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Item Details
Title:
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HIPPO EATS DWARF
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By: |
Alex Boese |
Format: |
Paperback |

List price:
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0330512919 |
ISBN 13: |
9780330512916 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
9 February, 2010 |
Edition: |
Unabridged |
Pages: |
300 |
Description: |
The world's greatest urban myths, fakes and hoaxes, from Bonsai kittens to human-flavoured tofu |
Synopsis: |
The following news story apparently first appeared in the "Las Vegas Sun": 'A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act. More than 1,000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized the tragic mistake'. And yet, of course, Od never existed; which doesn't stop the story appearing every few years as a news item, set in fictional circuses from Manchester to Thailand and Sydney. "The Hippo Eats Dwarf" story is bizarre, almost certainly fake and masquerading as real, which describes a disturbing amount of what we hear and read about in magazines and on the web. Scientific investigator Alex Boese, who has for ten years run the web's biggest myth-busting website has collected together a wonderfully entertaining anthology of the best urban myths of recent years, from bonsai kittens reared in jars to keep them small to male lactation, and confirms or de-bunks them once and for all. So did Burger King really release a left-handed Whopper, with all of the condiments rotated through 180 degrees? Is dehydrated water available to buy online?Or are they just hippo-eats-dwarf urban myths? |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Pan Books |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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