# I have a giraffe's pelvis. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374 "2014-02-14T22:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/21 "2014-02-20T04:24:20Z")
Man, I just never know where these threads are gonna go. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/22 "2014-02-20T06:39:23Z")
I keep reading the thread title as saying you have a giraffe’s penis. “Is he bragging or complaining?” I ask myself. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/23 "2014-02-20T07:51:01Z")
Do you also have an obese donkey? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/24 "2014-02-20T10:31:19Z")
This reminds me of a passage from Dick Whittinghill’s “Helen Trump” sketch on KMPC radio in the mid-'70s: “…Are [Biffy and Cuddles] compatible? Not likely. Cuddles liked to raise house plants. When she told Biffy she had a ‘trailing aspidistra,’ he said ‘Wear a girdle, it won’t show!’ And wait’ll Biffy gets a taste of her cooking! Her specialty? Leg of Spam!”… ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/25 "2014-02-20T13:15:54Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > My good God, did you really say **Mummenschanz**? So YOU are the other person, besides me, that actually watched them? Are they still around? I used to love their stuff. They are indeed. We took our then-barely-two-year-old son to see them a year and a half ago – his first attending of an artistic public performance. He enjoyed it. They haven’t changed one iota. I felt like drinking some Tab cola and wearing my bell-bottoms while listening to the Carpenters. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/26 "2014-02-20T15:18:40Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > They are indeed. We took our then-barely-two-year-old son to see them a year and a half ago – his first attending of an artistic public performance. He enjoyed it. > > They haven’t changed one iota. I felt like drinking some Tab cola and wearing my bell-bottoms while listening to the Carpenters. Your _ **polyester** _ bell-bottoms? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/27 "2014-02-20T15:27:26Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Your _ **polyester** _ bell-bottoms? 😃 The very ones. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/28 "2014-02-20T23:32:14Z")
**The Straight Dope on the giraffe’s pelvis:** In an article on Page 40 of _Games_ Magazine, October 1984, is a drawing of a giraffe’s skeleton. The pelvis is flat and wide, with the backbone inserted in “front” instead of “on top,” and the thigh bones connected with ball-and-socket joints at the sides, much like with a human pelvis. The strange one is the _kangaroo_ pelvis! ---
**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 21, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/29 "2014-02-21T00:12:38Z")
I have part of a whale’s skull. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374/30 "2014-02-21T00:19:43Z")
Marius,\* is that you?\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-giraffes-pelvis/681374.md?page=1)