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hi kate! elephants are cute, as are giraffes. the babies, i mean.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Rent a baby elephant!

Yeah, Dawn and the kids were out when I got home, so I told them all about it.

Baby Elephant Wrestling!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I felt so sorry for the poor abandonned elephant baby who was trying to cross the river, and the other elephants kept smacking water at her with their trunks. Poor thing.

But the elephants at the shelter were SOOO CUTE. Especially when their keepers would be lying down trying to take a nap and the elephants would come over and tickle their faces with their trunks. They looked so surprisingly affectionate.

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Dammit...

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link

aw, elephants are wonderful.

― SHINE ON AMERICA (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link

when i was in high school, i volunteered at the zoo. it was a lot of fun. also, llamas are cool.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link

They are African elephants, as well, so they have those enourmous floppy ears which make them added extra cute. This is the programme (with a photo of the elephant playing with the keeper):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/elephant_diaries/prog_summary.shtml

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Marty: Let's try one more number.
Homer: Y'ello?
Bart: [grabs phone] KBBL is going to give me something stupid!
Marty: Well, hot dog! We have a weiner! [car alarm noise]
Homer: [grasping air] Y'ello?
Bart: I won, I won!
Marty: You win your choice of $10,000 or -- what's our gag prize this
week, Bill?
Bill: [raucous] A full-grown African Elephant!
Bart: Well, all that money sounds mighty tempting, Marty, but I think
I'm going to have to go with the elephant.
Homer: [to Marge, happily] He's taking the elephant instead of the
money.
Marty: [whispering] The kid wants the elephant!
Bill: We don't have an damn elephant.
Marty: Don't whisper into the mike!
Bill: Ahem, kid, the elephant's a gag prize. Nobody takes the gag
prize. [nervous laughter] You want the cash.
Bart: [indignant] I want the elephant!
Homer: Heh, heh, stick it to the man!

― SHINE ON AMERICA (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh no, it's tonight and I am not going to be home to watch it!

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

ah more tonight? top.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Baby elephants all week!

Cue the Mancini!

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

That was so watchable. (And Michaela's not looking as ill as she used to too, yay)

PICTURE THREAD DAMMIT

http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/images--galleries/baby%20elephant%20and%20human%20during%20birth.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't like the bloke presenter, though.

"Will Wendy accept me?"
"Oh my goodness, she has not crushed me!!!"
...
"I'm speechless!" (in breathy BBC radio announcer voice, like he has to tell us he's speechless instead of standing, looking gobsmacked at the elephant which would be much more expressive.

Where did you get that picture, Beanz, it's adorable!

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

AAAWWWWWWW....

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20001107/220maluyandchaisbaby.jpg

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

How fantastic was it, although I spent most of it with tears in my eyes.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

that guy's almost as cute as the elephant!!!! the african dude, i mean.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i CANNOT STAND THE CUTENESS...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues97/mar97/images/trunkiss.jpg

Yes, it was very sad, and they did overdo the "oh no, these emotionally damaged elephants bit" but it was interesting to think that elephants were so intelligent and socially complex.

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh totally. The fact that they are heartbroken because they'd lost their mums absolutely killed me.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

It was heartbreaking!

But it was weird that they kept using therapy-speak to describe it, rather than saying "these babies are heartbroken cause they've lost their mums!"

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Freud meet elephants, elephants meet Freud

"so, trunks, let's talk"

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Right, you guys! We're doing the benefit single. This could be our big break in showbiz!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

We;ll just record another version of "Elephants" for charity!

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Maan! You did this alreadY? I'm impressed!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Wish I weren't at work so I could hear Elephants :(

http://www.claytor.com/intro/picBabyEle.jpg

(xxxxxxpost - Pic was courtesy of the magic of google Kate)

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

And it's a great song too.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't Dodgy once record a song called Elephant?

"I want a baby elephant"

They do grow a bit in later years, you know. Is your garden large enough?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

If only genetic engineering could come up with a nice, small, house-bound elephant:

http://www.thelollies.co.uk/images/elephants2.gif

(OK, enough Oryx and Crake for me)

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Remember: a pachyderm is for life, not just for Christmas.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I couldn't believe my eyes when the show just stopped as the elepants started rioting - I'm not sure I can wait till tomorrow night. Verily, this was TV's first elephanger.

― Huey (Huey), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I did feel a bit sorry for the keeper-bloke who was trapped inside a small, locked steel crate with three naughty elephants having a panic attack.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

So what happened last night?!?!? I missed it! Elephant Riot?!?!? Elephant Panic Attack? Will they have to administer Elephant Prozac as well as Elephant Grief Counselling?

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I read the prev but one post as with three naughty elephants having a picnic.

I need an anti-twee pill.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

If you go down to the savanah today, you're in for a big surprise... for today's the day the elephants have their PIC-NIC!!!!

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

So what happened to the little rescued elephant?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

friend just posted this on facebook

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/523789_10150772143369889_120805694888_9226498_248050486_n.jpg

RUNNING YOUNG ELEPHANT!

animals running out of sheer capering life and enthusiasm are the best things

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

Obvious, but always awesome. (By coincidence, I was dancing with my dog to this last night when I went out for a cigarette)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qPKDb99JYeM

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Thursday, 19 April 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/LQC6O.gif

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 12 May 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.buzzlol.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Ive-got-your-nose.jpg

― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Sunday, 22 July 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/fNMPf.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/fNMPf.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=704_1350489947

There seems to be one hole in thousands of miles of land and they manage to fall in it.

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Thursday, 18 October 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/a1MuP.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Thursday, 15 November 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/TcDWk.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, 11 January 2013 12:18 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/TcDWk.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, 11 January 2013 12:18 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/FUxUhvm.gif

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/375085_334527460007369_1221461276_n.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Saturday, 11 May 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/a1MuP.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/a1MuP.jpg

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Saturday, 11 May 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link

Oh, I already posted that pic.

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Saturday, 11 May 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link

four months pass...

Perhaps old news - but a happy baby elephant can't wear out it's welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxQBd-3TGE

― What I cannot bear is "normality." (dowd), Sunday, 29 September 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

https://imgur.com/aq86MwW

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link

https://imgur.com/aq86MwW

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link

that baby elephant was being a dick

― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 22 June 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

Go, children, go!

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 31 March 2019 08:04 (five years ago) link

four years pass...

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/130bky3/first_steps_of_a_baby_elephant/

― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Friday, 28 April 2023 08:26 (eleven months ago) link

aw… you got this, lil guy

― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 28 April 2023 13:18 (eleven months ago) link

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