A backflip performed by a hippo. Hippos do backflips all the time. Hippos like ninjas a lot.
That hippo flipped out, did some hippobackflips and exploded in a thin cloud of blood that hovered above the ground. This all when a ninja was wailing standing on a dead piratebody that moved along the shore.
The fear of long words and other forms of literature being sized down to more bite-size strings of letters.
"Well, I'mafraid you have Hippomagnuscolossalingensmetuslongarumverborumsententiarumpoematalibrietlitteraeetlliaeformaescripturaeetlinguaemediocriusqueadparvaverbasententiaspoematalibrietlitteraeetaliaeformeescribendietlinguaeiphobia"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)