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* My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
@ 2005-05-20 15:31 Dave Korn
  2005-05-20 15:36 ` Lionel B
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
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.

-- 
Lionel B


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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
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
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!!
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

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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
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
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

-- 
Lionel B


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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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
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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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

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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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
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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