Butt Elephant is now the most recent search term

June 23, 2011 11:16 AM

Let's here it for team Butt Elephant.

I know this sort of thing happens all the time, but I just want to highlight the very rapid and hilarious in-thread puzzle solving in this AskMe.

posted by 256 to MetaFilter-Related at 11:16 AM (97 comments total)

That's wonderful! Hip hip hurray, Butt Elephant!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:24 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

[Reference to whatever happens when you solve a puzzle in Dr. Layton]
posted by griphus at 11:24 AM on June 23, 2011

I thought I had butt elephants, once. Turned out it was just my head.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:26 AM on June 23, 2011 [2 favorites]

Thanks for this.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:26 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Butt Elephant is deafening when he trumpets and farts at the same time.
posted by DU at 11:27 AM on June 23, 2011

One morning I shot an elephant in the butt. What he was doing in my butt, I'll never know.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:27 AM on June 23, 2011 [10 favorites]

Duh. He was looking for peanuts!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:29 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

If I had five bucks, I would use it to create the Butt Elephant sock puppet. Butt Elephant would be like a jokier, less handsome version of me.
posted by Mister_A at 11:29 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Where does a 200 ton butt elephant sit?

Anywhere he wants...in alphabetical order...if he can fit in the seat.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:30 AM on June 23, 2011

butt elephant. No, I'm going to try and side step the trunk.
posted by clavdivs at 11:33 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Please don't strain when you have a butt elephant. You might blow an o-ring.
posted by found missing at 11:38 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Q. What do you get if you cross an elephant and a rhino?

A. Efelino!
posted by iamkimiam at 11:40 AM on June 23, 2011 [6 favorites]

Look out, look out
Butt elephants on parade, here they come, hippety hoppety
They're here and there
Butt elephants everywhere
posted by Metroid Baby at 11:42 AM on June 23, 2011

Guess what?





elephant butt
posted by Rhaomi at 11:42 AM on June 23, 2011 [18 favorites]

One of my father's favorite jokes:

What's the difference between a tavern and an elephant taking a poo?
One's a barroom and the other's a bar-ROOOOOOM!!!!
posted by Madamina at 11:43 AM on June 23, 2011 [4 favorites]

lol butts (also lol elephants)
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:43 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Q. What do you get if you cross an elephant and a rhino?

A. Elefino
posted by SLC Mom at 11:49 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

I saw an elephant take a poo once when I was a toddler at the zoo! Apparently my eyes widened and I said "Oh, BOY!" in a tone of breathless wonder.
posted by little cow make small moo at 11:50 AM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

little cow make small moo

... the lost word is 3 letter off
posted by edgeways at 11:53 AM on June 23, 2011

last, even
posted by edgeways at 11:53 AM on June 23, 2011

Glad to be of service!
posted by Team Butt Elephant at 11:55 AM on June 23, 2011 [4 favorites]

Trunk in the junk.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:58 AM on June 23, 2011 [6 favorites]

Q. How can you tell when there's been a butt elephant in your refrigerator?
A. Butt elephant prints.

Q: What do you call a butt elephant that rides in a car?
A: A backseat driver.

Q: What do you get when you cross butt elephants with peanut butter?
A: Butt elephants that spread easily.

Q: What do you get if you cross a butt elephant with a kangaroo?
A: Big butt holes all over Australia.

Q: What kind of elephants live at the North Pole?
A: Butt cold ones.

Q: What do you call an elephant with a gun?
A: Sir.

Q: What do you call an elephant with no pants?
A: Butt naked.

Q: Where are the pants?
A: Butt elephants!

Q: Guess what?
A: Chicken anus.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:00 PM on June 23, 2011 [25 favorites]

I keep thinking of this. Babies have butts too..
posted by nat at 12:01 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

I can't have that be the most recent comment in my posting history.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:04 PM on June 23, 2011 [2 favorites]

This is no laughing matter. Butt elephants are endangered.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:06 PM on June 23, 2011

I'm going to go to every internet cafe I can find and search for 'butt elephant' in case anyone stumbles across that AskMe in the future.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:07 PM on June 23, 2011

google butt elephant
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:10 PM on June 23, 2011 [2 favorites]

