Please Note: 100% fiction!
“What is with the hippo and why a hippo? It’s not the school’s mascot. Heck, I don’t know what school would have a hippo as a mascot.” Myra and I were sitting on the bench across from the hippo statue. It hadn’t always been there. I would know, I sit here every day.
Myra took a bite out of her sandwich. “Do you think the look on its face is shame or on the verge of blackmail?”
I tried to decipher the look on the hippo’s face but wound up perplexed, wondering what the artist was thinking at that moment.
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Thant would fit in my hippo collection!!
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😂😂😂
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I enjoyed your contemplation about purpose.
I found something from December 25, 2017. I think they’re recruiting students for a college where they allow a hippopotamus to swim on campus on Christmas night. They’re also studying the hippocampus part of the brain:
Hippopotamus College
by Douglas Gilbert
She’s lucubrating at night fall
about sea monsters
potamusly swimming
in jelly jetsam lights
pine needles and all
But a hip hippo studies in studio
Christmas night at her river university
having horse sense to never forget
to avoid a tree and to remember the
elephant in the hippocampus annex
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I wonder what Myra was thinking, eating a sandwich in front of a hippo. That’s just asking for trouble!
Curious, I did a little digging around. Central Texas High School is the only school that has a hippo as a mascot. https://www.huttotx.gov/481/Hutto-Hippos
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Wow! I’ve been to a lot of school and the only school with an animal mascot was my middle school, which was a bulldog and I thought that was plenty weird. A hippo as a mascot, the sports games at that school must be interesting to watch.
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I imagine you’re right! All the schools here where I live have animal mascots; ours is the tiger. 🐅
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On the other hand, most of the mascots around my part are ancient warriors.
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My local school had a severe rivalry with a neighbouring school. Their mascots were respectively, a coyote and a roadrunner. I never found out whether that was deliberate!
Gotta choose something, I suppose. Why not a hippo?!
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i see a smirk on its face. it seems to say, “gotcha!”
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I see the smirk, too, but it seems to say, “caught ya” 😂
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A perplexing question indeed. What are artists ever thinking? 😉
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Haha, what are they thinking indeed.
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I think her expression says ‘Don’t mess with me.’ Good story.
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Haha, that’s one way to put it. 😀
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