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Hippo Boat
FOUND by Scott Gilbert
in Oklahoma
Found this left behind from an eviction in front of an old house.
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well I don't care who you are... that's just fun right there!
Well, now I know what I'm doing for the next family reunion- renting a HIPPO BOAT!
What fun!
I want one. Right now.
there is not enough hyperbole
to tell you how it seems to be
to take a hippo boat to sea
it just seems very hip to me
todays my birthday! and i think that is what i will do.
I gotta get me one of them!! What a way to arrive at work!
Um. This does not look like a hippo to me.
But it Does look like a hill of fun!!! I am very afraid for the red bird perched on the nose!!
are you people blind? that is clearly an alligatorboat.
For some reason, I can't get the "Gilligan's Island" theme song out of my head when I look at this.
My first reaction was that this was NOT a hippo boat... but after more serious consideration I have deemed that it is indeed a hippo boat.
1) No alligator teeth.
2) Absence of tail.
If someone went to enough trouble to make the head (albeit a bit on the long side)... if it were a gator... where is the tail?
Yeah I didn't think it was a hippo either, but Missing is right. And if you look at the mouth, it looks like an alligator because of how long it is, but you can tell that it is way too wide to be an alligator.
But aside from all that, this looks like loads of fun and I really want one. I wonder if the person who took the picture knew these people? or if (s)he was just as confused and delighted as we are?
IS THIS WHAT I'M TO LOOK FORWARD TO IF I WERE VACATIONING IN OKLAHOMA?
no SALT, not Oklahoma, but Mississippi for sure. Looks like the Tombigbee, or as the locals call it, the Big Ditch, to me. fun for sure.
this is definilaty the best was to cruise the strip!
Oooooooooooooklahoma where the hippo goes floating down the stream
where the people you meet
will clearly greet all floaters doing the saaa-aaame...
This reminds me of a race that they used to have here in Ontario, on the Beaver River. The town of Thornbury hosted the Beaver River Rat Race, and people would float their homemade rafts down the Beaver River. The more creative, the better. This woulda won first prize, for sure.
And its clearly not an alligator. The bird on the tip of its snout gives it away. You know, those birds that clean its teeth.
I think the person at the head of the boat is wearing a Santa Claus suit....
There is something about water creatures that frighten me a little. I know that the hippo isn't real, but it gives me shivers. I may be a wuss, but I don't know about getting near the front of the hippo boat.
Maybe if I had a few cocktails first.
Shivvvvvvverrrrrrrrrr!
I COULD GOOGLE A DECENT NUMBER OF RED RIVER PHOTOGRAPHS THAT ARE NOT TOO UNLIKE THIS PICTURE. IT COULD BE OKLAHOMA
I admire the person who spent all that time making a very worthy hippo boat! I wonder where it is now...
Lost, you are only halfway paranoid, because hippos are actually quite dangerous when riled up! I don't know about hippo boats, though.
the pic was found in Oklahoma, not much of a stretch to think the pic was taken there, too. Why would you think Mississippi? I could say it looks like part of the Trent-Severn waterway, but i'd be wrong.
evictions make me sad. and it makes me sad when people get excited to go get things out of an evicted person's yard.
IS KATIE A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER?
I'm sure people who don't pay their rent make their landlords sad.
This looks like good clean summer time fun. A few friends, a Santa suit, some psychadelic mushrooms and a boat that looks like a hoppopotamus.
Oh, I needed a laugh today, and this made me chuckle the minute I saw it. IS Santa riding on the hippoboat? That just looks like so much fun. I've never seen anythingn like it. I can't stop staring. Thanks, Found!
Um, creepy, anyone? C'mon, somebody had to say it.
