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RE: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "'wheeeeeeeeeeeeKERSPLOOOOSH!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: My local hippo is 120,000 years old!
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- 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: Lionel B
> >Sent: 20 May 2005 16:25
>
> > "Dave Korn" wrote:
> >>
> >> Elephants and Hippos in East Anglia
> >> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/exhibits/wildlife.html
> >> http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/downloads/hippopotamus.jpg
> >> http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2005050403
> >
> > Yeah, you see them punting down the Cam on summer evenings after a few
> > too many Pimm's.
>
> You certainly don't want to be going down the river and be passing under a
> bridge just as one of them takes a running jump and leaps off of it into
> your punt! [*]
>
> [*] I heartily deny any allegations that I may have pushed it. It jumped,
> and I've got an alibi!!
Oh, no need to push it. Just point it in the right direction and leave.
The first honk of a morning truck would be enough to start it off...
Alibi-shmalibi...
Igor
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