[QUOTE=Asimovian]
You seem to have an awful lot of insight into the ins and outs of giraffe transportation. Not that I’m trying to imply anything at all, nosiree. I’m just wondering – has anyone else noticed that the hamburgers at Mangetout’s place taste…well, different?
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Nonsense, they just taste that way because they’re made from very tall cows.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
Nah, Giraffe-o-meters aren’t graduated in feet - they have fewer markings; one near the top that says ‘giraffe’, and several nearer the bottom that say ‘probably not a giraffe’
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hijack] I’m still giggling at this. Silly. [/hijack
Nothing is more permanent than temporary, eh?
The odd vehicle is a Winnebago LeSharo. Not sure why the odd front wheels.
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen]
Nothing is more permanent than temporary, eh?
The odd vehicle is a Winnebago LeSharo. Not sure why the odd front wheels.
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It looks like it’s missing it’s own front wheels, maybe engine, and it’s on a trailer, or a dolly.
If you get the deluxe model, the markings near the bottom say “probably not a live giraffe.”
[QUOTE=Sapo]
a well-earned tip of the hat to vetbridge.
If anyone had any doubts about how good the giraffe camouflage is, notice that you cannot see any of them on any of the pictures. Good job, girls.
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[QUOTE=Mangetout]
The runway might just be a cover story to fend off curious passers-by and prevent them discovering his trade in black-market giraffes . Did you notice any barns nearby? - they’d be tall, narrow, tapered and locked.
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Locked? Giraffes don’t have opposable or prehensile thumbs so a standard doorknob would suffice. Wait a minute…
Does Red Green live in your neighborhood?
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
Locked? Giraffes don’t have opposable or prehensile thumbs so a standard doorknob would suffice. Wait a minute…
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Locked from the outside, silly, these are black market giraffes and you can’t tell when a member of the giraffe control taskforce, or a giraffe tax inspector might come snooping around.
okay people–this one is a hijack, but true. I was once stuck in a traffic jam because of a giraffe-o-meter.
25 years ago, the local zoo was moving its giraffe to another city. But, you see, giraffes are not built in compliance with Dept of Transportation specs pertaining to height of bridges and electric cables.
So the truck had to stop on the highway at every bridge and overhead cable. The driver and crew checked the height, and then had to convince the giraffe to duck.
I was stuck too far back in the traffic jam to actually see the process–I only heard about it live on my radio. Apparently it was quite amusing…
Couldn’t they just have let the air out of the tires?
Reminds me of when the circus was in town in NYC and the elephants would cross the street near Madison Square Garden.
Technically, that’s a bridge-o-meter and should be marked “May decapitate giraffes” and “probably will not decapitate giraffes”
[QUOTE=gigi]
Couldn’t they just have let the air out of the tires?
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Silly. Giraffes have hooves.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
Technically, that’s a bridge-o-meter and should be marked “May decapitate giraffes” and “probably will not decapitate giraffes”
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You’re killing me! Co-workers are wondering why I’m laughing and snorting as I’m “doing” my project reports.
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Silly. Giraffes have hooves.
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Some do, some don’t.
Hee. giraffobia.com: “the place for people what thinks giraffes is scary”
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
What it looks like to me is the support for some kind of manometer
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Okay, my brain quit reading what you wrote at this point and (without bothering with the fact that I don’t know what a manometer really is) automatically responded, “That guy’s gonna be real disappointed if he keeps measuring his manhood with a 20-foot ruler.”
[QUOTE=Asimovian]
You seem to have an awful lot of insight into the ins and outs of giraffe transportation. Not that I’m trying to imply anything at all, nosiree. I’m just wondering – has anyone else noticed that the hamburgers at Mangetout’s place taste…well, different?
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If I were running a black market giraffe export business, I wouldn’t want to transport them by road. Too conspicuous. Sending them downriver, lying down, to waiting ships might work. I’d probably build a cheap plywood canoe prototype first to try the idea out though.
Canoe and…umm… river… I… I… err… look! Elephants!
It’s a little known fact that the Titanic only required one smokestack. The other three were giraffe stacks.
That’s why the ship sank; the captain used an iceberg-o-meter calibrated in the giraffe scale - and although, when measured this way, the iceberg did exceed the ‘may kill giraffes’ marking; he didn’t even think to check it with an iceberg-o-meter calibrated in Titanics.