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RE: Do not taunt Happy Fun Hippo


On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 20 July 2007 08:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Jul 19 23:10, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>
> >>   No really, just don't.
> >>
> >> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hippo_taunting
> >
> > Trying to impress a girl by throwing stones at an animal...
> >
> > Uhm...
>
>   Well, I suppose it's at least marginally better than trying to impress a
> stone by throwing animals at a girl.  Or trying to impress an animal by
> throwing girls at a stone.

Isn't the latter essentially what the Phoenicians did with Andromeda?
	Igor
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