Hippo 'cub'? Really RTE?

Demonique

Did anyone else catch the report on the baby pygmy hippo in Poland where the reporter referred to the baby as a cub?

Did Momma hippo get knocked up by a wolf, bear or big cat?

Superbus

Tell me without Googling what a baby hippo is called.

Unless it is called a baby hippo, in which case, carry on.

fonecrusher1

hungry hungry.....

mikom

Superbus wrote: »

Tell me without Googling what a baby hippo is called.

Unless it is called a baby hippo, in which case, carry on.

calf

King Felix

That's very hippo-critical of you, OP.

BluesBerry

a baby hippo is called a calf

Adamcp898

Some would say AH is a lot like a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos

DOC09UNAM

A++ thread would read again, keep it up.

Superbus

mikom wrote: »

calf

Well then... poor show RTE.

Not that that's a new concept.

mikom

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Some would say AH is a lot like a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos

Posters get their asses slapped to open their mouths and swallow a load of balls.

bonerm

Apparently Hippos kill more humans per year than any other animal.

(If RTE journalists are reading, feel free to use this totally unresearched "information" in future bulletins.)

bonerm

bonerm wrote: »

Apparently Hippos kill more humans per year than any other animal.

(If RTE journalists are reading, feel free to use this totally unresearched "information" in future bulletins.)

A hippo sneaked into my house and ate my babies! :eek:

karlog

A baby hippo is called a hippet. I'm not gonna bother googling it cause i know its right.........................

Biggins

This thread needs an injection of something interesting!
So...

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

E.T.

And a daddy hippo's called a hippopotamousse. They're strawberry flavoured and were used to make yogurt type things in the nineties.

DOC09UNAM

Biggins wrote: »

This thread needs an injection of something interesting!
So...

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

Thread is still in need of something interesting, cause that wasn't.

PeterIanStaker

bonerm wrote: »

Apparently Hippos kill more humans per year than any other animal.

(If RTE journalists are reading, feel free to use this totally unresearched "information" in future bulletins.)

Its from a source, RTE wont touch it!

Biggins

Biggins wrote: »

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

Donkey Oaty

Biggins, you left out this:

51. The majority of the above "facts" have been systematically debunked elsewhere.

Biggins

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Biggins, you left out this:

51. The majority of the above "facts" have been systematically debunked elsewhere.

Which ones and links to show this?
(I'm sure some are - I'm interested to know which ones and see how or why so? Links?)

Rothmans

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Thread is still in need of something interesting, cause that wasn't.

meow!

prinz

bluewolf wrote: »

You're right. It's a mistake. The V. stands for versus. The problem is in the translation, as the latin word versus doesn't mean one party opposing another as we understand versus to mean. In a court citation it refers to two opposing parties, against each other in law. Technically it stands for versus, linguistically the use of v. means nothing in terms of a court case.

Donkey Oaty

Biggins wrote: »

Which ones and links to show this?
(I'm sure some are - I'm interested to know which ones and see how or why so? Links?)

Too many to go into, but you could start by googling Colgate in Spanish, the equine statue, the bats turning left, the zinc in hair thing, using the word "myth" in the search engine.

The discussions are far more interesting than the "facts"!

some_dose

Biggins wrote: »

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

Not true. When you die your skin contracts giving the illusion of continued growth of the fingernails and hair

Coriolanus

Biggins wrote: »

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

Interesting further fact. This is because women used to be dressed by maids. Most maids were right handed, so the buttons were orientated to the wearers left so the maid could more easily do them.
Men dressed themselves, so they needed their buttons orientated to their own use.

Biggins

Cheers for the possible corrections - there is life in this thread! :cool:

bonzodog2

Biggins wrote: »

This thread needs an injection of something interesting!
So...

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex

10 raised to the power of a (1+a hundred zeros)

I can't comment on your other alleged facts right now

On hippo's babies, calf springs to mind, but bearing in mind the literal derivation of hippopotamus from the greek being "river horse", maybe it should be foal ?

Donkey Oaty

bonzodog2 wrote: »

On hippo's babies, calf springs to mind, but bearing in mind the literal derivation of hippopotamus from the greek being "river horse", maybe it should be foal ?