MAYBE THE WERE EVICTED NOT BECUASE THEY COULDN'T MAKE RENT BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD 12 CATS AND THE PLACE SMELLED OF AMMONIA. MAYBE BECAUSE THEY WERE SELLING A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF POT OUT THE PLACE. MAYBE THEY HAD A METH LAB IN THE SPARE BEDROOM. MAYBE THEY WERE EVICTED BECAUSE THEY TRASHED THE PLACE AND REFUSED TO REPLACE A SCREEN DOOR.
This is what all of my nightmares look like.
(Happy Birthday, delani)
totally a hippo.
and totally amazing.
Hippos are officially the 'Next Coolest Thing.' In a few years, Paris Hilton will be going around in one, preaching bible verses to young women in prison for DUI.
Did you know that Calvin Coolidge had a pet pygmy hippo? His name was Billy and almost all the pygmy hippos in American zoos are his descendents. I really hope they are the next big thing!
Mona, I thought Severn Trent Water was in central England, so I was puzzled by the sub-tropical greenery and the sandy beaches (not to mention the hippo boat). But I see that yours is in Canada! Looks lovely. Loved your Oklahoma song too (and Silliness’s).
Hippo-de-doo-dah...
I hope these are the evicted people having some fun before they ran out of cash to pay the rent. Still, I’m with Lost there – I don’t think you’d catch me risking life and limb riding in one of those (or a Beaver River Rat, for that matter).
Jonathan, we have a stratford, an avon river, london, trent river, waterloo, severn river, a town called midland. I could go on for days.
you would feel right at home. The hot summer weather might give you some pause, tho.
Wow, thanks, Mona. Well, we have had a few hot sunny days lately, but a coupla weeks ago the heavens opened and a lot of England is under several feet of water (and it came in through my roof and my ceiling fell down. Pah). Canada is definitely on my list of nice places and nice people to visit (maybe not in the winter though).
Now I’m off to the Albert Hall (I expect you have one of those too) – the Proms being one of the good things about an English summer!
omg jonathan. the choir i'm in has done the 'last night of the proms' a few times..what fun. I wish i was going with you.
i know, not supposed to clog up the comments by commenting on other commenter's comments. But i do.
wave a flag for me, jonathan.
Oops, yes, we'd better get off the airwaves and leave the field free for serious discussions (you know, the ones about pygmy hippos and Paris Hilton and cat's pee). Bye for now xxx
If there were about 20 other ridiculous looking rafts, this could easily be KRMG's Great Tulsa Raft Race. The best way to get laughed at was to show up with a normal boat.
And Salt, if you manage to find the one city in Oklahoma that isn't full of hillbillies, rednecks, meth heads and pregnant teenage hillbilly redneck meth-addicted girls, Oklahoma's not that bad. We even legalized tattooing last year, for fuck sake!
I think not paying rent (or having too many cats) makes landlords angry more than sad. Cuz, y'know, landlords are bourgeois and they don't have genuine feelings, only the desire to oppress and exploit others.
Last i checked minor repairs like screen doors are the landlord's responsibility. These hippo riders ought to have called tenet rights on the bastards, then they'd still have a place to live and wouldn't have stranger's rifling through their personal belongings and posting them on the internet.
There's a hippo boat not unlike this one in Toronto. It can go on both water and land. I think the canadian armed forces should start using them.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE LANDLORD AND THE CONTRACT. THE LANDLORD BASICALLY HAVE FREE REIGN WHEN RENTING OUT A HOUSE. THEY COULD HAVE VIOLATED IT A NUMBER OF TERMS.
I THINK THAT IF I WERE A LANDLORD AND MY TENANTS UNHINGED THE SCREEN DOOR BY WAY OF KICKING IT ALL THE HELL IT WOULD BE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY
ANYWAY, THE POINT WAS THAT KATIE IS A LUNATIC
It is a little sad to think that one moment you can be riding high on the Hippo Boat of Life and the next you are getting kicked out of your home. Fate can be twisty, unpredictable, and often cruel. I hope the children will remember this fun river ride when they are living out on the streets and eating out of trash cans.
It's clearly a hipaligapotamus.
