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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 24, 2006 - 05:17pm PT
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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
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Dec 24, 2006 - 07:35pm PT
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I am a hippopotamus.
And that is O.K.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Dec 24, 2006 - 07:55pm PT
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Very good. It reminds me of my youth when I ask for a T-Rex for Christmas. Santa Claus was a disappointment that year.
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Dec 24, 2006 - 07:58pm PT
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Although probably not as bad as if you actually got a T-Rex, and he ate your whole neighborhood...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2006 - 08:08pm PT
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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.
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Captain...or Skully
Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dec 25, 2008 - 11:52pm PT
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I'm a walrus, but only when it snows........Ask SirLoin.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 26, 2008 - 02:59am PT
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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?
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal Hell
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Dec 26, 2008 - 03:01am PT
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As a teen I wanted a dirt bike but my mother said, "girls don't ride motorcycles"...argh!!!!!!!!!
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Dec 26, 2008 - 03:37am PT
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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.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 26, 2008 - 04:17am PT
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"What do I want? A time machine."
What if Time Machines just sent us back every bit as old as we are now?
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Dec 26, 2008 - 08:28am PT
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"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....
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quartziteflight
climber
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Dec 26, 2008 - 10:10am PT
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hossJulia,
That's a cool story.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2008 - 01:35pm PT
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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?
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Captain...or Skully
Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dec 26, 2008 - 01:38pm PT
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Maybe it's in the OTHER drift......
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