Comments on: Mini Linkblogging Wednesdays

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:30:28 +0000

Though hippos mourn their dead during the day, it’s when they think we can’t see that they feast. And not only are they not above cannibalism, they get anthrax poisoning from it.

By my faultless American reasoning, this makes hippos the new WMDs/suicide bombers for the Taliban(imal).

By: VersasoVantare

VersasoVantare — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:09:08 +0000

I guess the Hippos just ran the bears off of the continent.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:57:38 +0000

Australia has koala bears and drop bears.

By: Parout

Parout — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:00:57 +0000

I Googled it, and turns out there ARE bears in Australia. Koala bears anyway, I didn’t really see anything on other kinds of bears, but oh well.

Also, there apparently used to be bears in North Africa, but they have all been killed out.

By: Parout

Parout — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:43:49 +0000

Does Australia have bears?

By: DistantFred

DistantFred — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:37:53 +0000

Supergp: No, they are Africa’s Bears. Africa is the only continent without bears. It’s also the only continent with Hippos. There’s likely some kind of treaty agreement about this between them; Hippos get Africa, Bears get the other continents, Antarctica is left to the penguins.

By: supergp

supergp — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:53:21 +0000

Thanks to MGK, hippos are the new bears.

By: DistantFred

DistantFred — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:34:38 +0000

Along with “I SHOULD BUY A CIRCUS!” the high points of the Bruce Wayne: Argument Against Inheritance discussion there are the Bernie Madoff comparisons, and the “Too annoying for the Joker to kill” bits.

You kind of have to figure that given the way his character played out normally (by dressing up in a goofy suit and “avenging” his parents by arresting the same 8 dudes over, and over, and over again, to the point where he is psychologically incapable of even just letting any of the die) that he’d be just fully committed to using his money for whatever petty obsessions he came up with.

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Skemono: One thinks he should have been afeared of rays a touch more, given his fate.

By: sonofzeal

sonofzeal — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:56:01 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HippoJaw.jpg

^ I think this one’s hungry….

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:14:30 +0000

Are you saying hippos are hungry? And also, hungry?

By: Suzene

Suzene — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:09 +0000

Scary thing is, hippos have been observed chowing down on meat in the wild, particularly during times of drought. It’s just generally less effort and risk of overheating to nom veggies. And they’re not above cannibalism. Yeep!

By: Master Mahan

Master Mahan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:38:22 +0000

Technically, mosquitoes kill more people, but they do it indirectly. But yes, hippopotamuses are scary bastards. You don’t want to mess with something that can weigh four tons and still run faster than you.

Plus, they twirl their tail around when they defecate, creating a massive shower of shit. The Predator never did that, except in a couple of Dark Horse comics.

By: Dayv

Dayv — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:41:23 +0000

That Batman stuff is funny, but the overuse of “all” made me want to hurt myself.

By: Skemono

Skemono — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:45:37 +0000

It's true, hippos are horrible, vicious creatures.

The late Steve Irwin, a man who used to tackle 12-foot crocodiles for fun and wave angry snakes filled with kill-you-before-your-next-heartbeat poison at a camera, considered a five-minute sequence where his camera team had to cross a river filled with hippos to be the single most dangerous moment ever filmed on his show. The man who toyed with crocodiles, was scared shitless of hippos.

As well he should have been. Hippos bully crocodiles, kick the shit out of them, decide to chase them around.

By: Dregoth

Dregoth — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:59:17 +0000

I’m just picturing sullen teenage Bruce being asked to take out the garbage, and when he finally does so after a long argument, he walks out in the rain. As he drops the garbage into the can, a bolt of lightning flashes across the sky, and in a moment of extreme teen angst he screams “MY PARENTS ARE ALIVE!”