Hippos

Sorry I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation about about sub-Saharan African aquatic mammals. Did you know hippopotamuses communicate through snorts and grunts? It’s true! These snorts and grunts cause subtle vibrations in the water. Other hippos can tell who’s snorting this and who’s grunting that by inhaling the bubbles that are in the minute water vibrations. The gas reaches their tongue and the taste determines the sender. Hippos can taste another hippopotamus from a mile off! This wine tastes great, doesn’t it? In fact, their sophisticated taste makes hippos perfect sommeliers. Who said they can’t tell a merlot from a pinot noir?

I knew a hippo sommelier, they were a terrible drunk and they would only spit out the wine at people’s faces. But a hippo sommelier was such a curiosity that they got away with such awful manners. I think they chose this evenings wine selection…

Oh you have to make a call? Take care, and if you see that hippo tell them the wine tastes rather dry with this fish. If there’s wine on their chin, be on guard for a spit!