# Help me buy an inflatable yak **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685 "2019-09-04T14:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/21 "2019-09-04T18:15:13Z")
You can make your own much better. Just be careful when you are skinning the yak not to make any holes or deep cuts in the hide. Be careful scraping the hide too. Then you can either sew it shut while still green and let it dry in the sun to cure or just make a bull boat instead of an inflatable. Here are the instructions for the bull boat, but you should already know how. > **[Bull Boats - Discover Lewis & Clark](https://lewis-clark.org/boats/bull-boats/)** > > Used for centuries, this simple craft made from willow sticks and buffalo hide became essential to the success of the expedition. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/22 "2019-09-04T18:23:12Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I’m pretty sure your interpretation is incorrect. Well, People yakkity-yak a streak And waste your time of day… ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/23 "2019-09-04T18:41:33Z")
If you can’t find one and have to make it, you’ve identified your retirement job. I do hope you’ll kayak with the yak, though. “Kayak” is a lovely base for a palindrome. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/24 "2019-09-04T18:48:48Z")
> [@susan](#): > > I do hope you’ll kayak with the yak, though. “Kayak” is a lovely base for a palindrome. Hey, if you can [canoe with a cebu](http://https://youtu.be/_uv8Ej4CEoQ?t=103) (or three of them), you can kayak with a yak. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/25 "2019-09-04T18:52:24Z")
There is a store nearby that sells inflatable sheep. They are, um, anatomically correct and have an electrical plug. I am not sure which emoji most accurately conveys my emotional reaction to this. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/26 "2019-09-04T18:56:35Z")
**Qadgop** , you want a flying yak? No problem! Which [model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yakovlev_aircraft) of flying Yak are you interested in? > [@Kimstu](#): > > A bull or buffalo inflatable is probably the best starting point. How important is the sex? I don’t know of a bull, but I can definitely get you an inflatable [cow](https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000IxfgiRD7q5M/fit=1000x750/USA-101003-143-x.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/27 "2019-09-04T19:36:53Z")
Sometimes I think the SDMB is the greatest thing on the Internet, and sometimes I wish I had never stumbled across it. This is definitely one of those times. On a related note, on the Superman radio show back in the 30s it was revealed that the secret greeting to find out if someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan was to ask “do you know a Mr. Ayak?” AYAK stands for Are You a Klansman. The proper reply was “I know a Mr. Akai”, where AKAI stands for A Klansman Am I. Now I want to travel back thru time and be greeted by a Klansman, so I can reply “Is he inflatable?” Regards, Mr. IHI ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/28 "2019-09-04T19:52:09Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Seriously though, the most practical suggestion is **CalMeacham** ’s to find a suitable version of a different bovine and custom yak-ify it. A bull or buffalo inflatable is probably the best starting point. [Palin voice] Tell you what, I’ve got an angus inflatable. Put some dreadlocks on it and Bob’s your uncle, you’ve got a yak. [/Palin voice] [Cleese voice] Does it talk? [/Cleese voice] ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/29 "2019-09-04T19:58:56Z")
(Carnac) May an unclean yak sit on your dinner. (/Carnac) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/30 "2019-09-04T20:33:08Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Surprised that googling ‘faux yak fur’ provided so many results. But I actually just posted to say faux yak. > > Faux yak! > Faux yak! > Faux yak! [Don’t whack my yak or I’ll get you back.](http://dontknockmysmock.com/) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/31 "2019-09-04T20:45:41Z")
Aren’t all yaks, by definition, inflatable? Of course after a certain point you’ve got quite a mess to clean up. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/32 "2019-09-04T22:17:03Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Here you go](https://www.cafepress.com/+yak+balloons). I may need to settle for this. It would be more than adequate, if not my dream inflatable yak. Other suggestions above are appreciated and interesting and amusing, but thus far miss the mark, or the “yak’s eye” of my heart’s desire. And of course, by “help me buy”, I mean “help me find this item so **I** can buy it”. I’ve never crowdsourced anything and don’t plan to. ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/33 "2019-09-04T22:44:03Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > How important is the sex? I don’t know of a bull, but I can definitely get you an inflatable [cow](https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000IxfgiRD7q5M/fit=1000x750/USA-101003-143-x.jpg). Uncommon knowledge I happened to pick up from some TV-program long ago: a yak is by definition male. The female counterpart is a _dre_. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/34 "2019-09-04T22:51:02Z")
Apply a air hose to [this](https://simplyinspiredgoods.com/products/zack-the-yak?variant=52174921099&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIje7kqKC45AIVUR6tBh2N5gG9EAQYBSABEgLHa_D_BwE) and call it good. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/35 "2019-09-04T23:07:15Z")
Ignotus: > [@](#): > > The female counterpart is a dre. And is apparently into hip-hop. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/36 "2019-09-05T00:14:16Z")
She’s looking good, Qad. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/37 "2019-09-05T00:48:24Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > She’s looking good, Qad. Call me Vern. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/38 "2019-09-05T01:08:32Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Sometimes I think the SDMB is the greatest thing on the Internet, and sometimes I wish I had never stumbled across it. This is definitely one of those times. This is definitely one of those times I think it’s the greatest thing on the Internet, too! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/39 "2019-09-05T02:29:33Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Other suggestions above are appreciated and interesting and amusing, but thus far miss the mark, or the “yak’s eye” of my heart’s desire. “Eye” is another fine palindrome hinge. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685/40 "2019-09-05T03:14:27Z")
Here you go. [https://landmarkcreations.com/inflatable-products-gallery/inflatable-mascots/item/himalayan-dog-yak-inflatable-l4242](https://landmarkcreations.com/inflatable-products-gallery/inflatable-mascots/item/himalayan-dog-yak-inflatable-l4242) Might cost a bit, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-an-inflatable-yak/839685.md?page=3)