Originally Posted by
Goldorak
So I was close in my comment above. I isn’t the personal buddy network of Anne Rigail but of her boss instead.
Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I'm personally amused by the name "hippo...." which is a not very flattering reference to an animal and sometimes to a very overweight/fat individual. Being a whale would have more positive connotations, as the term whale (in American English at least) is slang for a big investor or someone with lots of money.
You do realize it is named after a brain structure and not the mammal? It is just the French habit of shortening longer words into very French abbreviations.