Monday, 20 April 2009

Scanmongering Monday :: Hitler and the Hippo

Aaah, what a day. To celebrate the birth of Adolf Hitler, The Sun today launched SunTalk, an online radio station and right wing campaign vehicle. Equally distressing, there is a man cutting down a tree in the garden that backs onto mine. I don't really know why he's doing it and I really want to stop him, but I guess it's his tree. Bah. Now the damn sun's gone in. What a day!

Right, this week's Bookscan comes from a children's book. Give me the name of it and you might win this week's prize, a copy of Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Love Hurts and You Don't Know Why by Dr Susan Forward. So, if you don't recognise the hippo in the sky, why not have a guess?...

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23 comments:

  1. Alex Watts20 April 2009 at 15:55

    Is it one of Hitler's illustrations from Das Kinders' version of Mein Kampf?

    Lennie

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  2. La Bête20 April 2009 at 16:36

    Ooooh, you're close. Apart from the Hitler thing. Move away from Hitler.

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  3. Autolycus20 April 2009 at 18:30

    The Sun has a radio station? How they are going to get Page 3 in?

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  4. La Bête20 April 2009 at 19:06

    They do the jingles. Like: 'Hi, I'm page three girl, Erica, and I always listen to Gordon Smart, the Prime Minister of Showbiz on Sun Talk.' Seriously.

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  5. Anonymous20 April 2009 at 19:34

    Hippos Go Berserk! by Sandra Boynton
    ?

    Either that or the hippo is enjoying a 420 trip (unlike me)!

    Sigh

    AnnAnon

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  6. Dan20 April 2009 at 20:24

    I's not Hippos Go Berserk! by Sandra Boynton, but I'd just like to point out that that book is really good.

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  7. La Bête20 April 2009 at 20:41

    What's a 420 trip, AnnAnon?

    No, it's not Hippos Go Beserk! Dan is quite right.

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  8. Innocent Loverboy20 April 2009 at 21:14

    Pity that's the sun going in, and not The Sun going down.

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  9. Anonymous20 April 2009 at 21:20

    When Seagulls Go Bad, Volume 1: Kidnap, Hippo Rape and Pillage.

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  10. Catofstripes20 April 2009 at 21:24

    I thought this would be easy with google... so many books of hippos.

    And I really wanted the prize. sigh

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  11. Catofstripes20 April 2009 at 21:35

    although looking more closely I don't suppose it could be the children's illustrated version of To the Lighthouse? I never did understand that book.

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  12. Anonymous20 April 2009 at 22:05

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

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  13. La Bête20 April 2009 at 22:46

    IL, I know, I know. Sadly, no.

    Daisy, you're just being silly now. Keep it up!

    Stripey, I'm sorry. It's good. It's not right.

    Suds, is there a hippo in Jonathan Livingston Seagull? I really can't remember. Anyway, again, sadly, no.

    Next!

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  14. Sharon21 April 2009 at 01:42

    Perhaps if there HAD been a hippo in Jonathan Livingston Seagull, it would have been tolerable. Everything's better with hippos.

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  15. Anonymous21 April 2009 at 01:57

    History of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Before Giant Balloons

    (hey, you said keep it up...)

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  16. Anonymous21 April 2009 at 06:23

    Is it There's a Hippopotamus on our roof eating Cake?!

    Swebe

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  17. dan21 April 2009 at 10:48

    Is it wrong for me to not like a man who I've never met who is cutting down a tree I've never seen? I think I might have some latent lumberjack hate hiding in me.
    I empathise with you Stan, blooming tree chopper downers!

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  18. Anonymous21 April 2009 at 12:08

    I haven't actually read Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I had a friend when I was a teenager who tried to convince me of its worth, but it all sounded very suspicious to me. I just said it cos there was a seagull.

    I too tried to use google, but got nowhere.

    I don't know why I'm writing this comment. It contains nothing useful, entertaining or valuable and I have no clue what your book is. I'm just avoiding doing any work.

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  19. Anonymous21 April 2009 at 17:27

    420 trip? Not just the 20th April...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

    Plus, heard the news about the hippo that may be fed to the other Zoo animals?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/13/farasi-the-hippo-will-not_n_174569.html

    AnnAnon

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  20. La Bête22 April 2009 at 12:18

    Sharon, hello. Is everything better with hippos though? I mean, really. What about The Wire?

    Top work, Daisy. You should be on the telly.

    Swebe, would that it were. Would that it were.

    No, it’s not wrong, Dan. If anything – in my opinion at least – it’s right.

    Suds, GET ON WITH YOUR WORK!

    AnnAnon, what an education you are. I didn’t know about that dope thing, and I didn’t know about Farasi. Poor, sweet, innocent Farasi! Don’t feed him to the big cats, you bastards! What a world we live in. Eh? Eh?

    Anonymous, erm… Have you come to the wrong place? If not, I think you’ve stopped taking your meds again, haven’t you? Go on now. Back on the meds.

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  21. Catofstripes22 April 2009 at 20:08

    Mark Farley used to be one of my best friends, and the lover of my dearest enemy. What's going on here?

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  22. La Bête22 April 2009 at 20:11

    Was he the kind of chap who might put someone's kids at risk?

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  23. Catofstripes23 April 2009 at 21:52

    Nah, although he was some sort of college lecturer. Can't be the same bloke.

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