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RE: Hippos
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:21:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Hippos
- References: <SERRANO22ZhCl8aii08000000ad@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot 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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