From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Hippos
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0505201320540.25060@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SERRANO22ZhCl8aii08000000ad@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Christopher Faylor
> >Sent: 20 May 2005 17:57
>
> > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:46:54PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
> >>> Sent: 20 May 2005 17:39
> >>
> >>> Hippo anecdote:
> >>> I was the "mystery reader" for my son's kindergarten class this week
> >>> and the first book I read happened to contain a picture of a hippo. My
> >>> son blurts out that "hippos are dangerous" which I had to confirm
> >>> (while discouraging such outbursts).
> >>>
> >>> I may be mistaken, but I think the other students and the teacher
> >>> looked at us both a bit funny after hearing that we considered hippos
> >>> dangerous.
> >>>
> >>> Sometimes too much knowledge is not a good thing. :-)
> >>
> >> Rather than _explain_ that hippos are dangerous, what you should have
> >> done was *demonstrated* that hippos are dangerous.
> >>
> >> Dropping one on somebody from a very great height is usually a
> >> sufficiently effective demonstration of this fact to convince even the
> >> most hardened of skeptics... :)
> >
> > Dropping one on somebody is often hard to arrange. What gets me is when
> > they hide in dark corners and then lunge out at you unexpectedly. Hippos
> > are really masters of terror.
> >
> > cgf
>
> What scares me even more is when they do ballet.
> Have you ever seen a hippo in a tu-tu?
Most kids have. Disney's "Fantasia"... Childhood trauma, and all that...
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-20 16:47 Hippos Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-05-20 16:54 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 16:57 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-05-20 17:04 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 17:09 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-05-20 17:21 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 17:24 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2005-05-20 17:25 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 17:32 ` Hippos Igor Pechtchanski
2005-05-20 17:02 ` Hippos One Angry User
2005-06-07 14:13 ` Hippos zzapper
2005-06-07 14:51 ` Hippos Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-07 16:10 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-06-07 17:59 ` Hippos zzapper
2005-06-07 18:16 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-06-07 18:37 ` Hippos zzapper
2005-06-07 18:46 ` Hippos One Angry User
2005-06-07 21:12 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-06-08 12:47 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2006-12-01 19:00 Hippos Lev Bishop
2006-12-02 2:37 ` Hippos Igor Peshansky
2006-12-02 3:18 ` Hippos Eric Blake
2008-05-30 16:57 Hippos Dave Korn
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