From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22606 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2009 16:26:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 22598 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Oct 2009 16:26:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (HELO mail-fx0-f210.google.com) (209.85.220.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:26:05 +0000 Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so4544963fxm.43 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.127.7 with SMTP id e7mr27462mun.117.1254932762423; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e8sm533056muf.59.2009.10.07.09.26.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ACCC48D.2050302@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:26:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Not-Exactly-True and Not-Always-Entirely-Beautiful-Either Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Hippos are Vegetarian References: <4ACCB9DD.1070503@gmail.com> <20091007160706.GA11493@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20091007160706.GA11493@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q4/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 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