# Abo's Jumbo Jokebook *The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 19 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *19 Jan 2005, 10:52* How do you hide an elephant? In plain sight you can hide it from the blind. How do you know if there is an elephant in your fridge? Watch for the tracks in the butter dish. How do elephants descend from trees? They sit on a leaf and wait until autumn How do elephants disguise themselves? They wear dark glasses. What did Tarzan say when he saw a herd of elephants coming over the hill? Here come the walking towers... No... it is a herd of elephants with soldiers on their backs. What did Tarzan say when he saw a herd of elephants wearing sunglasses with soldiers on their backs coming over the hill? No... I was right the first time.. it is just walking towers How do you get 2 Whales in a mini? Down the M4... Or did you say Scotland or Ireland? How do you get 4 whales in a mini? Two in the front two in the back. Why do the elephants have big ears? Noddy won't pay the ransom... African or Ascian? --- ### James Wynn *19 Jan 2005, 11:22 · in reply to Jim Raylor* I take back my previous post. You are a troll, and ought to be banned. Whether you will be or not, I am creating a rule to send your posts directly to the Deleted folder. ~ Crush --- ### maru *19 Jan 2005, 13:44 · in reply to Jim Raylor* I'll confess: I didn't get those last ones. Care to explain a little? ~Maru > Jim Raylor wrote: > How do you get 2 Whales in a mini? > Down the M4... Or did you say Scotland or Ireland? > > How do you get 4 whales in a mini? > Two in the front two in the back. > > Why do the elephants have big ears? > Noddy won't pay the ransom... African or Ascian? > --- ### Nathan Spears *19 Jan 2005, 17:05 · in reply to maru* > I'll confess: I didn't get those last ones. Care to explain a little? > ~Maru Which ones? >> How do you get 2 Whales in a mini? >> Down the M4... Or did you say Scotland or Ireland? How do you get to Wales in a mini? >> How do you get 4 whales in a mini? >> Two in the front two in the back. This is a Marx brothers type joke. It's like "to get to the other side" . . . the practical answer to a ridiculous question. >> Why do the elephants have big ears? >> Noddy won't pay the ransom... African or Ascian? I don't get this one either, but what I really don't get is what these jokes have to do with Gene Wolfe. It's one thing to hear the same arguments about soul/spirit/body fifteen times with different words, but at least it's on topic. ---