A Pleasant way to Spend a Rainy Day

Mr Hippo is happy to report that he is spending the day attending to a long neglected task, to wit: patching the dozen or so size 34 jeans that he kept with hope against hope that he would someday once again be able to fit in.


Mr Hippo must confess that while in many ways he is totally unique and exceptional, in one regard he shares a trait with the common herd, namely the gradual increase in weight and girth over time.


Mr Hippo is a little embarrassed to admit that due to a lack of diligence on his part, he gradually increased his weight from his early 20's from 170 pounds (30 inch waist) to a shockingly unheard of weight of 230 pounds, and that his 36 inch wast jeans were even starting to get a bit snug around the middle.


This made for one very unhappy hippo, since instead of a slim trim fit hippo he was rapidly turning into what would have been in in is younger days an object of derision and contempt, a fat, lazy middle aged slob.


Mr Hippo was offered an excellent opportunity to lose a considerable amount of weight in his early 40's when he dropped 30 pounds from the then unbelievable weight of 210 pounds to a very reasonable 180.


However, Mr Hippo never wishes to be forced to use that weight loss plan again, so he needed some other strategy.


Mr Hippos weight loss dream came true when in May he found employment at a second shift position. This allowed the implementation of the only two weight loss factors that really work, namely, getting more exercise AND eating less.


Prior to his starting work, Mr Hippo's evening activities, in true Hippo fashion consisted of grazing from the fridge and cupboards while watching Tee Vee or playing on the computer.


Mr Hippos new job took care of his eating habits, and since his new job was moderately physical, it provided the needed stimulus to boost his metabolism and burn off the pounds.


Mr Hippo is currently sitting at 10 pounds higher than the weight he swore he would never be, and while somewhat satisfied, realizes that there is still room for improvement.


However, that brings us to Mr Hippo's current dilemma, namely patching all those jeans that he kept hoping against hop that he would some day fit into.


While it is true that Mr Hippo can and does buy new jeans, he likes to wear them until they are literally rags falling off of him. It harkens back to his younger days when ripped, faded and patched jeans were all the rage.


Mr Hippo has never been one to discard a fad just because it has gone out of styles, so he still wears his jeans the way he always has liked them, shall he say well broken in.


Mr Hippo hopes that his continued weight loss program will soon render all his newly revised 34 jeans too big, but then he WILL have to buy new ones because all of his 32's have long since been disposed of.


And those now too big 36's? Well, Mr Hippo is above all else a sensible practical hippo, so those have been relegated to a storage tub in the garage, in the extremely remote chance that Mr Hippo falls back into his bad old ways of eating and exercising.

Mr Hippo even treats Mr Dobson with respect

--- In the_free_and_the_brave@yahoogroups.com, Dann Dobson
wrote:
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> I believe that there was a discussion awhile back about changing settings,
> so members could not join with anonymous IP's.
>
> It appears that Mr. Hippo has rejoined us, once again with an anonymous IP.



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It is with the greatest of regret that Mr Hippo must inform Mr Dobson that once
a groups settings have been changed to allow people to hide their IP and e-mail
addresses, the change cannot be undone.


Mr Hippo fails to see what harm there is in hiding an IP and e-mail address.


Mr Hippo suspects that Mr Dobson might wish to gather such information for less
than honourable purposes.


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>
> In the past Mr. Hippo has been moderately amusing, however his alter-egos
> have been anything, but charming or amusing. I hope that "Nastrander" or
> "freedom_web" have not been permitted to re-join us.


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Mr Hippo is saddened to hear that his offerings have only been received as
moderately amusing. Mr Hippo strives to make every single post highly amusing,
in fact, Mr Hippo can hear Mrs Hippo LOLing out loud reading his recent blog
post about santa claus even as he types this.


On further reflection, it would appear the fault lies entirely with Mr Dobson
and his apparent lack of any sense of humor.


Mr Hippo expresses his condolances to Mr Dobson on his dour, humorless
personality.


Regards,


Mr Hippo

Mr Hippo Deserves an Apology

Mr Hippo has decided to share a series of abusive posts directed at Mr Hippo
from the kind loving Ms Modrepub in TFATB:



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OMG, get the shovel to pick up the shit. What in God's name are you doing here?
Noah must be back on the morphine. Thought you were content being in your Yahoo
third rated group for the "sped" category. You, or your alter ego have not acted
like a gentleman so how in the world would you be capable of recognizing the
traits credited to Noah? I swear to God, Loki, every time you claim that you
have seen the error of your ways, in the dodgy way that you do it, you get back
in here and become a menace. You swore that you had no intention of returning
back here and here you are again. I knew there was a reason I didn't sleep well
last night.


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You've returned to drive me over the edge. What can I expect next? Mark Martin
returns as Mr. Crocodile?


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He is doing it again, sick bastard picking on group members. He's just hiding
his sinister attitude behind sophisticated pretty word speak.


< Mr Hippo can hear Mrs Hippo LOLing out loud reading his recent blog post about
santa claus even as he types this.>


Does Mrs. Nas know that you refer to her as Mrs. Hippo?


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Noah, put down the crack pipe. What are you thanking him for?


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IT NEVER HAPPENS!!


--- In the_free_and_the_brave@yahoogroups.com, "libatarianridgerunner"
wrote:
>
> I will expect that Mr. Hippo and Mr. dobson will get along despite their past
history. We are all adults. I expect those in this group to act as such.


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Yeah, *sniff* okay, See, I knew you were up to something, and don't try pulling
that innocent stuff either.


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I forgot to mention not using the victim stuff and you are also misquoting me. I
thought, you and Mark were happy together. You know, your pig mate that you seem
to allow to act as one especially towards women. Your serve, pal.


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In response to all this abuse, Mr Hippo felt that he had no choice but to
resign:


It is becoming clear to Mr Hippo that Ms Repub was not sincere in her stated
desire to see Mr Hippo return to this group.


Not wishing to stay where he is not wanted, Mr Hippo will take his leave at
once.


If at such time the moderators change their mind and wish to express a genuine
desire to have Mr Hippo return as a member, they know where to find him.


Regards,


Mr Hippo