post-next -Ted Drake's sketchbook » dwarf http://www.tdrake.net Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:25:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Did you hear about the hippo that ate the dwarf http://www.tdrake.net/hippo-that-ate-the-dwarf/ http://www.tdrake.net/hippo-that-ate-the-dwarf/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:26:09 +0000 Ted Drake http://www.tdrake.net/?p=467 This is almost too funny to be true. So let’s just imagine that it is.

hippo eats a dwarf
Here’s the story in text:

Hippo Eats Dwarf

BANGKOK: A hippopotamus swallowed a circus dwarf in a “freak accident” in northern Thailand, according to a columnist in the Pattaya Mail.

The Grapevine column reported: “A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently when he bounded sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act.

“Vets said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex which caused her to swallow. More than 1000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realised there had been a tragic mistake.”

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