No one knows Nosevember like an elephant, and this one has sniffed out the coolest toy ever — a jump rope. Ca-rack that whip!
Whip It! Whip It Good!
November 16, 2012 By
No one knows Nosevember like an elephant, and this one has sniffed out the coolest toy ever — a jump rope. Ca-rack that whip!
Ok, who is this person who gets to babysit a baby elephant romping in the waves? Extreme jealousy! Sure beats my boring accounting job…
We totally get how THAT feels, ceejoe!
Would it be of any consolation to you, if I mention the phrase “job security” in re. acctg ??
I think I’ll go and pack my trunk, now, for my trip home.
*shifty eyes*
(howZAT, victoreia?? RU impressed with my malfeasance???)
Fird, you’re giving 260Oakley a run for her (or his? sorry if I guessed wrong) money! Well done!!
WOW now THAT’s a supreme compliment, cw !! thx
*takes a bow*
tsk tsk! Ya need to work on your sneakiness…..Oh, look! A leprechaun!
*DARN*
I thought I nailed that one !!!
Self-flagellating elephant. Flagellephant?
Wascally wabbit – I was thinking the same thing!
Graaah you beat me too it!
Also, I wonder if it thinks the rope is a snake and that’s what they do to snakes.
Where is this glorious, pristine beach where behbeh trunksters frollick in the waves??!??? I must vacation there!!!!!!
YouTube says Phuket, Thailand.
An elephant living in Phuket
Had nothing to do or to look at
‘Til a big piece of rope
Gave her reason to hope
Did she like it? She did! So she took it.
*standing ovation* Very impressive, HP. Give me a nice limerick over a haiku any day!
*ADDITIONAL, BOISTEROUS STANDING OVAYSHE for HP*
Full of win!
WIN!!
YEAH!!! *cough* *splutter* Doesn’t anyone dust these pom-poms??
**AAAAAAnd Emmm WINS TOO?”*
*gives Bronx cheer*
(but that’s only in phun. I really liked your phunny!!!)
Thanks for the honourable mention, Fird Birfle.
*raucous cheering and commotion here in honor of HP’s limerick!* Well done!
Yay!!! I love limericks! Only the only ones I know are definitely nsfw. hehe
Julia, the whole scheme of this limerick is based on an extremely filthy limerick I learned at a young, impressionable age. I just replaced “young maid” with “elephant,” “Nantucket” with “Phuket,” and “like a spear” with “hope.”
Phucket. If that doesn’t sound like a one-way ticket to the Mod Lounge, I don’t know what does. Hee Hee.
@Emmm Blame Firdie for the dusty pom poms. She’s the one who is always using it. Nice limerick there HP
1:20 when bebbeh heffalump sits down on his butt… holy guacamole!
“does this beach make my butt look beeg???”
We need this for the next Olympics. More fun than rhythmic gymnastics.
And cuter, too!
YAY
I love the ‘What a kid’ comment by the picture taker…..
I love ephalumps! They were my Mum’s very favourite animal. Whenever I see one (espesh one as happy as this little gal) it brings back many happy elephant moments (zoo trips and every kind of elephant present given over the years). This one’s for you Mum! ‘Though I know there are elephants galore in Heaven…with wings even!!
Emmm- My mom and I love ettephunts too. She even cried when she watched the Raising the Mammoth special and they speculated how the baby mammoth got stuck in the mud (they did a CGI reenactment, and my mother cried). If there AREN’T elephants (or animals in general) in heaven, I’m not going.
Of course there are animals in heaven! If it’s a “perfect” place, there would have to be!
That’s what I’ve always thought, if there aren’t animals, it’s not heaven (by definition!)
Give that pachyderm some nonchucks! The phonetic spelling is to try to stay out of Modlounge; and so is this:
Piyay Yaysoo Dominay, Donna Ayeez Requiem [thunk]
YAY
We are never more than three comments away from Monty Python. I’m so proud.
Just like the six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon
Why are there never any elephants at my beach? It is so unfair.
You have a beach??
Theresa, I don’t actually OWN a beach, but there is a beach at the end of my street. Without elephants.
*snerk* @ sk’mom & la Therese.
HEY Sk’mom — give!! Wassup wit da Skipmeister???
Did the Wizard give him a New Heart???
Because we don’t live somewhere in Asia or Africa. . *HMPFH* I visited Zambia a few years back, and the ultimate highlight of my trip was petting semi-wild elephants. The dad’s trunk was a lil too close to my leg for my comfort…but the bebeh! ohhh the bebeh with his tiny snorfer that I got to pet…gaaahhhhh….still makes me smile
Gah! I am so jealous, Emmylee! That is SO cool. Course, I got to help feed the penguins at my zoo once – got to go right in the enclosure with them – that’s probably the coolest thing I’ve ever gotten to do…
I once cuddled a baby skunk. I think that’s my coolest animal experience.
