times when hippos freely wandered around Leeds

August 27, 2019 9:44 AM

The hippos that time forgot ... in Leeds [The Guardian, 2010]. Why the hippo that time forgot is at centre of Armley Town Street mural and Introducing The Armley Hippo [West Leeds Dispatch]
posted by readinghippo (5 comments total)

The August bank holiday is of course the one weekend of the year when Reading and Leeds are twin towns.
posted by ambrosen at 9:50 AM on August 27, 2019 [1 favorite]

This is as good a place as any to share the following: River of Teeth Is the Best Alt-History Hippo Western You’ll Ever Read [Barnes and Noble]

“—what if the United States government imported hippos to farm as meat in the late 1800s, and the whole operation went south? [...] Y’see, Winslow Houndstooth, mercenary and hop wrangler, is on a mission—and he’s going to need a damned fine crew to pull it off. With feral hippos occupying a dam in the Mississippi, Winslow has been hired by the federal government to move in with a team of hops (that’s hippos to you me, friend) and corral the ferals through a gate and into the Gulf, where they won’t be the USA’s problem anymore.”

posted by Fizz at 10:07 AM on August 27, 2019 [1 favorite]

So is today the new official Eposterycal Day?
posted by blue shadows at 11:34 AM on August 27, 2019

So is today the new official Eposterycal Day?

It's actually a whole month.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 11:54 AM on August 27, 2019 [1 favorite]

Winslow Houndstooth should reach out to Colombia. They have a bit of an invasive hippo problem at the moment.
posted by jmauro at 12:02 PM on August 27, 2019 [1 favorite]