Friends 4 Ever

Read this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4152447.stm

It is about a lonely, lost hippo who was found by wildlife rangers in Kenya. He was placed in an enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in the coastal city of Mombasa and befriended a male tortoise. The pair have become "inseperable" and the tortoise "...behaves like a mother to it".

Here are my thoughts:

1) This sounds like some weak ass Disney movie. I assume eventually some evil guy is gonna kidnap the tortoise to eat it or something and the hippo is going to to have to round up a rag tag bunch of other wildlife sanctuary animals to rescue him. Perhaps the smooth talking cheetah. The old, wise orangutang. The comic relief hyena. I also now realize that I am gonna have to stop saying "This is SO fake" under my breath to all my friends whenever I go to Disney movies from now on.

2) That is quite possibly the most boring mother to have. A 100 year old Tortoise. I'm starting to think that hippo would have befriended a big rock.

3) Look at the picture. The tortoise looks like he has no idea what's going on. Like that old lady in "Batteries not Included" who thought that guy was her son when he actually wasn't; he was just trying to get them out of the house or something so that the construction company could tear it down. I hope the park rangers are keeping watch on this hippo. Or the Tortoise might wake up one morning, penniless.

4) Remember that game 'Hungry, Hungry Hippos'? Was there any strategy to that game? I feel like everybody just hit the button as fast as they could. That is the worst game of all time. Now that I think about it, do they even make board games anymore? I know they still make Monopoly and Jenga and shit, but do they still make those crappy ones? Like I had one where you were supposed to be some Indiana Jones type guy and you had to make it to the top of some mountain or something. And the big gimmick was that there was this big boulder that could come crashing down on you and blow you away. Except it was more like something slightly lighter and less aerodynamic than a ping pong ball that would roll into your plastic adventurer and he might fall over. That game was terrible.