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RE: 800 pink hippos sighted off southern coast of uk
- From: "Ross Boulet" <listuser at rossb dot com>
- To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:55:07 -0600
- Subject: RE: 800 pink hippos sighted off southern coast of uk
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
[ ... snip ...]
> [*] And, on the "hippos are dangerous" theme, not only
> can they run thirty
> miles an hour, not only do they weigh two tons, not only
> can they bite off
> your arm, step on your toes while ballet-dancing in tu-tus
> and fall out of the
> sky onto your head from a great height.... but now we also
> have to worry about
> their eyes coming off and little kids swallowing and
> choking on them or
> getting stuck with the sharp pins used to hold them in!
In addition to those dangers, it now seems they are capable
of knocking containers off a ship and using the contents to
camouflage an amphibious assault on the southern coast of
the UK.