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cimorenein the time from about noon on friday until 6 am today, i slept a total of three and a half hours. needless to say, it was a really bad idea, although i had a lot of fun binging on tenipuri. however, i kind of made myself sick, just like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cuddlepint warned me (although also needless to say, i laughed off her concern like a typical big sister). then i slept eleven hours, and i haven't even been awake four hours now and i'm already kind of exhausted again. it's a good thing i can't go to sleep without eating dinner or i'd be in danger of not doing any homework today at all. note to self: never do this again.
in other news, my quest for elephant jokes led me to this great book from the 70s called children's humour which starts right off with a wonderful righteously wrathful rant:
so needless to say, i checked out this gem on the spot without seeing if it really had any material i needed. fortunately, there is a chapter on elephant jokes.1
1. a 2-ton hooker that will do it for peanuts and never forget you.
what's the difference between an elephant and a biscuit?
you can't put an elephant in a cup of tea.
why do ducks have flat feet?
from stamping out forest fires.
why do elephants have flat feet?
from stamping out burning ducks.
when do elephants have 16 feet?
when there are four of them.
how do you know when an elephant's in your bed?
'cause he's got an E on his pyjamas.
eta: okay, wow, this book is a truly bizarre mixture of liberal rage and the kind of conservative political position that i'd most quickly associate with the religious right if she weren't also so critical of them. i'm confused. and so is the author, but she's both confused and confusing.
cuddlepint warned me (although also needless to say, i laughed off her concern like a typical big sister). then i slept eleven hours, and i haven't even been awake four hours now and i'm already kind of exhausted again. it's a good thing i can't go to sleep without eating dinner or i'd be in danger of not doing any homework today at all. note to self: never do this again. in other news, my quest for elephant jokes led me to this great book from the 70s called children's humour which starts right off with a wonderful righteously wrathful rant:
... the rather mild and normal expressions of the sexual and scatalogical interests and explorations of the children... are turned... by helpful adults, springing up with prefabricated expurgations and imitations, into violently cruel and sadistic fakelore, with which it is intended to block out and replace all authentic expressions of the child's nascent sexuality. the whole literature of 'nursery rhymes,' as they are called, ...are the complete course in this attempted retraining of normally sexual and scatological children into nasty and neurotic adults, seething with the demanded sexual repression that is matched by the openly inculcated anal compulsions and aggressions.
so needless to say, i checked out this gem on the spot without seeing if it really had any material i needed. fortunately, there is a chapter on elephant jokes.1
1. a 2-ton hooker that will do it for peanuts and never forget you.
what's the difference between an elephant and a biscuit?
you can't put an elephant in a cup of tea.
why do ducks have flat feet?
from stamping out forest fires.
why do elephants have flat feet?
from stamping out burning ducks.
when do elephants have 16 feet?
when there are four of them.
how do you know when an elephant's in your bed?
'cause he's got an E on his pyjamas.
eta: okay, wow, this book is a truly bizarre mixture of liberal rage and the kind of conservative political position that i'd most quickly associate with the religious right if she weren't also so critical of them. i'm confused. and so is the author, but she's both confused and confusing.
the Attack on the Child has now broadened out into an ideal in our civilization, the pharaonic ideal of king herod in matthew, ii.16, who wanted simply to kill all the children. does this seem overstated? yet what else is the conscious and noisy intention of that broad segment of the civilized world today, who would not accept birth control owing to their religious prejudices and superstitions in the 1930's when there was still time, and who therefore today are demanding that there should be no more children, or the fewest possible needed to keep all the billion wheels of materialistic western civilization meaninglessly turning. 'zero population growth!' - the new rallying cry of overpopulation alarm-criers and newly-worried environmentalist polluters. a chorus now curiously swollen by the voice of the Lesbian fringe of the Women's Liberation movement, who, fearing and having failed at motherhood themselves, wish to make us believe that woman can never be really free until she is nothing more than a neuterized wage-slave like man; with pants, sterilization, and all the glorious rest of it.
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Date: 9 Apr 2006 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10 Apr 2006 05:50 am (UTC)and according to this book, they symbolise black men with giant penises who can no longer take white women because they fall out of trees or something in the jokes.
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Date: 10 Apr 2006 08:37 am (UTC)o.O
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Date: 9 Apr 2006 07:11 pm (UTC)and me going oooooh yeah i would've doe the same, absolutely yes, hehehe.
:D
now i am curious to see one such 2-ton hooker, in her pyjamas.
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Date: 10 Apr 2006 05:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10 Apr 2006 08:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9 Apr 2006 07:40 pm (UTC)sjkafdslkjsdkl;f because CAPITALISM WANTS TO CASTRATE YOUR SOUL.
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Date: 9 Apr 2006 07:46 pm (UTC)elephant joke
Date: 9 Apr 2006 08:23 pm (UTC)Re: elephant joke
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Date: 10 Apr 2006 08:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10 Apr 2006 08:40 am (UTC)Americans?I kid, I kid! Dun hurt meeee!(no subject)
Date: 10 Apr 2006 11:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10 Apr 2006 05:39 pm (UTC)