# Elephents suck.....er, I mean blow **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794 "2000-02-14T00:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tenspeedjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenspeedjohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenspeedjohn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/1 "2000-02-14T00:15:00Z")
I took my 3 year old son to the swap shop circus today. I paid a little extra to get right up front. We were treated to the marvelous spectacle of 2 massive elephant poops. Also, elephants clear their trunks by blowing. A couple of times a fine mist of elephant snot and saliva drifted down upon us. Out popcorn had more than butter on it. That’s it, just wanted to let you know. * * * If chickens could pee, they would be wet on the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/2 "2000-02-14T04:56:00Z")
I’d just like to say I’m really offended by the title of this thread. And if you can’t stand the shit, don’t go in the tent. ---
**Author:** ![hightechburrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@hightechburrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hightechburrito)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/3 "2000-02-14T08:28:00Z")
At least there weren’t monkeys throwing their poo at you! * * * The facts, although interesting, are irrelevent. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/4 "2000-02-14T13:11:00Z")
I remember seeing an elephant drop his load at our local zoo one time. The most disturbing part was the evil ducks that immediately dropped by for a fresh hot meal. Truly disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/5 "2000-02-14T17:34:00Z")
On TV in january, I think it was, on one of those shocking video programs, they showed a guy behind an elephant & this guy fell forward & his head went up the butt. Really, Im not kidding. It was one of the funniest videos that I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/6 "2000-02-15T06:20:00Z")
Handy, I saw that too. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/7 "2000-02-14T19:11:00Z")
Well I went to the Circus with my SO last fall. And during the elephant show, every elephant used the restroom. Those poor shoveling guys were running everywhere. They put the cans under the elephants cans…they were holding the shovels right under the elephants butts. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. It was like it was part of the show! ## Man was that funny! -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/8 "2000-02-14T19:19:00Z")
Heck, I’ll trade the sight of #2 for a male elephant urinating every time. I saw that at the Los Angeles zoo (when I was with a couple of work colleagues and, of course, one of the work colleagues’ 10-year-old daughter), and it was truly an impressive sight. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/9 "2000-02-14T20:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by handy: > **On TV in january, I think it was, on one of those shocking video programs, they showed a guy behind an elephant & this guy fell forward & his head went up the butt. Really, Im not kidding. It was one of the funniest videos that I have ever seen.** I saw that, too. Then the guy fell to his knees heaving. I gotta admit, it was funny as hell. (I wonder if that guy picked up any nicknames after that incident?) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/10 "2000-02-14T20:45:00Z")
This story was told to me by a friend, so I cannot verify it, but it’s a great story anyway. When he was about 8, his Mom took him to the circus, where one of the acts was an elephant that would balance on a platform which would spin faster and faster. The day Michael was there, the elephant was taken by an attack of, well . . . let’s just say as the elephant spun the audience was pelted with flying elephant poo. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/11 "2000-02-15T00:29:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Rysdad: > **(I wonder if that guy picked up any nicknames after that incident?)** (Oh MAN, am I gonna catch some flack for this one…) I’d say **Dumbo Felcher** is a nice suggestion 😃 * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/12 "2000-02-15T14:33:00Z")
I called my friend Michael and he insists the story is true; the elephant’s name was Tanya the Wonder Elephant, he says. Me, I still has me doubts . . . ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elephents-suck-er-i-mean-blow/13794/13 "2000-02-15T17:11:00Z")
Blue Twylight, I think it was real but staged. Because why would there be a guy with a video camera pointed right at them at that time? Makes no sense other than they planned it.