OMG The Examples really do exist, and I found them on MySpace!  I've done searches before, but nothing ever turned up.  I've asked any 90's Bakersfield punk rocker that I've run across if they remember them ... and no one did!  I'd sing their song "Happy Hippo" and say "Don't you remember them?  Come one SOMEONE has to remember them!"

The tape I happily acquired at one of their shows disappeared about 9 years ago ... I loaned it to a friend, she left it in some dudes tape deck, he moved to Vegas.  So here I've sat without proof of this fucking awesome Punk band beginning to wonder if maybe I'd just hallucinated it all ... but today I found out that I'm not that crazy yet.  They do exist, and I've downloaded all 4 songs they have on that site ... and now I'm happily typing away listening to them, tapping my foot and singing along.  Life is good.

"It's 8:10 and the Happy Hippo's coming to town
It's 8:10 and the Happy Hippo's coming to town
It's 8:15 he's so happy he don't have a care
He walks by a porcupine he walks past Mr. Bear

The Happy Hippo's Heading for the City 
He'll be there right at 10:30
He's polished up his tail plus he combed his hair
But the people in the city don't want him there 

It's 9 o'clock and he passes up Mr Giraffe
The Giraffe smiles, the hippo starts to laugh
It's 9:30 he sees the lama and the yak
He walks under trees so he might scratch his back

A Happy Hippo's Heading for the City 
He'll be there right at 10:30
He's polished up his tail plus he combed his hair
But the people in the city don't want him there 

It's 10 o'clock and he's almost there
He wants to see the buildings stretchin up to the air
An architecture fan he wants to see the houses too
He likes the pretty colors yellow, red, green plus blue

The Happy Hippo's Heading for the City 
He'll be there right at 10:30
He's polished up his tail plus he combed his hair
But the people in the city don't want him there 

Well the people in the city heard he was a coming today
So they sent out the mayor to send the hippo away, 
the mayor met the hippo on the edge of town
sorry hippopotamus you'll have to turn a round
-There's a city ordinance, no hippopotami allowed-

Though we appreciate your heritage we know you must be proud
The happy hippo didn't like this news at all
So we trampled the mayor and smashed the town to bits.

The Happy Hippo's Heading for the City 
He'll be there right at 10:30
He's polished up his tail plus he combed his hair
But the people in the city don't want him there ... "