Today’s whimsy is brought to you by an elephant nicknamed Troublesome.
Clevelephant! An elephant nicknamed Troublesome is snapped taking a drink from the pool at Etali Safari Lodge, South Africa. Susan Potgieter, owner of the lodge, said: “When I first saw the photograph of her drinking I couldn’t believe it. It was something of a relief because we had been trying to work out why the pool had been draining so quickly for weeks but couldn’t find a leak anywhere” (via Animal pictures of the week: 28 May 2010 - Telegraph)
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone
I’m a bit anxious as to the effect of the chlorine on that elephant. I hope they got a vet to do a toxicology test on her.
Gee, you’ve got to watch those elephants; they’re cheekier than possums.
And think what would happen if they got in the roof.
It’s pure serendipity that I scheduled an elephant for this week, what with the new baby at Taronga Zoo. MrShuffles on twitter is posting updates.
It’s a pity nobody has the bottle to stand their ground and film the Indian elephants when they break into a whisky distillery, drink the stuff and go on a drunken rampage.
It’s Kilroy!
Foo would think!
That elephant looks decidely smug.
ELEPHANT: If you don’t stop photographing me, I’ll spray you.
or
ELEPHANT: Let’s see if you can dive in this pool now.
or
ELEPHANT : I’d piss in it if I could get over the fence.
Troublesome elephant is troublesome.
ELEPHANT: So I’m having a drink. Get over it. I haven’t the slightest interest in humans having a drink.
Elephant thinks:
‘If I don’t move, perhaps they’ll just think I’m the elephant in the room…’
ELEPHANT: You think this is bad? Wait till I tell the rest of the herd about this waterhole.
or
ELEPHANT : I can do circus tricks, too.
On another theme, here are some backward peasants.
PN @ 14,
Peasants ground down to nothing, I see.
ELEPHANT: {UPOn being remonstrated with for drinking chlorinated water) I still say you should pronounce the haitch in chlorine.[He's an Irish elephant.]
Hi there,
Any of the historical scholars on here watch ‘I, Spry’?
Thoughts?
Not an historian, Rewi, but I enjoyed the show. I’d love to see my ASIO file, although it’d probably be something like “19 year old wanker; no significant risk.”
‘I, Spry’ is so no way going to be whimsical, and so likely to be stoushbait. Wrong thread entirely. Take it to an Open Thread, please.
Rewi @ Its about right. Not exactly whimsy, though, unless you consider Menzies’ attitude to the CPA whimsical. When Commonwealth Literary Fund applications came up Menzies would check applicants’ names from a list provided by ASIO and if the writer’s name was on that interminable ASIO list, you didn’t get a grant. Now that’s whimsy, of a sort, for you.
They didn’t call him ‘Buck’ Menzies for nothing.
My ASIO file would make fascinating reading, assuming I have one. I knew so many Coms in the arts I presume I had one. And there’s no doubt it was all wrong. (I don’t know if they bother watching members of Socialist Alliance, but if they do they’re wasting taxpayer’s money. Check out Robert Manne’s The Petrov Affair. Very Good, though you’ll have to get it on line as its out of print.
Sorry, tigtog – cross posted. Will answer any replies on Saturday Salon.
Can anyone out-stare the elephant, btw?
And what happened to the peasants?
I’ve put up a new open-ish thread post because the Halloween Saturday Salon thread is getting long, and it’s been a very quiet week for posts and discussion starters. So perhaps put it up there?