Subj : Re: Joke To : comp.programming From : Mabden Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 02:06 pm "Gerry Quinn" wrote in message news:MPG.1da477523b5d39ef98a624@news.indigo.ie... > In article , > mabden@sbc_global.net says... > > > RE "how do you tell if there are footprints in your refrigerator?" is > > this another joke? > > I have heard this one: "how do you tell if there's an elephant is in > > your refrigerator" or something... > > The answer is "footprints in the peanut butter" but I originally heard > > it as footprints in the butter. I never could figure out why the > > elephant stomped on my butter. Peanut butter seems better because > > elephants like peanuts, but why would they leave footprints, instead of > > eating it all? > > The joke is that elephants are rather too large to leave footprints in > the peanut butter, or any other kind of butter. Then it's just a dumb joke and I don't think it is funny. Does anybody understand why this would be a joke? > > If you do have this problem, and you want to find the elephant, check > whether he may have painted his balls red and hidden in a nearby cherry > tree. > ....because Elephants have tiny testicles? OK, I can grant you the "Elephants are really big, so you'd see them. And we're pretending they can hide in a tree if only they had some tiny camaflugeage uhhh paint." But that really doesn't explain the footprints in the butter thing. I think it is time to exercise this joke from our cultural meme! All joke books need to be expunged (or burned) immediately. I just don't think these Elephant "jokes" have been very well thought out. The only funny one: "...and how he got in my pajamas, I'll never know..." -- Mabden .