I bought a 10 cent paperback book I've been excited and wanting to tell you about. It was published by scholastic books in 1969 and it's contents were compiled by a junior high kid who boldly went into the editor in chief and told him why his book really needed to be published. It's original price was 45 cents. Darn, I only paid a mere 20% of the original price. I wanted to save a more ridiculous amount than that!

The book brought back elementary school memories. It's title is 101 Elephant jokes. I remember a few of these jokes from way back then. It's true . . . my brain and my joke-telling abilities have been warped by these 40 year old jokes.

I love this part . . . on the way home my son asked me elephant jokes. (I enjoyed his undivided attention and that he was getting into something that I really got into when I was a kid.) I only knew about a third of the answers.

Here are a few for you:

Why do elephants have wrinkled knees?
From playing marbles.

Why can't an elephant ride a bicycle?
He doesn't have a thumb to ring the bell.

How do you keep an elephant from charging?
Take away his credit cards.

How do you make an elephant float?
2 scoops of ice cream, soda and some elephant

What's red and white on the outside and gray and white on the inside?
Campbell's Cream of Elephant Soup

How can you tell if there is an elephant in your refridgerator?
You can see his footprints in the cheesecake.

What do elephants have that no other animal has?
Baby elephants

Why do elephants elephants step on lilypads?
The water won't hold them up.

How do you know there's an elephant in your bathtub?
You can smell the peanuts on his breath.

And last but not least!:

How can you tell if there's an elephant on your back during a hurricane?
You'll hear his ears flapping in the wind.