In the most condescending tone I could muster, I repeat that no one can deny a scientific fact. And this is when she hit me with the classic question: "Have you, yourself, ever seen a hippo run?"
Posted on 05/22/2010 7:02:09 PM PDT by JoeProBono
I am blessed with a wide array of personality defects, such as an overinflated sense of self importance, an incredible lack of attention to detail and general belligerence.
However, the personality disorder that takes the cake is my argumentativeness. My need to start and win arguments is pathological. And I'm one of those types who will not allow reason, common decency or the World Wide Web come between me and a loud and violent debate. As a result, I'm drawn to like-minded people who love a good old scrap.
This thought was sparked off by an incident a couple of weeks ago. A friend of mine, Siyabonga, sent me an arbitrary sms containing a few "facts" about the hippo. These facts were along the lines of "Did you know that the hippo can outrun Usain Bolt; its skin is impregnable to snake bites, and it kills more humans annually than any of the other Big Five?"
In the most condescending tone I could muster, I repeat that no one can deny a scientific fact. And this is when she hit me with the classic question: "Have you, yourself, ever seen a hippo run?"
How is it that an animal with such cute little ears could be such a menace?
One of God’s amazing creatures just don’t get too close.
It has really huge teeth to make up for it.
I think Ndumiso Ngcobo is a Freeper with many different names.
Not another Michelle Obama thread.
Even though they are bulky animals, hippopotamuses can run faster than a human on land. Estimates of their running speed vary from 30 km/h (18 mph) to 40 km/h (25 mph), or even 50 km/h (30 mph). The hippo can maintain these higher speeds for only a few hundred meters
The fastest human footspeed on record is 44.72 km/h (27.79 mph), seen during a 100 meter sprint (average speed between the 60th and the 80th meter) by Usain Bolt[4] Maximum human sprint speed is strikingly slower than that of many other animals, due to a low density of the energy-producing organelles known as mitochrondria.[3] Compared to other land animals, humans are exceptionally capable of endurance, but exceptionally incapable of great speed.[5] For example, cheetahs can attain short bursts of speed well over 100 km/h (62 mph),[6] the American quarter horse has topped 88 km/h (55 mph),[7] greyhounds can reach 70 km/h (43 mph), and the Mongolian Wild Ass has been measured at 64 km/h (40 mph).[8] Even the domestic cat may reach 48 km/h (30 mph).[8]
Best seen in a zoo and not from the riverbank when really upset!
We have a huge game preserve here in SE Ohio called the Wilds:
http://www.thewilds.org/
I have heard that the Rinos will charge the trams at times and I do not think I’d want to be in one when this happened!
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