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1. What did the momma elephant say to her kid when he was misbehaving? “Tusk, tusk!” 2. Why was the elephant afraid to go to the computer store? Because they sold mice. 3.
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]
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
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:
The saying holds that the world is supported by an infinite stack of increasingly larger turtles. " Turtles all the way down " is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger ...
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In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, a joke is told by Dr. Leonard Hofstadter with the punchline mentioning "spherical chickens in a vacuum", in "The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization" episode. In the space gravity simulator educational video game Universe Sandbox, a spherical cow was added as a user-placeable object in March 2023. See also
Signifying monkey. The signifying monkey is a character of African-American folklore that derives from the trickster figure of Yoruba mythology, Esu Elegbara. This character was transported with Africans to the Americas under the names of Exu, Echu-Elegua, Papa Legba, and Papa Le Bas. Esu and his variants all serve as messengers who mediated ...
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)
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.
Along with Ella Acapella and C.C. Copycat, Sharon, Lois & Bram operate a fictional TV station called Skinnamarink TV. The name comes from the song Skidamarink which closed the trio's original program, The Elephant Show . The wraparounds involved the Big Red Button which did various things to the studio and the group.