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War on Hippo's
Newsweek ^ | Nov 03, 2023 | Aristos Georgiou

Posted on 11/06/2023 10:42:58 AM PST by BigFreakinToad

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To: BigFreakinToad

I took an Amazon cruise that went by Escobar’s old estate but never saw any hippos.


21 posted on 11/06/2023 11:01:34 AM PST by chrisinoc
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To: BigFreakinToad

Hippo’s kill hundreds of people in Africa every year. People on this side of the world like them because they’re cute.
I watched an animal show about these hippo’s. They’re breeding in the wild now and taking over a river. They’ve got to go.


22 posted on 11/06/2023 11:02:33 AM PST by Varda
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To: lee martell

Perhaps those Hippos could be dropped in the rivers to battle the 4 legged ones


23 posted on 11/06/2023 11:02:38 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Hippo mean is supposed to be good. There must be options.
I mean, aren’t people hungry in Venezuela?


24 posted on 11/06/2023 11:03:54 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: BradyLS

Sound like a good movie card for a side B sci-fi drama with C list actors


25 posted on 11/06/2023 11:04:05 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: boycott

Thats the rare gapped toothed black Hippo.


26 posted on 11/06/2023 11:05:10 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad

That would be a Battle Royal!
Did you know hair weaves can be used to make Numchucks?


27 posted on 11/06/2023 11:05:44 AM PST by lee martell
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To: ALPAPilot

maybe hippo ribs was what Fred Flintstone had


28 posted on 11/06/2023 11:06:00 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad
The hippo's what?

The errant apostrophe. My personal irritation.

29 posted on 11/06/2023 11:06:03 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: EvilCapitalist

Maybe that is where the term “when $h!t hits the fan” comes from


30 posted on 11/06/2023 11:07:47 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: lee martell

arm pit hair too


31 posted on 11/06/2023 11:09:11 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Fido969

oh well, the sun will still rise tomorrow


32 posted on 11/06/2023 11:09:45 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad

Hippos don’t belong in South America. They have no natural enemies so they’ll breed like rabbits. Yes,I think that they should either be killed or moved to Africa. Of course moving them to Africa would be damn expensive...so death is the only reasonable plan.


33 posted on 11/06/2023 11:12:25 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: ALPAPilot

According to Peter Capstick hippo filet is some good eating.


34 posted on 11/06/2023 11:13:55 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Arise and shine,and give God the glory!-A trail cook's morning call.)
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To: boycott

Goo goo g’ joob


35 posted on 11/06/2023 11:16:48 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: EvilCapitalist
I've seen hippos...in the wild...in Africa. I've also seen many,many documentary films on African wildlife (I'm addicted). It's said that hippos kill more people in Africa than any other creature except mosquitoes. They absolutely do not belong in South America.
36 posted on 11/06/2023 11:16:54 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Pete Dovgan; ALPAPilot; Phoenix8
So good that congress almost released them here...

How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make “lake cow bacon”...

37 posted on 11/06/2023 11:18:56 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Varda
I shoot the hippopotamus

With bullets made of platinum
Because if I use leaden ones

His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

-Hilaire Belloc, "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"

38 posted on 11/06/2023 11:19:07 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Gay State Conservative

While it’s apples and oranges, we have a feral pig problem. Same thing, they breed like crazy. Least Hippos stay close to water, pigs go everywhere, bulldozing along away.


39 posted on 11/06/2023 11:19:45 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: BigFreakinToad

BLR “Soy Pablo” spoof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKdNcP4xrM


40 posted on 11/06/2023 11:22:11 AM PST by Yardstick
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