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, he could set off a small nuclear device while simultaneously engaged in an unnatural act with a hippopotamus in the middle of the Grand-Place in Brussels, and even the Times would probably give it three column inches on Page A13.
To confuse matters still further there are road signs in Africa marked ELEPHANT and HIPPOPOTAMUS CROSSING which mean just that.
Hippopotamus , from Greek, is a `horse that swims in a river.
When the Greeks first saw a huge animal in Egypt, they called it hippopotamus , the Greek word for `water horse.