I'm sure that lessors are as guilty as lessees, in not maintaining their side of the contract.
I don't think Katie is an idiot, SALT, just terribly naive. Rather than a kindergarten teacher, i wonder if she's just terribly young.
Turbo, did this legalizing tattoos just come about recently? Another acquaintance of mine mentioned this the other day. Who know Oklahomans were so desperate for body art.
This is from "The Great Raft Race" in Tulsa, it was an annual race where you could inter any homemade raft, I'm not sure if restrictions applied, but it went on for years then they just quit doing it.
THIS IS ON THE ARKANSAS RIVER
Don't knock it until you try. Riding in a Hippo Boat or any other uniquely creative water vessel is the definition of fun. You get to be silly, let loose your inhibitions, for some of you it would be finally being able to pull that stick out of your butt. Look at the people on the side, even they are getting joy from the Hippo Boat. This is what the world needs, more Hippo Boats and less stuck up people too good to live and enjoy the simple things in life. Get over yourself, smile and have some fun for a change.
Yes!! That makes my day. I love the hippo... I want one.
I think Bored is right - Santa IS at the front of the miraculous Hippoboat. I wonder if Santa vacations in Oklahoma.
Kitten, everyone knows that Santa spends his free time hanging in Oklahoma Shitty with the Flaming Lips.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philofphotos/1744
Mona, tattoos were legalized November of last year. Now the only place in the world you can't get tattooed is Iraq. It's not that we were "desperate" to get body art, it was that we looked like a bunch of Bible-throwin', snake-handlin' backwoods fucktards being dead last in the new millennium. We'ez a real state naw!
In addition to recently legalizing tattoos, Oklahoma only very recently (2 years ago? help me out Turbo!) legalized the freaking lottery.
Those two things were illegal forever, and it took huge legal fights and votes. But cockfighting? No problem, it's all good here. I think it's just us and one other state. How wonderfully nauseating.
I forgot to add- nobody-I repeat NOBODY- vacations here. Wtf would you come here to see or do? Trust me, the only thing to do here is nap. And/or sweat.
Well, congrats to all of you that hail from that state. I didnt think that kind of governmental control still occurred in this day and age. Glad to see that's over. How are you guys doing on gay marriage? or is that not even on the horizon yet?
Well, congrats to all of you that hail from that state. I didnt think that kind of governmental control still occurred in this day and age. Glad to see that's over. How are you guys doing on gay marriage? or is that not even on the horizon yet?
http://www.travelok.com/vacationIdeas/getaways.asp
this here site says there's lots to do, whether you stay two days or two weeks.
This photo reminds me of being a kid and riding my mom down the river. She was a alligator/hippo hybrid too.
If I lived in OK, I think I would HOLD the Bible and throw the SNAKE. Just sayin'....
Am I the only one who didn't think it was a boat at first? It looks kinda like it has legs. I could see it being some odd thing people swim out to, instead of the normal boring concrete slab on posts. (but y'all are probably right.)
This photo makes me feel so happy. I think anyone who made and sold hippo boats would soon be a very rich person.
Mickey, thankfully Louisiana is the only place where you can fight your cock. Although I would never consider visiting Oklahoma (since I live here), there are some things to see. People came from all over the world in June to see the unearthing of the buried 1957 Plymouth Belvedere! (www.buriedcare.com) So ha! :) As for the lottery, I think it was about 2 years ago. The only reason why that happened is because the Indians were getting all of our money at their casinos that, to me, seemed to just pop up all over the place with no mention in the news.
Mona, we ain't never gonna let them queers violate the sanktittie of marraige...
The thing that I've noticed is that just about everyone thinks that the Hippo People were the ones that were evicted. This picture could be of friends. Or relatives. Maybe they left it on purpose because they didn't like to be reminded that Grandma was a crazy Hippo Boat Captain and that they wasted all their rent money on the asylum.
wow, you all must have a lot of time on your hands if you can spend all day commenting on some dumb picture!
joe--all we really got is time. Timwe and vienna sausages.
