Thank you, Highlights Magazine

Wow,  I see a bloated anteater with upside-down-raccoons for paws who decided to take a swim with a baby hippo.

Where are the swimmies, Barb W.?

46 comments … read them below or add one

  1. skippymom says:

    My brain, it is exploding. Just: wow.

    p.s. not to be a pest, but if you mean the children’s magazine, it’s Highlights with an s.

  2. Mel Drake says:

    Blorp..

  3. Wend says:

    Major blorpitude, and baby blorp, too!

  4. Queen of Dork says:

    Whoa. Their feet look sort of metallic.

    (blorp)

  5. skippymom says:

    QofD, you didn’t know that hippos have metal feet?

  6. Melissa says:

    Blorp blorp blorpity blorp!

  7. Theresa says:

    Oh dear, I have watched far too much David Attenborough, for I know too much about hippos to be comfortable with this angle. 8O

  8. Queen of Dork says:

    Hi skippymom! Like Terminator 2?!

  9. skippymom says:

    Q, my knowledge of “Terminator” is woefully nonexistent, but OK, sure, I guess.

  10. dewicasgwent says:

    Clearly Mom Hippo is still carring her pregency weight

  11. Theresa says:

  12. carinatb says:

    Great photo! Wonder how it was taken… Hippos are dangerous!

  13. aquasaline says:

    I feel so thin right now…heading to the pool!

  14. Susan says:

    Also a must see: the House Hippo!

  15. Wend says:

    LOVE the House Hippo ad. Shhh * sneaky eyes* don’t tell anyone, but I leave crumbs from peanut butter on toast for them. :)

  16. Rachael says:

    Holy moly, that’s some world class blorpitude and blorpitudette!

  17. debg says:

    Might be the best hovertext ever. And the blorp is fantastic.

  18. A. Non! says:

    Anteater? Upside-down raccoons?

  19. Aimz says:

    How wonderfully blorpulous!

  20. BStrange says:

    Tail = anteater nose. The raccoons I don’t see either. Death by hovertext is not helping me think, of course. ;)

    ^— Hippo privacy tail. *nod*

  21. Leilani says:

    “THAT’S NO MOON!!!”

  22. BB/VA says:

    In an amazing bit of synchroncity, I just watched Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines this afternoon. Did you know that you can pacify a charging hippo with chocolate?

    (I don’t really think so but they got away with only one lost paddle and one hippo bite out of the canoe)

  23. flutterbye says:

    BLORPTOCKS!!

  24. Rayne says:

    Extreme blorpness (O.o) and behbeh blorpness. :)

  25. Mary (the first) says:

    OMG Hippo ‘tocks and ‘tockettes! And the hovertext FTW!

  26. skippymom says:

    I fed a banana to a raccoon last night!

  27. Mary (the first) says:

    Oh no and now I watched House Hippo! What a sweet ad! And of course I instantly wanted a House Hippo of my very own. I’d be happy to leave my lint and crumbs around. In fact, I’m already doing that so why don’t I have a House Hippo? Or do I and don’t know it? (leaving to go search the House for Hippos….)

  28. Orchidea says:

    “Hon’ does my butt look big?”

  29. Fern says:

    Thanks to CO, I have an indelible image burned into my brain of the backside of a swimming hippo (and hippoette!) I know that I come here for a daily dose of cute but this… this….yikes! And I love the house hippo ad, too!!

  30. Fern says:

    Okay, everybody, you must check out the video of Imani the baby hippo. It’s in the queue after the house hippo ad. I’m in love. Who knew that hippos flapped their ears in such a cute way?!!!

  31. Prongs says:

    @skippymom — You are absolutely right. Post corrected and updated.

  32. chanpon says:

    Hocks n’ tocks…

  33. gryt says:

    I’m suddenly in a good mood.

  34. MamaLana says:

    I love blorp!

  35. Katrina says:

    Wend-I do too, but Killer eats them before the house hippos do…. sigh….

  36. Hon Glad says:

    Who new they had built in buoyancy aids. Blorp blorpity blorp.

  37. Brandi says:

    BLORP!! and omfg I want a house hippo! /ahnnnn

  38. Nuclear says:

    I like big butts and I can not lie…baby got back!

  39. Margey says:

    I nominate this post for a Blorp tag! :)

  40. I’m really down today, so thank you. That made me lol!

  41. january says:

    Blimpo blorp indeed!

  42. Penny says:

    As a toddler, a hippo yawned at me. In the hippo’s defense, I probably wasn’t being very entertaining, but to this day I remember running for my life. I’m still a bit afraid of the front end of a hippo, but this picture is just fine! Cute, in fact!

  43. Holly says:

    This gives a whole new meaning to the “yo mamma is soooooooo fat” jokes…..LMAO!!!!

  44. Julie says:

    @ aquasaline

    BEST COMMENT EVER!

    Hahahahahaahaaaaw!!!

  45. compy-saur says:

    I like how the toes clench. Reminds me of the bottom of a soda bottle. :-D

  46. CJ says:

    I loved the House Hippo commercial!! I remember it came out when I was little.