According to the Seven Deadly Sinners, today is Elephant Appreciation Day. It even has an official site chock full of fun activities for kids of all ages. You can celebrate by sending your friends a special ecard for the occasion! At my house, every day is Elephant Appreciation Day. Gothgrrl asked me to take down her Star Wars posters and her Jolly Roger flag so she could put up more of her elephants drawings and paintings. I installed a new shelving unit to display the more breakable elephants. She's got a few with the trunks broken off, but she won't part with them.

A painted elephant (a live one) was the centerpiece of Banksy's alternative art display last week. Of course, the animal rights people were not amused.

Death metal elephants.

We saw elephant dung paper for sale at the National Zoo. Now you can buy artwork BY elephants on their very own paper!

A talking elephant? Yes, he speaks Korean, with the same accent as his trainer. With video.

There are plenty of elephants in Tennessee! But you can’t visit them; its a sanctuary at Hohenwald. (via the Presurfer)

Don’t get fresh with a baby elelphant! (via Arbroath)

After the previous post on elephants, I received a HUGE amount of comments full of things i should’ve included. Hey, guys, I don’t want a mile-long post!

From Skunkfeathers:
What's the difference between a saloon and an elephant passing gas?
A saloon is a bar room; an elephant passing gas is BARRRROOOOOOOMMMMMMM!

From Karen:
How do you keep an elephant from charging?
Take away his credit cards.

From Raggedy:
What cheers you up when you are sick?
A Get Wellephant card.

From Carl:
You missed the best Marx Bros elephant pun.

- Now I ask you one. What is it has a trunk, but no key, weighs 3000 pounds and lives in a circus ?

- That's irrelevant.

- Relephant! Hey, that's the answer! There's a whole lot of relephants in the circus.

- That sort of testimony we can eliminate.

- That's-a fine, I'll take some.

- You'll take what ?

- Eliminate, a nice, cold glass of eliminate.

 

A CLASSIC ELEPHANT STORY

(lifted from Letters from Heaven)
In the mid 1990's, a man was on holiday in Kenya. While he was walking through the bush, he came across an elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.

The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot. There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.

As carefully and as gently as he could he removed the thorn and the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood frozen -- thinking of nothing else but being trampled.

Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.

For years after, the man remembered the elephant and the events of that day. One day the man was walking through the zoo with his son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to where they are standing at the rail. It stared at him and the man couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him.

The man summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.

Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.

ELEPHANT GALLERY

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Previously on Miss Cellania: Elephants

Thought for today: Of course, elephant dentistry is easier in Alabama because the Tuscaloosa...

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