Joe, wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands if you can spend a second commenting on some comments!
Joe: You're here LOOKING at said 'dumb picture' as well as commenting on other's comments. I could say the same for you.
And yes, actually. Yes I do.
You remind me of a little story. Something about a pot and a kettle.
We also spend time posting on some dumb letters, dumb fliers, dumb grocery lists and dumb posts. Just be glad you spelled everything right. That really gets it goin' on.
it doesn't take much to set you people off does it?
HAHAHA
FYI - I am going to steal the "time and vienna sausages" line and use once the opportunity presents itself. Reminds me of something you would hear on Monty Python.
Turbo- when did we outlaw cockfighting? I can't believe I missed that shit! Did the ban pass in the 05 vote?
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it is illegal to sell (but not own) porn showing any type of penetration in Oklahoma. So all you can get is the soft crap unless you order from elsewhere.
Also, Mona Lisa, not only is gay marriage not on the horizon, but in 2004 this ignorant, bigotted (one t or two?) state voted pretty decisively to ban it.
I was not getting angry at all. I was actually just pointing out that I do post because I am bored as hell. Then added that if you spell something wrong, you're up shit creek. I could care less if you can't spell. Maybe I should have worded it differently by not saying anything at all.
Mickey, you can buy penetration porn in Oklahoma, you just have to have the time and patience to peel all the stickers off the real action. The "newsstand" guy has to go through with one of those grocery store price guns and censor the hibbity-dibbity. It can get a little sticky.
I was just kidding - why so bored?
I was thinking more of porn video. I don't think you can buy penetration video here. Can we? If so, I guess I've been missing out, dammit!
I don't want anything to do with any state where it's perfectly legal to ride hippos, but not buy vibrators.
Happiness is hippos and vibrators.
Until I am in a big-ass tour bus, traveling the world, getting drunk and playing music, I will always be bored. (I dull the pain with FOUND)(and booze)
We just bought 3 very expensive navy frigates from the Australians - we needed to come to Oklahoma and purchase several thousand Hippo boats. No one would dare to attack us.
As to Oklahoma - get with the times. NZ gave women the vote in 1893. Civil unions were legalised a few years ago and you can buy as much penetrative porn as your heart desires at the corner store. We also have an annual gay parade and, for the heteros, "Boobs on Bikes". That's not just boobs on bikes of course - they are attached to real women. Please come and visit. Sorry, no hippo boats but we do a mean ski biscuit.
My cubicle happens to be in Oklahoma. You canNOT sell porn here that shows penetration. Cockfighting has only been illegal since 2005 or so and one of the other idiosyncrasies of this crazy little back water is the beer. In convenience stores/grocery stores it's only 3.2% alcohol. You have to go to a liquor store to get anything stronger than 3.2% alcohol, it is not refridgerated, and they don't have major national brands because they are only allowed in the 3.2 variety. Gay marriage? Too many people here are either openly bigoted or disguise their bigotry behind religion for that to ever happen.
AND I THOUGHT IT WAS RIDICULOUS THAT SODOMY WAS UNLAWFUL HERE VIA THE TEXAS PENAL CODE
Turbo,
Is that "up shit creek" without a hippo boat? Because that would be bad! ; )
i'm excited to here all this little oklahomaisms.. makes me feel like i live in an open minded progressive state. :)
hahahaha.
SALT- your first comment today actually made me laugh out loud.
No offense to Katie what-so-ever - I think Katie is a thoughtful human being.
But something about that comment SALT - just made me laugh. Thank you kindly.
I really needed that today.
(Probably because I think I know what you were getting at w/that comment...I won't elaborate because I think it's obivous. I know a lot of people who work with children daily - let's just leave it at that.)
Hippo or Alligator - it's a fun looking river ride. This picture reminds me of a cheesey postcard.
I took the Hippo Challenge on MXC.
you gotta hand it to those mexicans, they are damn creative.
