Just heard I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas for the first time this year

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T11:06:35.866Z

She still seems to have a thing for hippos:

1101010 · 2016-12-21T11:07:09.338Z

Yeah it’s great. I can’t find our copy of Patsy Briscoe’s Christmas Songs which includes a version of this :’(

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T11:07:53.821Z

Did you know she actually got a hippo?

en.wikipedia.org

Gayla Peevey | In popular culture

The Oklahoma City Zoo capitalized upon the popularity of "I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas" with a fundraising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla". The fund raised $3,000 (equivalent to $27,552.12 present day), and a baby hippopotamus named Matilda was purchased and given to Peevey which she then donated to the zoo. The hippopotamus named Matilda spent 45 years in the Oklahoma City Zoo, and then died at age 47 from a heart attack in 1998 while being transferred to the Walt Disney World's Di Al...

1101010 · 2016-12-21T11:08:25.825Z

Aww.

ninetyeightytwo · 2016-12-21T11:18:29.474Z

This time next year I’ll agree with you. For now I’m suffering from the effects of overexposure.

TKC · 2016-12-21T11:48:45.016Z

just embrace the humming

urbanfox · 2016-12-21T11:54:33.814Z

I’ve heard it twice this morning.

Fuck off Heart FM.

hibster2000 · 2016-12-21T13:14:21.681Z

I have never heard this song.
like ever.

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T13:21:51.107Z

Fuck off pal.

hibster2000 · 2016-12-21T13:24:50.605Z

I’m not joking

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T14:15:13.648Z

Literally impossible.

anon29812515 · 2016-12-21T14:16:06.629Z

Err, you do know that hibster is deaf…

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T14:27:27.081Z

I don’t know if this is true or not but in the spirit of Christmas I will believe it and I apologise to hibster for doubting him.

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T14:28:25.893Z

Wait, is this all because @colon_closed_bracket fucked with the thread title?

Fuck you all.

anon29812515 · 2016-12-21T14:29:25.908Z

As far as I am aware it is not true but it could have been and you should feel bad!

hibster2000 · 2016-12-21T14:34:57.276Z

we all have our cross to bear

anon67149139 · 2016-12-21T14:37:08.650Z

Genuinely no idea what song you mean…

hip_young_gunslinger · 2016-12-21T14:38:10.297Z

Just to be clear, is the song you have never heard I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, or the song that was originally in the title, and which I was getting outraged about, Fairytale of New York?

pinkybrain · 2016-12-21T14:41:17.646Z

hibster2000 · 2016-12-21T14:43:03.219Z

ah, now I understand the incredulity
it is the hippo song
for the record I am v familiar with, & have heard TFONY several times this year
saw both the pogues & kirsty live (anniversary of her passing was last sunday btw)