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>Place is called HIPPOdrome
>Look inside
>Horses
Fucking barbarians not knowing Latin and Greek. Literally means horse racing course
Yes, but where are the hippos?
In the drome you pleb!
They are in Man Vs Beast
Yeah, but if they'd had any imagination,they could have flooded it and had hippo races!
Losers.
Tfw "hippo" literally means "horse"
Hippothetically
But horse-apotamus makes no sense (unless "apotamus" means "big fat") - I'm not the most cunning of linguists.
Hippo = horse
Potamus = river
Water horse
Explain seahorses, then, if you're so smart.
They're so cute, I love em
Literally what it's called in slovenian. Povodni konj
I laughed