Oklahoma is a beautiful state with wonderful people! It's a friendly place to live where you can trust your neighbors. Oklahoma City is sophisticated and even follows the New York fashion trends - much like Beverly Hills or Dallas. There is tremendous support for music and the arts. The politicians are by-and-large honest, the prisons are humane, the farmers are literate (even well read in many cases), and characters are welcome. We love our June bugs, crawdads, Native Americans and clean red earth. Our schools are top rated. You always know where you are because the name of the town is on the grain elevator or water tower. If you break down on the highway, three people will stop to help you. And you may think we have a problem with meth and such, but you don't see Oklahoma drivers falling asleep at the wheel like they do in Connecticut. Liquor is still frowned upon by many and people who commit adultery are openly scolded. Going to church every Sunday is what most people do. "Controversy" entails discussing the differences between the worship services of the Methodists and Presbyterians. Abortion is almost unheard of because young people tend to save themselves for marriage. People make good livings here doing honest work and housing is affordable. People respect one another. It's a great place to raise a family. We teach our young people how to handle firearms properly and to respect them, so we don't have angry teenagers shooting up the schools. People still say, Yes sir and Thank you ma'am and are proud to fly the flag on holidays. We know the value of a dollar and we don't spend our money on showy frivolities. A man may drive a twenty year old pickup truck, but his John Deere combine is worth $250,000. Our colleges graduate some of the finest scholars in the midwest. Children can still play outside and walk to school without our worrying about perverts snatching them off the street. And nothing is as beautiful as the Oklahoma countryside, with its rolling hills, lovely trees, vital waterways and rich red earth. In fact, the thing that surprises people the most when they visit Oklahoma is just how beautiful it is and what a great place it is to live.
Unknown to many is that Oklahoma is also a hotbed of Catholicism and other marginal religions, which we tolerate and accept as a necessary part of our American freedom. We support our troops in the war against terrorism in Iraq and New York. We stand behind President Bush.
I'm not saying that Oklahoma is perfect. We are learning to cope with racial diversity, rap music and cable television, among other things. Cell phones threaten to eliminate the face-to-face communication that has perpetuated good manners and a congenial society for a century and a half. And although not well known outside Oklahoma, UFO sightings and alien abductions have been on a steady rise for the past two decades, beginning shortly after the election of Bill Clinton.
But in the end, if you're tired of the hollow, fast-paced lifestyle of the left coast, Oklahoma and its people will welcome you with open arms into the heartland of America, the real America, where our cherished values are still practiced and revered.
Doesn't SALT usually berate others for not commenting on the find? His first comment, funny or not, was to berate someone elses comment. HUH?
DID YOU COPY AND PASTE THAT MUMBO-JUMBO FROM A TOURISM WEBSITE
NO, HERES THE STORY
I GET TOLD OFF ON A REGULAR BASIS FOR REPLYING TO PEOPLE THAT TYPE AT ME BECUASE IT 'ISN'T ABOUT THE FIND'
How'd I do?
well, i'm proud to be an okie from muskogee--a place where even squares can have a ball....
Breaking news —— a rogue hippo boat, has just crashed into Interstate 35W bridge.
Wow. How long did it take you to type up that, Happy to Live? It sounded like...a commercial. For a church. In Oklahoma.
Ummm....ok. Good luck with that!
By the way: do they have hippos in Oklahoman commercials? for churches?
happy to live: i find it amusing that you refer to catholicism as a marginal religion. and i don't think its necessary to state that you stand behind bush and then state you're not perfect.
jaysus, show me your red neck.
Is it my imagination or did happy just disparage anyone who doesn't think like s/he does? or maybe it is just because I participate in a "marginal" religion or want my children to examine their own values.
The real America is in Oklahoma? I had no idea I was living in the fake America.
I would like to see the military utilize this hippo boat. Stealthy, hydrodynamic, powerful, camouflaged.