What, what?
Elephant butt.
posted by owtytrof at 12:11 PM on June 23, 2011

Q: How many butt elephants does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Why do you have a lightbulb in your butt?
Q: I had my head up my butt and I got an idea.
A: What was the idea?
Q: I can't remember. That's why I got a butt elephant. So I'd never forget.
A: Did it help?
Q: Not really. Now there's no room for me to get my head up my butt.
A: Maybe that's a good thing.
Q: Maybe.
A: Hey, you want to go out sometime?
Q: Sure - When monkeys fly out my butt!
A: How rude!
Q: No, I have actual butt monkeys. They ride the butt elephants in the butt circus. In the finale, the butt monkeys are fired from the butt canon. It's the most amazing show in my pants.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:16 PM on June 23, 2011 [28 favorites]

I thought Butt Elephant was the person who helped you in the AskMe thread. Came hear to mention that and something about homophones.
posted by Plutor at 12:18 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

IRFH, you are, have been, and will always be: my hero.
posted by Specklet at 12:19 PM on June 23, 2011

FYI IRFH, the British government has just outlawed your pants.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 12:20 PM on June 23, 2011

This is that time when I do one of these:

Metafilter: Butt elephant is now the most recent search term on our site.
posted by secretseasons at 12:21 PM on June 23, 2011

Did anyone see the first item that popped up in google? Seriously, too scared to click.
posted by annsunny at 12:23 PM on June 23, 2011

At least butt elephants aren't endangered. Yet.
posted by rtha at 12:25 PM on June 23, 2011

GIS for "cannoli"
posted by Dano St at 12:27 PM on June 23, 2011

T-shirts for this, pleeeeze.
posted by jbickers at 12:27 PM on June 23, 2011

Man gets head stuck in elephant butt
posted by not_on_display at 12:28 PM on June 23, 2011

Did anyone see the first item that popped up in google? Seriously, too scared to click.

So you might be look at that link and see the name of the video and think, "Now I wonder what could that mean?" because there's obviously no way that it's actually going to be a video of a man getting his head stuff in an elephant butt. But you'd be wrong. Very, very wrong.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 12:28 PM on June 23, 2011 [3 favorites]

I thank you for your bravery and sacrifice.
posted by annsunny at 12:32 PM on June 23, 2011

Not to mention your intestinal fortitude.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:34 PM on June 23, 2011

Ask not what metatalk can do for you, ask how many head-swallowing elephant butts you can watch for metatalk.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 12:35 PM on June 23, 2011 [2 favorites]

I first heard that Elefino joke on an episode of Growing Pains. I'm serious.
posted by norm at 12:52 PM on June 23, 2011

Man gets head stuck in elephant butt

*cleans glasses furiously*
posted by shakespeherian at 12:54 PM on June 23, 2011

Man gets head stuck in elephant butt

It was a million to one shot.
posted by euphorb at 1:00 PM on June 23, 2011 [2 favorites]

Back when Gunther Gebel-Williams was still alive, his son was an elephant trainer with Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey...we were at the circus and Williams was on the side of the ring as his son was putting the elephants thru their paces. One elephant got on a platform and started spinning (a typical circus stunt) and at that precise instant started taking a poo. It was like some demented lawn sprinkler as the elephant spun and pooed and the poo was flung wide.


I spotted Gunther on the side, in full facepalm.


Ah, memories.....
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 1:05 PM on June 23, 2011 [24 favorites]

seriously.. it can't have actually taken >this long for someone to pony up $5 for a Butt Elephant sockpuppet?
posted by herbplarfegan at 1:09 PM on June 23, 2011

Ah, memories.....

Okay that is not the username I expected to see at the bottom of that comment.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:10 PM on June 23, 2011 [11 favorites]

May I just say that this is one of my proudest moments on MetaFilter?
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:35 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

My people are finally discovered!
posted by butt elephant at 1:36 PM on June 23, 2011 [11 favorites]

KNOCK KNOCK
posted by scrump at 1:50 PM on June 23, 2011

INTERUPTING BUTT ELEPHANT!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:51 PM on June 23, 2011 [16 favorites]

Hey wow! My first non-negative callout. Whee!
posted by slogger at 1:54 PM on June 23, 2011

Aka "Dumpo".
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:34 PM on June 23, 2011 [6 favorites]

Shockingly, this thread is only the 3rd Google result for "butt elephant". Maybe we need to type "butt elephant" a few more times.