I got bitten by a Lippizaner, onct. Does that count?
Ooh, yes, that definitely counts.
A moose once bit my sister…
*snerk*
I think AuntieBellum just *might* be lifting that ‘ticklar “esspeeeriyence” ….
but it made me laff!!!
Put me down for a seagull bite on Galveston Island, about 20 years ago. Man, those beaks are sharp!
I got to be in the back of the zoo thing with a tiger, with (of course!) bars between us but I was close enough that I could have probably touched his fur although was sternly warned not to. Ditto, polar bear, another time. *sigh* Pretty amazing to be that close even with bars between. (Probably better than no bars, iykwim.)
I got to hold a babeh lion once. Handed him back 1 second before he had an epic piddle!
So did I! Unfortunately, I don’t remember the incident since I was about the same age as the lion (developmentally speaking) at the time. There is photographic evidence, though.
I got to pet a wild horse (a stallion even!), in the wild.. more or less. I live in Nevada and up in the hills in the middle of nowhere at the time. We had horses, so wild ones would come up to the house and say hi to our horses all the time. Well one day, I saw a black one standing out by the corral thry to get his head in between the wires to get a drink from the water trough.
So I took a bucket of water out for him. He ran off a ways, but came back when I went in the house and he drank. He hung around for days and each day I would stay closer after putting the bucket down. On the last day I saw him, I held the bucket and he wasn’t sure at first, but as I talked soothingly to him, he came over and drank out of the bucket and I reached up and touched his forehead. He jumped back, I froze and when I didn’t move again, he came back and finished the water.
It was the most incredible experience of my life.
And you could tell he had never been tame, He was scarred from fighting, his hooves were horrible looking and his mane and tail were long and tangled, but to me he was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen! He looked like an older stallion, so I suspect his herd had been taken over by a young stud and he was lonely. I guess he finally found a new group to hang out with and that’s why he left finally.
And sorry I wrote a book! lol
What a thrilling story! Thank you.
That is an awesome story.
I was gonna say that that’s why I don’t like the beach–no oliphants!
That’s exactly how *I* play jump rope! YAYYYYYYY…let’s play together heffalump
You said this would get the sand out of my bum. Right.
omg LOVE!! bebeh trunkster AND playing in a beautiful ocean!!!!
Came for Whippets, leaving disappointed.
Who’d a thunk it! A bebe heffalump exploring the laws of physics. You know he’s lucky he didn’t hurt hisself. I remember doing something similar with a skipping rope at this age and nearly puttin’ out my eye! Ouch.
so all of our mothers *were* right,
after all, about putting our eyes out “with that thing”???
Yup, as we get older it becomes increasingly clear our mothers were right about just near everything…then, it’s the next generation’s turn to think WE’re the dummies! That’s naychah for ya!
It’s all fun and games till someone loses an eye. Then it’s a whole new game!
Given how much tougher their hides are than ours it probably felt good to the little one. How hard horses like you to scratch would draw blood off another person for instance. And also why you never let a big cat lick you… That tongue will strip the hairs off your arm, AND draw blood.
Dang, this baby heffalump has better vacations than I do. I only get sunburns on the beach, even with the SPF on.
“I can’t believe I just lost to a donkey!” *whips self with rope* “I can’t believe that I believed those unskewed polls!” *whip* “How could we have let Obama win with the economy in its current state?” *whip* “Karl Rove played us all for suckers, and we fell for it!” *whip*
Unskewed polls do not exist.
A llama dribbled copiously on mah head when I was 6…
Awwwww, da bebeh ellypants found a fun new toy! I think I used to use jump ropes that way — it’s very useful when you aren’t very coordinated.
I also love his ecstatic little smile when he finds something buried in the sand.
I think he is my cat’s soulmate:
What? I can’t believe no one has said this yet:
“Just whip it! Whip it good!” (Devo ear worm ensues)
Oh, my … I hadn’t notice the, um, title/headline above the post.
In my defense, let me say that I was so eager to watch the video that I missed it.
I once visited an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, where my sister helpfully volunteered … me … to be carried around by an elephant in its trunk (trunk curled up, if you can picture it, with small American woman sitting as if on a swing that happens to be alive and attached to an enormous elephant).
A score of us got to play tug-of-war with another elephant — guess who lost the match (in like two seconds flat).
I almost cried this is so cute. And these comments are great, what a nice bunch of people, the kind who appreciate the cute.