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Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 24, 2006 - 05:17pm PT
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
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 vegeterian

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!

Words and music by John Rox
performed by Gayla Peevey (1953)

picture Jeremy Bern - http://soe.hyperchat.com/newchat/u/lisanne/~soe/hippo.htm
elcapfool

Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
Dec 24, 2006 - 07:35pm PT
I am a hippopotamus.



And that is O.K.
WoodySt

Trad climber
Riverside
Dec 24, 2006 - 07:55pm PT
Very good. It reminds me of my youth when I ask for a T-Rex for Christmas. Santa Claus was a disappointment that year.
elcapfool

Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
Dec 24, 2006 - 07:58pm PT
Although probably not as bad as if you actually got a T-Rex, and he ate your whole neighborhood...
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2006 - 08:08pm PT
John Lennon: I am the walrus.

elcapfool: I am a hippotamus.

blinny: I want a fancy groomer, but will settle for a hippotamus.

When younger, I always hoped for but never got a chemistry set. With which to make loud noises, rude smells, and explosions. Lots of fun, although perhaps not as dangerous to the neighbourhood as a T Rex. My boring practical parents gave me clothes and such instead.
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2008 - 11:17pm PT
Disappointed again this year, I'm afraid.

However, the song is now on U-Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7xjjlUbpJ4

Well worth three minutes silliness.
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2008 - 11:48pm PT
This one is also fun, at least for snow-lovers like myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCOh5iOJBd4
Captain...or Skully

Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
Dec 25, 2008 - 11:52pm PT
I'm a walrus, but only when it snows........Ask SirLoin.
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Dec 26, 2008 - 02:59am PT
Anders, you poor bastard, you never had a chemistry set? Way better than an Etcha-Sketch. I still wonder what kinda toxic crap I exposed myself to when I was a kid. Can anyone say Methyl Ethyl Keytone?
Karen

Trad climber
So Cal Hell
Dec 26, 2008 - 03:01am PT
As a teen I wanted a dirt bike but my mother said, "girls don't ride motorcycles"...argh!!!!!!!!!
hossjulia

Trad climber
Eastside
Dec 26, 2008 - 03:37am PT
hey Karen, I got that too! but from my Dad. So I round about asked him if I could fix up the Yamaha 60 sitting in the garage. He sorta gave his consent, but I don't think he knew it.

I took motorcycle mechanics, first girl in our school to do so. So after I figured I knew enough, and knew Dad had the tools, I pulled the head off the 60 and replaced the piston ring. He walks in the middle of it and says something like "wtfyouthinkyoudoin?!#@%"
So I tell him the obvious, changing the worn out ring, and he says, who told you you could, and I say something like "wtfdoyouthink I'm taking motorcycle mechanics for?!
His response? "Don't ever touch my tools again." So I asked for a set of tools for my 16 b-day and got a stupid ring. He did let me race the 60, once, and did let me use his tools.
I figured out I suck on dirt bikes. Took up road racing for a bit instead. THAT was waaaaaaaaaaaay sketch.
Then I got taken climbing and never looked back.


What do I want? A time machine.
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Dec 26, 2008 - 04:17am PT
"What do I want? A time machine."

What if Time Machines just sent us back every bit as old as we are now?
happiegrrrl

Trad climber
New York, NY
Dec 26, 2008 - 08:28am PT
"What if Time Machines just sent us back every bit as old as we are now? "


Sort of takes the shine off the idea, doesn't it!?

That would be a good movie concept, Karl. Well....not a GOOD movie, but I can definitely see it going down. An old, eccentric genius creates the thing as his last of a lifetime's work in making "not quite there" inventions(juice-o-matic type ideas that others plundered and made the millions from).

He dies before testing it, and his heir finds it in going through the belongings....A middle-aged guy, stuck in llife. Goes back to - of course - puberty. But he's who he is now, trying to hit on 18 year old college girls....

He's disappeared in "real time" and so his wife comes looking, discovers the machine and finds how superfluous and overprotective life as a little girl can be after all.

Then their kid comes looking, then a neighbor wonders what's going on. Someone left the door open and a bunch of neighborhood dogs wander in....finally the police get involved....
quartziteflight

climber
Dec 26, 2008 - 10:10am PT
hossJulia,


That's a cool story.
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2008 - 01:35pm PT
The charming thing about the hippopotamus song is that it was sung in 1953 by Gayla Peevey, a ten year old girl from Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City zoo later used the song to help fundraise so that it could "buy a hippo for Gayla", which it did. The hippo, named Matilda, cost about $3,000, and lived for over 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayla_Peevey

Alas! There was no hippo waiting in the snowdrift by my back door this morning. No photo, either - perhaps it got missed in the shuffle?
Captain...or Skully

Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
Dec 26, 2008 - 01:38pm PT
Maybe it's in the OTHER drift......
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