There’s a joke where students of different nationalities are asked to write about elephants, and the Canadian comes up with “Elephants: A Federal or Provincial Responsibility?” I invite suggestions as to what an American would have written.
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August 10, 2010 at 7:19 am
He should do something about that nose.
August 10, 2010 at 8:47 am
“What’s an elephant?”
August 10, 2010 at 4:23 pm
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August 10, 2010 at 5:48 pm
American liberal: “Elephants too are humans”.
Russian patriot: “Russia is a fatherland of elephants”.
August 10, 2010 at 6:13 pm
A commenter on the site you linked to said the answer is “Bigger and Better Elephants,” but that might need updating. How about “More Diverse and Inclusive Elephants”?
August 10, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Elephants: proof of God’s creation.
August 10, 2010 at 9:14 pm
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August 10, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Sister Y’s is my favorite. I once saw a book in a store which had a subtitle along the lines of “Natural Medicines “They” Don’t Want You to Know About”. That’s right, the author used a scare-quote in his own subtitle? Who are “They” and who refers to them as such? Who knows! Unfortunately, the author was a Canadian.
I have no idea what chamblee is on about.
August 11, 2010 at 11:23 am
That would be this clown.
I think chamblee54 is satirizing the superficiality of Americans. To which I rejoin:
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August 11, 2010 at 8:09 pm
The Elephant: Mexico’s largest reptile.
August 11, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Ah, I completely forgot about elephants having long noses.
I was about to give Chip points for absurdity, but Bull merits them as well. On the third hand, Chip’s sounds more like a title while Bull’s sound like statements (which draw more attention to their falsehood than is optimal for the joke).
August 12, 2010 at 4:27 am
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August 12, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I recall Bernard Goldberg wrote a book with a title like “The [X number] People Who Are Screwing Up America: And Al Franken is Number [Y]“. I can understand putting it on a sticker, but there was really no sense in sticking Franken in the sub-title. It wasn’t a particularly notable position on the list either.
Years ago I read his book “Bias” and thought it was a good book written by a sensible person. I can’t remember too much about it now though.
August 12, 2010 at 1:17 pm
What do you do to an elephant with three balls?