I'm A Billionaire Now

[Peelee]

What about the dragon-flambéing elephant?

Or the dragon-sautéeing elephant?

[Rater202]

Before you can cook a dragon, you have to slay it.

Unless the dragon is a maid, in which case it might try to feed itself to you.

[ziproot]

Before you can cook a dragon, you have to slay it.

Unless the dragon is a maid, in which case it might try to feed itself to you.

Or you slay it by cooking it

[Anonymouswizard]

It doesn't matter, his reagents were sabotaged eight months ago thanks to the divining elephant.

You can tell all those on standby to go back to being reclining elephants.

[Taevyr]

Those would both requiring my being willing to work with or negotiate with elephants. Not making that mistake again.

True, though even you may fall before the arguments of the dragon-swaying elephant. Or bribed by the dragon-paying elephant, educated in their thirst for gold.

[Rater202]

It doesn't matter, his reagents were sabotaged eight months ago thanks to the divining elephant.

You can tell all those on standby to go back to being reclining elephants.

Unfortunately, the divining elephant's foresight was obscured by the blinding elephant. It's quite a shining elephant.

[Peelee]

Before you can cook a dragon, you have to slay it.

Usually not when the creature has exterior armor, like crawfish, crabs, or lobsters. Once they are cooked alive, they meet the flaying elephant.

[Rater202]

...Is elephant posting gonna be the new organ harvesting?

(I lurked for years before making my account.)

[Keltest]

Usually not when the creature has exterior armor, like crawfish, crabs, or lobsters. Once they are cooked alive, they meet the flaying elephant.

Wouldnt that be the filleting elephant?

Pronounced "fill-lay-ing" for those uncertain.

[Peelee]

Wouldnt that be the filleting elephant?

The fileting elephant is working with the braising elephant last I heard.

[Rater202]

Wouldnt that be the filleting elephant?

Pronounced "fill-lay-ing" for those uncertain.

...Says the war-declaring elephant.

[Peelee]

...Says the war-declaring elephant.

You know who will always love Futurama references? Me. And my appreciating elephant.

[Willie the Duck]

The fileting elephant is working with the braising elephant last I heard.

I'd heard it was the Béarnaising elephant.

[Peelee]

I'd heard it was the Béarnaising elephant.

That was deemed worthless by the appraising elephant.

[Fyraltari]

Pronounced "fill-lay-ing" for those uncertain.

Can we talk about how infuriating it is that people trying to work out how to pronounce that through either the French or English rules of pronunciation (well, "rules" as far as English is concerned) would reach the same conclusion, but because it's a loanword it's the wrong one!

[snowblizz]

Can we talk about how infuriating it is that people trying to work out how to pronounce that through either the French or English rules of pronunciation (well, "rules" as far as English is concerned) would reach the same conclusion, but because it's a loanword it's the wrong one!

Only if you put it in the form of an elephant joke. Says the policing elephant.

[ziproot]

Only if you put it in the form of an elephant joke. Says the policing elephant.

You don't have to put it in the form of an elephant joke. Just talk to the waiving elephant.

[Fyraltari]

Only if you put it in the form of an elephant joke. Says the policing elephant.

The overiding elephant says I don't have to.
And the slef-contradicting elephant agrees!

[Taevyr]

Checking in on this thread, it just felt like it was time for someone to say something before we require the skills of the necromancing elephant.

[Anonymouswizard]

Checking in on this thread, it just felt like it was time for someone to say something before we require the skills of the necromancing elephant.

Darn, I thought I'd got the reminding elephant to notify me, but it might have been the forgetting elephant.

[Peelee]

the forgetting elephant.

Such a thing surely does not exist and must be but a thought experiment of the theorizing elephant

[Rater202]

In all seriousness, where did the idea that an elephant never forgets come from?

[Keltest]

Checking in on this thread, it just felt like it was time for someone to say something before we require the skills of the necromancing elephant.

But then Peelee would need to bring out the moderating elephant, and nobody wants that.

[Fyraltari]

In all seriousness, where did the idea that an elephant never forgets come from?

They do have excellent memories and can recognize a(n un)kind human after years.

[Anonymouswizard]

Such a thing surely does not exist

Has that been proven by the experimenting elephant?

[Peelee]

But then Peelee would need to bring out the moderating elephant, and nobody wants that.

Me most of all. That things heavy.

In all seriousness, where did the idea that an elephant never forgets come from?

IIRC they do have good memories and can recognize human faces, I think? I know crows can, I think I remember elephants can as well.

Has that been proven by the experimenting elephant?

How can you have a decent experimenting elephant before the hypothesizing elephant?

[Willie the Duck]

In all seriousness, where did the idea that an elephant never forgets come from?

There is an ancient Greek proverb that goes 'a camel never forget an injury' which is both a literal bit of animal husbandry advice, as well as an ancient equivalent to 'a Lannister always pays his debts.' Late 19th/early-20th century author and playwrite Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) most likely updated that proverb to elephants with his line 'Women and elephants never forget an injury.' in his short story 'Reginald on Besetting Sins' (or at least that's at least a fairly well known instance with no clear previous elephantine antecedent). That IRL elephants do seem to have good memories undoubtedly helped cement the notion in modern parlance.

Or so says the speculating elephant.

[InvisibleBison]

How can you have a decent experimenting elephant before the hypothesizing elephant?

Presumably through the meddling of the time-traveling elephant.

[Taevyr]

Presumably through the meddling of the time-traveling elephant.

Let's hope he's careful, we can't possibly hope to succesfully deal with a paradox-inducing elephant

AKA an elepharadox

[DavidSh]

And yet we have avoided the form of the classic mid-20th century elephant joke:

Q: What's the difference between an elephant and a plum?
A: A plum is purple.
Q: What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants on the path?
A: Here come the elephants on the path.
Q: What did Jane say?
A: Here come the plums. (Jane was colorblind)
Q: What did Charles de Gaulle say?
A: Voila les elephants on the path.
Q: What did the elephants say when they saw Charles de Gaulle?
A: Nothing, elephants don't speak French.
etc.