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How can you tell if there is an elephant in your refrigerator?

Footprints in the butter.



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I don't know if elephants go to heaven, but I do know how you can tell if there's an elephant hiding under your bed:

Your face is pressed up against the ceiling.


Yes, elephants have large footprints.

Maybe there are two elephants in this room?

Which elephant is in your room?

"Perhaps you can spot an elephant in ?"

The animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script#/media/File...


Maybe that's an elephant in your room. Not in mine.

Question 2, being on the more humorous side, isn't completely logically consistent.

2a)You open the door and put the elephant in the fridge, and close the door. It appears that you made some assumption about either the smallness of the fridge or the largeness of the elephant. Also theoretically tests if you went for a simple solution or try to overcomplicate things.

2b)You open the door, take out the elephant, put in the giraffe, and shut the door. In theory, this tests you ability to track the state of a problem and your previous actions. The part that pisses me off, is you usually lose points for not taking the elephant out first. If I have a theoretical fridge that's big enough to hold an elephant, why can't it be big enough to hold a giraffe at the same time?

2c) This one is easy after you've been given the answer to number 2b. Obviously the giraffe is missing, since he's still locked in the fridge.

2d)Just swim across, all the alligators are at the jungle meeting from 2c.


Maybe cash sniffing elephants. Elephants can count, or at least scale, obscured items by smell.

Elephants do not exist, so there could not possibly be one in this room. Instead, let's self-soothe with talk of flaws in common elephant-detection methodologies, because that will reassure us that the room is elephant-free. Nevermind the pervasive smell of elephant shit.

There are several elephants in this particular room. Which are you referring to?

There's an elephant joke to be made here...

There's an elephant in the way?

There are even those in which you are the elephant.

The last time they checked (AFAIK in 2004) the Elephant's foot was porous and extremely fragile. In the 1980s they couldn't get a sample even using the hardest tools; in 2004 they could stick a finger right through.

I've never been in a room with an elephant. Is this soemthing that happens to you a lot?

What elephant?

It's an image of an elephant?

What are the elephants in the room?

What will the Elephant think about that?
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