http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/rollin-rollin-rollin-herding-river-horses/ Logistics for global health and aid Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/rollin-rollin-rollin-herding-river-horses/#comment-11286 Michael Keizer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:41:14 +0000 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/?p=819#comment-11286 I had hardly posted this when I was already taken to task that, this time, I had really gone overboard in the obscurity of my puns. So, with my abject apologies, an explanation: - The word 'hippopotamus' is derived from the Greek for 'horse of the river' (which probably means that one of those old Greeks must have had too much Retsina, or that they had very strange horses in ye olde Greece). - So 'Hippo Roller' could be sort of translated as 'rolling horse'. Yes, sort of. - And then there is of course the link with this: <embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-3026666663113592701&hl=en&fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed> I had hardly posted this when I was already taken to task that, this time, I had really gone overboard in the obscurity of my puns. So, with my abject apologies, an explanation:
- The word ‘hippopotamus’ is derived from the Greek for ‘horse of the river’ (which probably means that one of those old Greeks must have had too much Retsina, or that they had very strange horses in ye olde Greece).
- So ‘Hippo Roller’ could be sort of translated as ‘rolling horse’. Yes, sort of.
- And then there is of course the link with this:

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