From: Aaron Humphrey <alfvaen@gmail.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Hippos are Vegetarian
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfc52fe00910070837p5d874a63i754fb3e7ead9e84c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns9C9D99B7A4AF3zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.13>
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:07 AM, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
> A dwarf nicknamed Od has died in a circus accident in northern Thailand.
> According to the Pattaya Mail, he "bounced sideways from a trampoline and was
> swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus which was waiting to appear in the next
> act. Vets on the scene said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex that
> automatically caused her to swallow." The vet said it was the first time the
> hefty vegetarian had ever eaten a circus performer. "Unfortunately, the
> 1,000-plus spectators continued to applaud widely until common-sense dictated
> that there had been a tragic mistake". (Melbourne Herald Sun - July 16th,
> 1999)
>
> --
> zzapper
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.
--
--Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--The Monkees:Heart And Soul
Current Book--Richard Bachman:The Regulators
... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 14:08 zzapper
2009-10-07 15:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-07 15:38 ` Aaron Humphrey [this message]
2009-10-07 15:40 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-07 16:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-07 16:26 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-07 16:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2009-10-07 17:59 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-07 22:43 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2009-10-08 0:03 ` Dave Korn
2009-10-08 2:32 ` Morgan Gangwere
2009-10-07 15:46 ` zzapper
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