The heartland states can shove it :)
Thank you Ma'am.
(is it always the same 3 designated people to help you when your car breaks down?)
Oh my gosh.. it *IS* a hippo! The profile view threw me.
My first thought was it's an alligator, but upon further examination, it's a hippo for sure. How fun to ride a hippo. I guess the evicted people spent all their money on the ride, hope it was worth it. I too think it's sad they lost their home and this picture.
I thought it was al alligator as well, until I read a few comments and took another look. No teeth, not tail. Still, a hippo's even cooler, I think.
Always the same 3 designated people . . . I'm still smiling Pixi. I'm confused though, Oklahoma residents love their June bugs?? Are they special there? I've got them where I live too, only in June though, (go figure) and what's the UFO sentence mean, anyone?
Happy's was probably the funniest comment on here:
We know the value of a dollar and we don't spend our money on showy frivolities...and even follows the New York fashion trends - much like Beverly Hills or Dallas.
Hilarious!
But, ya know, hometown pride is important. cause home is where the heart is and if our home sucks, then where does that leave our heart? drifting downstream in a hippo boat?
Love the hippo boat....gotta love the hippo boat.
Now as for the Oklahoma comments had me laughing so hard my cheeks hurt. Way to go! As a former Okie, and yes one who still visits your all Correct!
Whatever this is, it's SUH-WEEEEEET. That's some downright fun-tastic afternoon right there.
I'm also reminded of the movie "Big Daddy" . . . "Hip. Hip-hop.
Hip-hop-apotomus. It's not fair, you give him the easy ones!"
The End.
For some reason, "Happy to Live in Oklihomie" makes me want to vom. Or maybe it's just the rough sailing on the Hippo Craft through choppy waters?
Ummm, guys, I'm "Happy to Live in Oklahoma," and I wrote that goofy midwestern spoof as a little gift for our beloved Turbo. I thought for sure you'd know it was me when I threw in the bit about aliens.
And no, SALT, I made it up from scratch. I sincerely hope that none of it is true.
Love you all --
Midlife
Happy to Live in Oklahoma, that's why Texans make fun of y'all.
(I can't repeat what we say about Californians.)
You crazy Crisis...lol.
Yep, Texans love to make fun of Oklamomaians, as my kids say, Oklahomos, (no offense) they're kids.
Bravo Midlife (or Happy), I thought I detected some ever so subtle irony in there! And what beautifully written and faultless English – why do the Grammar Police only pick up on the negative stuff??
But hey, the *real* America is Colorado, ain’t it? I know, I’ve read ‘Centennial’ (and I’ve been there – lovely landscapes, lovely people, thank you all). But seriously, all of America is the real America, that’s the point of the place. (And people in South American countries live in America too! Quite disconcerting to read a Marques or Vargas Llosa novel set in Peru or Bolivia and wonder why they keep saying they are in ‘America’ – oh, I see.)
Midlife, that 'rant' about oklahoma reminds me of a beer commercial, for Molson Canadian...... anyone seen it? or is that only up here in canada. too funny, a guy riffs for about a minute, about how we dont all live in igloos, etc.. too funny.
I FIGURED, MIDLIFE. IT WAS MY WAY OF PAYING A COMPLIMENT
Thanks for setting the record straight, Midlife. I about shit myself thinking some backwater jerk-off wrote it. Instead, it was some California jerk-off.
Yaaawwhahahahaha!
Very well done Midlife.
hahaha omg before I knew it was you Midlife, I was reading it furiously, mentally preparing my indignant replies about how our prisons are so humane that we execute people and the astronomical teen pregnancy rate, etc. And now that I know it was your satire I can't stop laughing! Funniest shit on Found in a while, Brav-O!
Oops, I forgot to add-
I didn't know you were in Oklahoma, Matt! In general I just assume that if a guy is witty and even moderately intelligent then he's never even driven through.
