). If you are really unlucky you can get stung by one of these delicate, fragile 1-2cm living neurotoxin syringes [25m above the water.](http://www.maritime-connector.com/NewsDetails/6250/lang/English/Man-stung-by-irukandji-jellyfish-while-fishing-from-bulk-carrier.wshtml) Deadly psychedelic octopuses, tiny inch-long jellyfish that you sting you to an agonising death… not to mention the sharks, crocodiles, spiders, dingos, drop bears — it’s a wonder there are any Australians left at all! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/44 "2010-02-26T13:49:43Z")
I got your cute and deadly, for sale right [here](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/) 🙂 These guys have collectively killed more people than everything else here combined. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/45 "2010-02-26T13:49:53Z")
I spent some time last night looking for pictures of young female Air Force Missile Officers (ideally with the launch key hung around their necks). I figure that’s got to be the flat-out deadliest animal on the planet, and there’s bound to be a cute one somewhere. No luck so far though. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/46 "2010-02-26T16:01:51Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Can I be on the list? I’m cute as a bug. What’s deadly about me? Every time I snuggle with someone who has testicles, they get smashed. It’s not even an on purpose thing. It’s like I have magnets in feet, legs, elbows, knees… Repressed feminist rage coming out? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/47 "2010-02-26T16:13:14Z")
I know a few crush fetishists who would kill for a woman like that. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/48 "2010-02-26T18:29:44Z")
> [@Hokkaido\_Brit](#): > > That’s its soft roe. Milt. > > Or as my husband delights in telling me as he eats it (not fugu, usually cod etc) > > “Fish spunk.” :eek: My dad’s name is Milt…:eek:…☹ And Freudian, I’m willing to take my chances. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/49 "2010-02-26T18:43:42Z")
My cat is actually a deadly ninja assassin who’s going to kill me by causing me to trip over her. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/50 "2010-02-26T20:15:50Z")
> [@Bytegeist](#): > > A [Bichon Frise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bichon_Frise) made of anti-matter. You, sir, have made my day. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/51 "2010-02-26T20:50:01Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > [Hello Kitty](http://www.kittyhell.com/) with an [M-16](http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2008/01/hello-kitty-m16.html) or an [AK-47](http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/10/19/hello-kitty-ak-47/) > > (That poor chihuahua at the first link is probably looking for someone to take him to the Humane Society for a mercy killing.) [In the grim future of Hello Kitty, there is only war.](http://onastick.net/sitz/images/HK40K.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/52 "2010-02-26T21:43:50Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > I got your cute and deadly, for sale right [here](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/) 🙂 > These guys have collectively killed more people than everything else here combined. Hmm, plushing something up does not guarantee cute, methinks. I can think of things more huggable than the [E-coli one](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/1430/). …reminds me of a nightmare I once had that Furbies were some kind of parasitic organism, that would hide in the shadows and attack when you least expect it :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/53 "2010-02-26T22:28:00Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > …reminds me of a nightmare I once had that Furbies were some kind of parasitic organism, that would hide in the shadows and attack when you least expect it :eek: Yeah, a “nightmare.” Keep telling yourself that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/54 "2010-02-27T15:01:18Z")
Elephants? ---
**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/55 "2010-02-27T17:33:48Z")
A few of Mother Nature’s favorite little [murder machines](http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/pets-animals/photos/15-cute-animals-that-could-kill-you/the-secret-weapon-cuteness). Some old, some new! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/56 "2010-02-27T22:04:21Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Depending on your individual tastes, the [Blue Ring Octopus](http://www.weichtiere.at/Mollusks/Kopffuesser/blauring.html). Cutest little buggers, very huggable, 5 inches long and packs one of the deadliest toxins on the planet, in quantities that would make you weep if you weren’t already dead. > > They live in Australia, where else ? The Blue Ring gets my vote, partly because it was featured in a James Bond film (granted, it was “Octopussy” with Roger Moore, but still). It was only about 20 years after seeing the movie that I learned that the sucker actually exists, and that the octopus-in-the-tank footage wasn’t all faked. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/57 "2010-02-27T22:17:48Z")
Umm…, a schoolgirl with a machine gun? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/58 "2010-02-28T00:52:02Z")
I just randomly ran across this link, [15 Cute Animals That Can Kill You](http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/pets-animals/photos/15-cute-animals-that-could-kill-you). Has pictures of most of the suspects in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/59 "2010-02-28T01:09:49Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > In a similar vein, the [Irukandji jellyfish](http://www.irukandjijellyfish.com/). If you are really unlucky you can get stung by one of these delicate, fragile 1-2cm living neurotoxin syringes [25m above the water.](http://www.maritime-connector.com/NewsDetails/6250/lang/English/Man-stung-by-irukandji-jellyfish-while-fishing-from-bulk-carrier.wshtml) Heh, I don’t know, jellies don’t do it for me. You see, blue ring octopuses have that aura of alien malevolence and those permanently and murderously pissed-off eyes most cephalopoda have… BUT they’re teeny tiny. Like a chibi version of Chtulhu, they’re so \*precious \*! They’re really like cats that way, lovable pint-sized minions of Evil. On the other hand, jellyfish are just living mucus, really. Small gross is still gross. ---
**Author:** ![EdwardLost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/60 "2010-02-28T01:59:41Z")
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