{"product_id":"alex-boese-hippo-eats-dwarf-2009-paperback","title":"Alex Boese: Hippo Eats Dwarf [2009] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe following news story apparently first appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLas Vegas Sun\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 a) bizarre, b) almost certainly fake and c) masquerading as real, which describes a disturbing amount of what we hear and read about in magazines and on the web.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Scientific investigator Alex Boese, who has for ten years run the web's biggest myth-busting website www.museumofhoaxes.com, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boese, Alex","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50590016536915,"sku":"9780752227061","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50614261645651,"sku":"XV80752227061","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/boese-alex-alex-boese-hippo-eats-dwarf-2009-paperback-9780752227061-1147351877.jpg?v=1742471194","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/alex-boese-hippo-eats-dwarf-2009-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}