Aaron Humphrey wrote:
>
> 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.
Heh, your mail arrived while I was writing pretty much the same. This is
one of the classic urban legends of internet history. And it has a hippo in
it! :-)
cheers,
DaveK