# A giraffe walks into a bar.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282 "2014-02-01T15:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/1 "2014-02-01T15:29:52Z")
… at Lion park in [Johannesburg.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGBkzom93U) Not a bar, but a restaurant.😉 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/2 "2014-02-01T15:58:48Z")
That was awesome! Must have been break time. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/3 "2014-02-01T16:15:54Z")
“What do you mean, you don’t have a salad bar?” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/4 "2014-02-01T16:28:33Z")
The giraffe gets drunk and passes out on the floor. A man walks in, trips over the giraffe, and says to the bartender, “Hey, what’s that lying there?” The giraffe looks up and says, “I’m not a lion, I’m a giraffe.” ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/5 "2014-02-01T16:50:32Z")
lol ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/6 "2014-02-01T17:11:40Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > The giraffe gets drunk and passes out on the floor. A man walks in, trips over the giraffe, and says to the bartender, “Hey, what’s that lying there?” The giraffe looks up and says, “I’m not a lion, I’m a giraffe.” [variation on an old joke]The giraffe says to the lion “Hi, come here often?” The lion replies “Holy shit, a talking giraffe!”[/variation] ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/7 "2014-02-01T17:54:07Z")
The bartender says, “Why the long neck?” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/8 "2014-02-01T18:16:54Z")
The giraffe says, “Bartender, the high balls are on me!” ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/9 "2014-02-01T20:51:50Z")
> [@Indian](#): > > … at Lion park in [Johannesburg.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGBkzom93U) This is what I got: “The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.” I feel cheated now. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/10 "2014-02-01T23:44:06Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > This is what I got: > > “The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.” > > I feel cheated now. This might be the [original video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Z1EWS3Tqk). ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/11 "2014-02-01T23:48:14Z")
Obligatory early Internet Giraffe [story](http://csua.berkeley.edu/~nivra/funnies/text/giraffe)… ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/12 "2014-02-02T02:05:06Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > This might be the [original video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Z1EWS3Tqk). Thanks. That was worth the wait.🙂 I liked that no one freaked out and scared him. Just let him amble out on his own time. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/13 "2014-02-02T04:17:33Z")
Can’t see the video. Is this the place where there is an inn on a giraffe preserve, and the giraffes stick their heads in the windows while the guests are eating breakfast? That was in the news a few years ago, from Nairobi, Kenya. Article with some pics: > **[Pictured: Giraffe sticks his neck out to join family for breakfast at manor...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201169/Pictured-Giraffe-sticks-neck-breakfast-manor-house.html)** > > The Carr-Hartley family, have the unusual distinction of sharing their home with eight Rothschild giraffes, some of the rarest on the planet. (One of the pics shows a giraffe looking into a fourth-story window.) Another: [http://hotels247.eu/worlds-most-strange-and-unique-hotels/](http://hotels247.eu/worlds-most-strange-and-unique-hotels/) (Scroll down a ways to the giraffe pic.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/14 "2014-02-02T04:28:28Z")
**A giraffe walks into a bar…** … but the monkey walked under it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/15 "2014-02-02T04:34:30Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > The bartender says, “Why the long neck?” “You have a drink named Melvin?!” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/16 "2014-02-02T04:41:55Z")
The wife and I have fed giraffes. You can do that at the zoo in Chiang Mai up in our North. From an elevated platform that puts you at their head level. Some sort of long grass stems. Man, those giraffes have freakishly long and sticky tongues. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/17 "2014-02-02T05:14:28Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Can’t see the video. > > Is this the place where there is an inn on a giraffe preserve, and the giraffes stick their heads in the windows while the guests are eating breakfast? > > That was in the news a few years ago, from Nairobi, Kenya. > > Article with some pics: > [Pictured: Giraffe sticks his neck out for breakfast at manor house | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201169/Pictured-Giraffe-sticks-neck-breakfast-manor-house.html) > (One of the pics shows a giraffe looking into a fourth-story window.) > > Another: [http://hotels247.eu/worlds-most-strange-and-unique-hotels/](http://hotels247.eu/worlds-most-strange-and-unique-hotels/) > (Scroll down a ways to the giraffe pic.) No. This is near Johannesburg, SA per the video. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/18 "2014-02-02T22:55:57Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > This is what I got: > > “The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.” > > I feel cheated now. The funny thing is that the original is licensed as Creative Commons. So this was possibly the one video that wasn’t a copyright violation (assuming it was properly credited). ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-walks-into-a-bar/680282/19 "2014-02-03T00:23:50Z")
I was surprised to find out only recently that the giraffe is the fourth largest land animal.