From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: The Not-Exactly-True and Not-Always-Entirely-Beautiful-Either
Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Hippos are Vegetarian
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACCC48D.2050302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091007160706.GA11493@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 7 16:55, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Aaron Humphrey wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/hippoeatsdwarf.asp
>>>
>>> Coincidentally, I just got the book "Hippo Eats Dwarf", a book on
>>> hoaxes, out of the library.
>> Heh, your mail arrived while I was writing pretty much the same. This is
>> one of the classic urban legends of internet history. And it has a hippo in
>> it! :-)
>
> But then again, it *must* be true, right?
>
Exactly. Truth is beauty, hence beauty is truth; this story is beautiful,
therefore it must be true. And if it isn't, it should be, so the best thing
we can do is help the rumour spread :-)
cheers,
DaveK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 14:08 zzapper
2009-10-07 15:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-07 15:38 ` Aaron Humphrey
2009-10-07 15:40 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-07 16:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-07 16:26 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2009-10-07 16:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-07 17:59 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-07 22:43 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2009-10-08 0:03 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-08 2:32 ` Morgan Gangwere
2009-10-07 15:46 ` zzapper
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