The China Daily and The Hindu both go with "cub". I think we calf fans might be outnumbered.

Coriolanus

It'll be a Reuters or AP fúck up, if everyone is doing it.

MistyCheese

THat's nice 'n all Biggins but how many of them are true?

Executive Steve

Biggins wrote: »

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

My stepmother made a statue of Thomas Meagher (the man who brought the first Tricolour to Ireland) down in Waterford, she'd never even heard of the equestrian statue code.

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

Biggins

MistyCheese wrote: »

THat's nice 'n all Biggins but how many of them are true?

Lord knows but its a lot more interesting finding out than the first post!

Wheels within wheels... Methods within the madness

klose

King Felix wrote: »

That's very hippo-critical of you, OP.

jesus..

Liam Byrne

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

Gonna play devil's advocate......what happens if the pleasing thing is a very bright light ?

DominoDub

Has your man been riding Hippos again ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZTW30fAQY

shanew

Biggins wrote: »

.....
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
...

dont know if wikipedia counts as a source...

6 myth - src : snopes
http://www.snopes.com/history/titanic/sos.asp

25 - Volney was the trainer rather than the Lion - Slats was the first lion used (there were several) src: wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_%28MGM%29

32 myth - src :snopes
http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.asp

49 myth - src QI (** I've just seen that Executive Steve already mentioned this)


Shane

anniehoo

Biggins wrote: »

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog!

Thats not true either. Biggins did you just google "random makey uppy statements" and post them for the craic?

muffy

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Too many to go into, but you could start by googling Colgate in Spanish, the equine statue, the bats turning left, the zinc in hair thing, using the word "myth" in the search engine.

The discussions are far more interesting than the "facts"!

Colgar means to hang, I'm pretty sure colgate does mean "hang yourself"

Donkey Oaty

muffy wrote: »

Colgar means to hang, I'm pretty sure colgate does mean "hang yourself"

It's an interesting one. Here are what other people have said:

The tú command would be "cuélgate," not "colgate," because colgar is a stem-changing verb, but that doesn't even make sense because colgar means to hang up something, whereas the verb ahorcar is used to refer to a person hanging himself. So, if you wanted to tell someone to hang himself, you would say, "Ahórcate."

The Colgate note is only PARTLY accurate. “Hang yourself” would be “Cuelgate” or using the infinitive as imperative (sometimes done in Spanish), “Colgarte.” “Colgate” is an unfortunate amalgam of the two possible forms for giving such an order, but does NOT mean what you indicate it means.

However someone else says this:

It CAN mean “hang yourself” in the imperative (command) form in countries like Argentina and Uruguay where the stress of the verb is on the “a” and therefore the “o” does not dipthong to “ue”.

The myth is that "Colgate faced problems". There's no evidence of that at all.

Raze_them_all

Biggins wrote: »

This thread needs an injection of something interesting!
So...


32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

This is false. Your skin dehydrates and tightens thus giving the effect of growth. It does not grow.

mathepac

Biggins wrote: »

This thread needs an injection of something interesting! ...

Some vaguely interesting, some incorrect, for example -

Biggins wrote: »

... 6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. ...

Incorrect. Titanic sank in 1912, SOS was first used as a distress signal in 1909. Titanic's Marconi operators broadcast both SOS and QCD, the distress signal that pre-dated the international adoption of SOS in 1908. Use of CQD died out shortly after Titanic sank.

The Hippopotamus was invented by Hippocrates, who tiring of playing tame water-polo matches in Archimedes' bath, wanted a more challenging, violent version of the game.

During an international friendly match in the famous Nile Aquadrome against the ancient Egyptians, the Greek teams hippopotami escaped and have been breeding in the wild since.

Technically, as hippopotamus translates to "water-horse" in English, a young hippopotamus is known as a foal, or a MacDonald's frequenter.

muffy

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

It's an interesting one. Here are what other people have said:





However someone else says this:


The myth is that "Colgate faced problems". There's no evidence of that at all.

Edit: grammar fail on my part (hate radical changing verbs)

MaybeLogic

Biggins wrote: »

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

Mayday rest in peace.