# V f e 10 z l f n **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158 "2013-05-12T16:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/1 "2013-05-12T16:24:22Z")
Just a while ago my wife was watching a documentary on elephants in the other room and something made me remember the title letters and number in some collection of similar stuff in MAD Magazine or some other place that dealt with such nonsense. It was the caption for a single-frame cartoon of a bunch of natives standing around a stack of bones. Any idea where that might have come up? Is it familiar to you? Know any others? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/2 "2013-05-12T16:37:57Z")
I don’t understand your question and it’s not clear what your thread title has to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/3 "2013-05-12T16:42:28Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I don’t understand your question and it’s not clear what your thread title has to do with it. Wherever it was that I saw it there were other examples like it. This one translates to “We have eaten the elephant.” Trying to Google for it has proven difficult. So I thought I’d ask if others may have seen it and if so, where. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/4 "2013-05-12T16:48:48Z")
One morning I watched a documentary on elephants in the other room. How they got into the other room I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/5 "2013-05-12T16:53:47Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > One morning I watched a documentary on elephants in the other room. How they got into the other room I’ll never know. Groucho must have done it. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/6 "2013-05-12T16:54:20Z")
Oh frack! Its the “24 k of g in pdf” thing all over again! Throw into the quarry now. We only have 20 minutes before Hal Briston’s goats get infected! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/7 "2013-05-12T17:04:25Z")
Ordering breakfast in a German restaurant. f u n e x? s, v f x. f u n e u c m? s, v f d u c m! ok, m n x 4 2! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/8 "2013-05-12T17:11:31Z")
And before the natives hunted the poor pachyderm: d l f n 8 d a ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/9 "2013-05-12T20:03:56Z")
Is it [C D C ? by William Steig](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3874896-c-d-c) > [@](#): > > This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Call me simple, but “V F E 10 D L F N” (We have eaten the elephant.) accompanied by a drawing of little aborigines by an elephant carcass is just plain clever. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/10 "2013-05-12T22:22:18Z")
> [@donkeyoatey](#): > > Is it [C D C ? by William Steig](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3874896-c-d-c) It wouldn’t surprise me if Steig’s work was at least an influence on whomever I remember seeing, but I believe it must have been some humor or games magazine or website, most likely from the days before the internet. Games Magazine has occurred to me since I did the OP. In any case, thanks for your possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/11 "2013-05-12T23:30:45Z")
Click on “Look Inside” on [Amazon’s](http://www.amazon.com/C-D-William-Steig/dp/0312380127) page for C D C? … It’s there. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/12 "2013-05-12T23:43:32Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > Click on “Look Inside” on [Amazon’s](http://www.amazon.com/C-D-William-Steig/dp/0312380127) page for C D C? … It’s there. By Jove, you’re right! That’s it! Thanks for the pointer. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/13 "2013-05-12T23:50:57Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Ordering breakfast in a German restaurant. > f u n e x? > s, v f x. > f u n e u c m? > s, v f d u c m! > ok, m n x 4 2! [The Two Ronnies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ) ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/14 "2013-05-13T00:57:13Z")
> [@zeldar](#): > > wherever it was that i saw it there were other examples like it. > > This one translates to “we have eaten the elephant.” > > trying to google for it has proven difficult. So i thought i’d ask if others may have seen it and if so, where. NM ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/15 "2013-05-13T05:24:59Z")
The only one I know is 7jbfssc. Does anyone else know that one? ---
**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:** [May 13, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/16 "2013-05-13T06:14:39Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Ordering breakfast in a German restaurant. > f u n e x? > s, v f x. > f u n e u c m? > s, v f d u c m! > ok, m n x 4 2! It took me a bit to figure out what “u c m” was. I figured out “m”, but I forgot that German Js make the same sound as English Ys. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/17 "2013-05-13T07:27:30Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It took me a bit to figure out what “u c m” was. I figured out “m”, but I forgot that German Js make the same sound as English Ys. I’m still puzzling over it, help! ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/18 "2013-05-13T08:10:06Z")
juicy ham It took me a while, too. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/19 "2013-05-13T15:27:59Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > [The Two Ronnies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ) I suspect there must be some common source for all these things. This is great! > [@AaronX](#): > > The only one I know is 7jbfssc. Does anyone else know that one? I’ll bite. No idea! ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-f-e-10-z-l-f-n/658158/20 "2013-05-14T03:20:42Z")
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