Hippos are Vegetarian
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Oct 7 16:26:00 GMT 2009
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 7 16:55, Dave Korn wrote:
>> 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! :-)
>
> But then again, it *must* be true, right?
>
Exactly. Truth is beauty, hence beauty is truth; this story is beautiful,
therefore it must be true. And if it isn't, it should be, so the best thing
we can do is help the rumour spread :-)
cheers,
DaveK
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