Hippos are Vegetarian

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct  7 17:40, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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 :-)

You forgot the hippo.  Truth is beauty, beauty is a hippo, hence beauty
is truth.  Or something.


Corinna