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An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies or puns. [1] [2] [3]
We’ve rounded up not one, but 45 of the funniest elephant jokes around that are guaranteed to make whoever hears them laugh their trunks off.
Other examples of the joke: A woman goes into her bathroom and is shocked to find an elephant in her bathtub. She asks the elephant, "What are you doing in my bathtub?" The elephant responds, "No soap, radio!" Two polar bears are sitting in a bathtub. The first one says, "Pass the soap." The second one says, "No soap, radio!"
A joke cycle is a collection of jokes about a single target or situation which displays consistent narrative structure and type of humour. Some well-known cycles are elephant jokes using nonsense humour, dead baby jokes incorporating black humour, and light bulb jokes, which describe all kinds of
In the title cartoon of one of his books, cartoonist Sam Gross postulated that one of the blind men, encountering a pile of the elephant feces, concluded that "An elephant is soft and mushy." An elephant joke inverts the story in the following way, with the act of observation severely and fatally altering the subject of investigation:
Elephant joke – Type of absurd joke involving an elephant; Elephant test – Classification based on observable evidence; Ironic process theory ("Don't think of a pink elephant") Nigger in the woodpile – Expression indicating something suspicious or wrong
There's absolutely no question that elephant jokes are an established joke genre, at least among American 9-year-olds. I would say (no source though) that the genre is just about as well-known as lightbulb jokes. No opinion on whether the subject is encyclopedic though. - EDM 14:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
This continues until the swan asks the elephant a simple math question, which he shamefully admits to forget, and the class retorts him for it. After this, the swan makes the class take a test, which she leaves in charge of a turtle. As a joke, the animals use their quill pens to target the turtle's back, which looks like a dartboard.
Elmer is an elephant with yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, black and white squares arranged as a patchwork. He has a cheerful and optimistic personality, and he loves practical jokes . The stories are suitable for early exploration of cultural diversity.
Elephant. Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ), and the Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ). They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct ...