Hippo eats Dwarf

unknown newspaper via internet

[woofie]

Bangkok: A hippopotamus swallowed a circus dwarf in a "freak accident" in northern Thailand according to a columnist in the Pattaya Mail.

The Grapevine column reported" A circus dwarf nicknamed Od,died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act"

"Vets said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex which caused her to swallow. More than 1000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized there had been a tragic mistake"

[mowowie]

LOL

[Constitution Day]

I am glad that’s not true.

‘Cause I laughed when I saw the title...
which would probably mean I was going to Hell if it was true.

But it isn’t!

[Hot Tabasco]

You need to check things out before you post them here. I got that email five years ago. It wasn't true then.

That was five years ago dude, things change and dwarfs start doing stupid things........

[Richard Kimball]

Horrible, if true. I feel particularly guilty because I can’t read that headline without laughing. I keep thinking of the Chuckles the Clown episode of Mary Tyler Moore.

[The SISU kid]

Not-A-Ping....

8^)

[PERKY2004]

[JimRed]

Hippos are vegetarian, aren’t they?

[goat granny]

Ding Ding Ding We have a winner

Your line gets a bbl Big Belly Laugh.....

[JoeProBono]

"Hippos are vegetarian, aren’t they?"

Not all of them

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sort of.

Hippos mostly eat grass but they are known to eat carrion for sure and are reported to have been seen eating other types of meat as well.

It's sort of like saying a cat is a carnivore. They are but they will eat certain grasses and plants on occasion. Very few animals are pure anything.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

A disappearing dwarf will be hard to reproduce on an ongoing basis in future shows. And spectators will now come to see the disappearing dwarf act.

At one dwarf swallowed per show, costs will increase dramatically.

There are a lot of business lessons in this story...

[SparkyBass]

Uh, has anyone seen Robert Reich lately?



:)

[ThomasThomas]

I remember that game.

[Cvengr]

“freak accident”

Now that’s not very nice.

How about, "That's Od!"

[School of Rational Thought]

Snopes is not always correct.

[Grizzled Bear]

Hey, remember how you were looking for a theme/title for a new sitcom? Check this out!

[Slings and Arrows]

100% fact-free journalism ping!

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[glock rocks]

[glock rocks]

Anybody seen Humble? An Od story...