From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Hippos
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANO5sQtgTIFprhM000000ae@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050520170358.GA8746@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 20 May 2005 18:04
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:02:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> What scares me even more is when they do ballet.
>>
>> Have you ever seen a hippo in a tu-tu?
>
> I suspect that most people have.
>
> cgf
Nonononono, it's what they do when they want to hide! It's a form of
camouflage, since tu-tu's greatly resemble the pink, frond-like leaves of
the water lilies that grow abundantly in the hippo's natural environment.
Hippos in the wild are greatly fond of sheltering and hiding behind this
foliage, but it does have the unfortunate consequence that they tend to get
a bit panicky when you take one for a night at the opera, since they don't
know how many other hippos might be hiding out there, watching them.
cheers,
DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 17:09 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 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2005-05-20 17:24 ` Hippos Igor Pechtchanski
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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