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"Is this a 'who would win in a fight?' thread?"

No, it's for deciding who gets to drive the Bang Bus.

― DG, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

That floating baby hippo is a wonder and a half.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

also one time i was at the zoo and they were preparing to give the baby hippo a bath. this was in the children's petting zoo (behind a small, low fence). they had filled a little kiddie pool (the kind you put out on the lawn) with warm water from a hose. the hippo was standing in front of it looking down, off to one side, very sheepishly (a little sad, too). the zookeeper was pouring water from the hose onto his back, petting him, saying "it's ok, it's ok, see?" then she turned to us and said "well, he's a little nervous about going in because he thinks it's going to be cold"

baby hippos win!!

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

Aww, the nice.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

See what I love about the floating baby hippo photo is that said baby hippo is all wide-eyed and wondrous and his/her parent has a smug smile going, "Yeah, I got a cute kid and what do YOU have?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.honoluluzoo.org/images/hippo_baby_tianjinzoo.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

Just beautiful. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

Just what is it that makes baby hippos so cute, so appealing?

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

That they are small and wee.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

It makes no sense that hippos are cute.

― Spinktor au de toilette (El Spinktor), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

ten months pass...

OMG OMG OMG TEH CUTETS
Tsunami throws together odd pair
A baby hippo rescued shortly after last week's tsunami befriends a 100-year-old tortoise in Kenya

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40696000/jpg/_40696229_hippoafp203.jpg

"Mzee and Owen have become firm friends despite the age gap"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4152447.stm

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

http://snsimages.tribune.com/media/photo/2010-03/23547958240820-04160615.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Also, beware:

http://mosshippohaven.info/flying_hippo.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/11/11/1226192/205365-kufara-baby-black-rhino.jpg

― The Green Path of Hope is formed (nakhchivan), Friday, 11 November 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link

six months pass...

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/74723_371952746187971_1505078945_n.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 June 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link

It may be apocryphal, but I heard long ago that hippos kill more people than any other large mammal in Africa. Crocodiles may be somewhat more dangerous than hippos, but then, they're not mammals, amirite?

― Aimless, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 June 2014 11:46 (nine years ago) link

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