I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

[ET Awful]

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!

[Shell Beau]

1. You know hippos can snap your head right off your shoulders!!

:o


:P

[ET Awful]

2. LOL . . . that's okay, I'll risk it

:P

[Shell Beau]

6. That's okay, I am fascinated by hippos and want one myself.

:P

[ET Awful]

10. Like this guy?

Lookit the widdle baby hippo! :bounce:

[Shell Beau]

14. Awww, he such cute wittle cuddly wuddly thing!

:blush:

[ET Awful]

15. Just proves that baby pretty much anythings are cute

:P

[Hugin]

3. Would you settle for an after hippo mint?

We're fresh out of Hippo Hollandaise.

[ET Awful]

11. LOL . . . I guess.

If that's the best you can do :P

[madinmaryland]

4. Here ya go . . . .

[trof]

5. No. If we give you one, then we'll have to give everybody one.

And there just aren't enough to go around.
But you can have a cookie.

[dolo amber]

8. ...

:D :thumbsup:

[ET Awful]

12. ROFL

:rofl:

:spray:

Where's my cookie? :P

[MN ChimpH8R]

7. You may want to think twice

after reading this little bit of info from Cecil Adams' "The Straight Dope"

"The hippopotamus, for instance, is said to mark jungle trails by excreting a lethal mixture of urine and feces while twirling its tail like a propeller. This may explain the historically sluggish market for pet hippopotamuses."

More at http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_011.html

[ET Awful]

9. LMAO, and all this time I thought it was just space and food constraints

:P

[bertha katzenengel]

13. Boy, that must've been fun on the Ark.

:rofl: