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An elephant is gray

Q: How do you get an elephant into the fridge?
1. Open door.
2. Insert elephant.
3. Close door.

Q: How do you get a giraffe into the fridge?
1. Open door.
2. Remove elephant.
3. Insert giraffe.
4. Close door.

Did you know elephant jokes are a thing?  I did not know elephant jokes are a thing.  Wikipedia tells me that elephant jokes were mostly absurd riddles and were a fad in the 1960s.  I think it’s a bit absurd that elephant jokes have an entry in Wikipedia.

Welp, now you know.  Oh, and the above is a friend’s (the king of the vegetables, actually) favorite set of jokes ever.  EVAR.  And to think, he’s just been hanging onto a fad from the 1960s.

Botfly story (with doodles)

I’ve been going through the archives of old Radiolab podcasts.  Radiolab is one of my favorite NPR-distributed shows.  I like it possibly more than This American Life or The Story.  Um…I really like stories, ok?

Anyway, I’ve been listening to all these old Radiolab podcasts while I work and one of them really caught my attention in how ridiculous the story was.  Here, I’ll link you to it.  It’s a story about a botfly.  I was going to embed a player directly into my post, but it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do that until I’m completely self-hosted.  Um…I don’t know when that’ll be because I’m exceptionally lazy when I have time and exceptionally busy when I don’t have time.  Anyway, give it a listen.  The story that really amuses me is only the first 11 minutes or so of the segment.

Listening to the podcast, or at least this segment of the podcast, caused me to see all manner of ridiculous mental images.  Here are some poor renditions of what I saw:

WP_20130106_006They were just some quick doodles.  Also yes, I have a scanner and I could have scanned it, but my phone was closer and it takes less steps to snap a photo than scan something.