Glob-a-log

Now, I was reading about some hippos yesterday and I immediately had to think of Britney Spears.

First, this from the hippo article:

A scientist has gone undercover in a 14-stone armoured hippopotamus suit in Zambia to mingle unremarked with pods of the feared mammals. Dr Brady Barr, who returned from his mission last week, adopted the disguise in an attempt to harvest sweat samples from hippos in the quest for a new type of sun cream.

The suit, designed by a taxidermist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, consists of a steel-ribbed tube wrapped in bulletproof material and topped with mouldings taken from a female hippo.

“I was bent double in 100F heats and the stench was eyewatering,” said Barr, 45, after six hours in the suit.

The most dangerous day was when the hippo suit started sinking into mud, eyed by a lone male a few feet away. A park ranger called Boston Chulu risked his life trying to squeeze Barr through an escape hatch, but it jammed. The scientist had to crouch inside sweating until the real hippo became bored and wandered off.

That, and the latest story about our certifiable celeb, made me think:

Wouldn’t it be fun to have a Britney suit made?

You could snort and drink yourself silly, crash parties (and cars) and flash your pubes and nobody would know it was really you and not Britney.

Plus, you got to see all kinds of interesting places, like hospitals, and court rooms, and even more hospitals:

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears was taken from her home by ambulance early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters.

A Los Angeles police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said the 26-year-old pop star was being taken to the hospital to “get help.”

Yeah, a hippo, sorry, having a Britney suit would be real cool.

As long as you didn’t have to give blow jobs to some tattood featherlight freak, of course…

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