So welcome to the little Found Okie club- there are way more of us than I would ever have guessed! :)
Thank you for your kind comments. The last time I was in Oklahoma was exactly 45 years ago, just before my 13th birthday. I remember a rutted red road on the way to my maternal grandmother's house, collecting isenglass (clear mica), getting bit by chiggers, swimming in mineral springs, playing with blasting caps, being served a tall glass of half-and-half with every meal because my aunt thought I was too skinny, and -- I swear I'm not making this up -- "fishing" for crawdads with a piece of bacon tied to a string. Crawdads are little crab-like creatures that live in holes in the red mud. June bugs are large insects that live on screen doors in the evening.
One of my uncles had a bit of a temper and was know for repeatedly shooting his tractor with a shotgun. Did you know there's a seaport in Tulsa that is linked to the Gulf of Mexico by the Arkansas River?
My paternal grandmother was an English teacher in El Reno. Both of my parents entered college at Norman when they were 16 and left Oklahoma when they graduated at 20. Two of my cousins became physicians like their father.
My parents always disliked the midwest and felt the exhilaration of anonymity and opportunity when they arrived in Los Angeles shortly before the end of the war. Of course, having grown up in the smoggy suburbs of L. A., I longed for mountains and ocean and a gentler lifestyle, so I moved to Humboldt County (far northern California) the day after my 21st birthday. I've lived here all but three of the last 37 years.
When I was about 30 I had the most fantastic sex with a church organist from Oklahoma. She was incredible. I like to imagine that Oklahoma is full of hot church organists. Even today I can hardly listen to Bach's toccata and fugue in D-minor without becoming aroused.
I'm sad that some of our friends find their lives in Oklahoma less than great. I know I couldn't live there. Flat agricultural landscapes fill me with panic and despair. But I like to think there are still a lot of good people there, people who are smart and funny and post on FOUND.
that was really good. You had me going :)
I was confused by the left coast reference though, because I thought most people regarded the east coast as more fast paced, rude, etc. I've never lived in the midwest, I lived in AZ for a while and it seemed like everyone I met was a midwestern transplant (I think met 3 or 4 people actually born in raised in AZ the entire time I lived there). I felt like the biggest outcast in AZ, my way of life an my beliefs just seemed so out of whack with the midwestern thought. I was so thrilled to move back home...not just for the people, for the ocean too...the desert is not a good place for a fisheries biologist...
:)
Happy to live in Oklahoma you have obviously not read The Innocent Man by John Grisham. The prisons are the most inhumane in the state. I'm married to an Okie and I find from visiting Tulsa (bible thumping it may be) it is a den of iniquity underneath. I'de stick needles in my eyes before I would live there.
Another thing Happy, your comment was way to long. Save that speech for the Chamber of Commerce.
I just read Crisis comments. You can't really trust who wrote what anymore. Pixi you crack me up.
Hey Midlife, thanks for that. This is for old times’ sake:
http://www.silborg.net/vpg/bwv565_sg.mp3
Evidently, as it used to say in the music catalogues, ‘Bach’s organ works’ !!
I just adore this, and I love it even more that it was left in an evicted house. It seems sad, almost, like this family's happier times have been cut short by financial problems, but I like to think they remember their hippo days fondly and inspirationally...
when my boyfriend saw this picture he was like, "whoa, are they riding a hippo? i thought they were supposed to be really vicious!". And when my girlfriend went to fill in the spam protection question (what is the last month of the year) she wrote 12.
When I saw this, I thought it would be really hilarious to imagine that this was a drug trafficking vehicle, commandeered by some rogue landlubbers. I think coke lords would look really menacing with AK's riding in the hippo boat. lol.
The hippo looks rather upset doesn't he?
When my daughters were aged 1 and 4, they would play in our blow-up zebra boat at Lake Chelan in Washington State. This brought back happy memories. That was 10 years ago.
I think the umbrella in this hippo makes it especially festive and cute. I bet the people had a blast. Nothing like being out on the water on a hot day in summer.