Adult Children by Stephen Beals for November 11, 2020

  1. Nc201206
    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Just a little reminder that a hippo can probably outrun you over short distances.

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  2. Freedom
    bookworm0812  almost 4 years ago

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

    Only a hippopotamus will do.

    Don’t want a doll, no dinky tinkertoy.

    I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy.

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

    I don’t think santa claus will mind, do you?

    He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue.

    Just bring him through the front door.

    That’s the easy thing to do.

    I can see me now on Christmas morning

    Creeping down the stairs.

    Oh what joy and what surprise,

    When I open up my eyes

    To see a hippo hero standing there!

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

    Only a hippopotamus will do.

    No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses.

    I only like hippopotamuses

    And hippopotamuses like me too!

    Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then

    Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian.

    There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage.

    I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage.

    I can see me now on Christmas morning

    Creeping down the stairs.

    Oh what joy and what surprise

    When I open up my eyes

    To see a hippo hero standing there!

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.

    Only a hippopotamus will do.

    No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses.

    I only like hippopotamuseses.

    And hippopotamuses like me too!

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  3. Froggy with cat ears
    willie_mctell  almost 4 years ago

    This is why the test of free speech is offensive speech. It’s also why humans have elaborate customs governing personal interaction.

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  4. Yellow submarine
    spaced man spliff  almost 4 years ago

    perhaps hippos and whales are soooo big they need the buoyancy of water to prevent them from collapsing under their own weight. Or at least whales anyway.

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