For months, in certain chatrooms of the AIM and irc variety, some of my internet friends (or "nevermet" - if you prefer) and I have been introducing "the hippo" during gaps in the conversation.
No one is certain how it started or why and there's even less understanding of how these…
°O.O° and ¡O.O¡
…equal hippos.
A nevermet friend of mine in Fresno and I are the ones blamed with starting this. Last week, I mailed her this:
This looks a little more like a hippo, I suppose; I made it from Sculpey and he's about 2 inches tall. I'm told his name is Tinako.