* My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
@ 2005-05-20 15:31 Dave Korn
2005-05-20 15:36 ` Lionel B
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From: Dave Korn @ 2005-05-20 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'support your local hippo: fall on yourself!'
Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
cheers,
DaveK
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* Re: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
2005-05-20 15:31 My local hippo is 120,000 years old! Dave Korn
@ 2005-05-20 15:36 ` Lionel B
2005-05-20 16:11 ` Dave Korn
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From: Lionel B @ 2005-05-20 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-talk
"Dave Korn" wrote:
>
> Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
Yeah, you see them punting down the Cam on summer evenings after a few too many Pimm's.
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* RE: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
2005-05-20 15:36 ` Lionel B
@ 2005-05-20 16:11 ` Dave Korn
2005-05-20 16:16 ` Lionel B
2005-05-20 16:57 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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From: Dave Korn @ 2005-05-20 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'wheeeeeeeeeeeeKERSPLOOOOSH!'
----Original Message----
>From: Lionel B
>Sent: 20 May 2005 16:25
> "Dave Korn" wrote:
>>
>> Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
>> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
>> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
>> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
>
> Yeah, you see them punting down the Cam on summer evenings after a few
> too many Pimm's.
You certainly don't want to be going down the river and be passing under a
bridge just as one of them takes a running jump and leaps off of it into
your punt! [*]
cheers,
DaveK
[*] I heartily deny any allegations that I may have pushed it. It jumped,
and I've got an alibi!!
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* Re: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
2005-05-20 16:11 ` Dave Korn
@ 2005-05-20 16:16 ` Lionel B
2005-05-20 16:39 ` Dave Korn
2005-05-20 16:57 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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From: Lionel B @ 2005-05-20 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-talk
"Dave Korn" wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Lionel B
> >Sent: 20 May 2005 16:25
>
> > "Dave Korn" wrote:
> >>
> >> Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
> >> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
> >> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
> >> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
> >
> > Yeah, you see them punting down the Cam on summer evenings after a few
> > too many Pimm's.
>
> You certainly don't want to be going down the river and be passing under a
> bridge just as one of them takes a running jump and leaps off of it into
> your punt! [*]
There's one just off-picture here; you can see where it's laid its eggs on the balustrade of the bridge...
http://www.travel-images.com/england175.jpg
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* RE: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
2005-05-20 16:16 ` Lionel B
@ 2005-05-20 16:39 ` Dave Korn
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From: Dave Korn @ 2005-05-20 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'why do hippos always wear brown trousers?'
----Original Message----
>From: Lionel B
>Sent: 20 May 2005 17:06
> "Dave Korn" wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Lionel B
>>> Sent: 20 May 2005 16:25
>>
>>> "Dave Korn" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
>>>> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
>>>> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
>>>> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
>>>
>>> Yeah, you see them punting down the Cam on summer evenings after a few
>>> too many Pimm's.
>>
>> You certainly don't want to be going down the river and be passing
>> under a bridge just as one of them takes a running jump and leaps off of
>> it into your punt! [*]
>
> There's one just off-picture here; you can see where it's laid its eggs
> on the balustrade of the bridge...
>
> http://www.travel-images.com/england175.jpg
Well, those _may_ be eggs, you never know. Either that, or the hippo just
got a bit nervous at the sight of the height it was going to have to jump
... :-O
cheers,
DaveK
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* RE: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
2005-05-20 16:11 ` Dave Korn
2005-05-20 16:16 ` Lionel B
@ 2005-05-20 16:57 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2005-05-20 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'wheeeeeeeeeeeeKERSPLOOOOSH!'
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Lionel B
> >Sent: 20 May 2005 16:25
>
> > "Dave Korn" wrote:
> >>
> >> Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
> >> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
> >> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
> >> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
> >
> > Yeah, you see them punting down the Cam on summer evenings after a few
> > too many Pimm's.
>
> You certainly don't want to be going down the river and be passing under a
> bridge just as one of them takes a running jump and leaps off of it into
> your punt! [*]
>
> [*] I heartily deny any allegations that I may have pushed it. It jumped,
> and I've got an alibi!!
Oh, no need to push it. Just point it in the right direction and leave.
The first honk of a morning truck would be enough to start it off...
Alibi-shmalibi...
Igor
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