Butt elephant.
posted by auto-correct at 2:38 PM on June 23, 2011

If you want to see a lion with its head up an elephant's butt, click here. No I am not kidding.

P.S. Butt elephant.
posted by Specklet at 2:51 PM on June 23, 2011

seriously.. it can't have actually taken >this long for someone to pony up $5 for a Butt Elephant sockpuppet

Must be great at parties: "So, Mr. mathowie, what kinds of little things does your business do to make money?" "Er, sockpuppets about elephant butts."

Butt elephant.
posted by Melismata at 3:02 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Hi Slogger!

Butt elephant.
posted by fyrebelley at 3:09 PM on June 23, 2011

Ha, at this point in time, this thread is the 6th hit on google for butt elephant. "butt elephant" (with the quotes) makes us number three. Strangely, the number one result is Flickr photo page called Elephant Butt. How does that work?

A search for elephant butt (no quotes) doesn't turn us up at all. So mysterious!
posted by Roger Dodger at 3:26 PM on June 23, 2011

Roger Dodger: " A search for elephant butt (no quotes) doesn't turn us up at all. So mysterious!"

Enigmatic Butt Elephant?
posted by zarq at 3:33 PM on June 23, 2011

That was really cool.
posted by fake at 3:38 PM on June 23, 2011

It has to give YOU control!
posted by emmtee at 3:50 PM on June 23, 2011

My favorite part about the guy with his head up the elephant's butt? His sort of preparatory heaving, similar to what you see when the weightlifting guys lift like 20 zillion pounds.

My second favorite part was how quickly the woman rushed in to pull him out of said butt. I mean, I wanted to see if he could stay in there a little longer. But I imagine an elephant's anus around one's neck could be life-threatening.
posted by angrycat at 3:51 PM on June 23, 2011

This thread needs more Tim Conway.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:13 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Nellie the butt elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye, MeFi circus...

Any excuse for a little Toy Dolls in the afternoon.
posted by smirkette at 4:18 PM on June 23, 2011

Q: How do you get an elephant in a safeway shopping cart?
A: You take the "s" out of "safe" and the "f" out of "way".
posted by neuromodulator at 5:27 PM on June 23, 2011

Oddly enough, this is one of the happiest things I've stumbled across all day. I, too, say "let's hear it for team Butt Elephant!"
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:47 PM on June 23, 2011

I am so pissed at Internet Explorer.
posted by flabdablet at 5:53 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

But neuromodulator, there's no "f" in "way"!
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:59 PM on June 23, 2011 [3 favorites]

*hear in the elephant butt thread*
posted by maggieb at 7:25 PM on June 23, 2011

Is it okay if I there it for team Butt Elephant instead?
posted by Sys Rq at 7:27 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Elefino!
posted by Navelgazer at 7:56 PM on June 23, 2011

I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying and afraid I'll wake the baby in the next room. I've tried to explain this to my husband, but apparently he doesn't find butt elephants to be hilarious.

I... I don't even...

The things you find out too late.

Butt elephant.

Also - MetaTalk: It's the most amazing show in my pants.
posted by sonika at 8:13 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Glad to be of service!
posted by Team Butt Elephant at 11:55 AM on June 23 [2 favorites +] [!]

Well, I can't wait to see when this sockpuppet finds a proper contextual use again.
posted by mykescipark at 8:33 PM on June 23, 2011 [2 favorites]

Yup, just like [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST].
posted by Melismata at 9:16 PM on June 23, 2011

Well, I can't wait to see when this sockpuppet finds a proper contextual use again.

The best thing is that there are two of them.
posted by Nabubrush at 9:22 PM on June 23, 2011

sonika: "I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying and afraid I'll wake the baby in the next room. I've tried to explain this to my husband, but apparently he doesn't find butt elephants to be hilarious.

I... I don't even... "

I've got a baby asleep across my lap, and I'm doing that silent laugh-choke-cry thing in my attempts not to wake him. And I'm not even bothering trying to explain this to my husband ...
posted by Lulu's Pink Converse at 10:04 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her elephant. It is so big.
posted by eddydamascene at 11:29 PM on June 23, 2011 [6 favorites]

::clicks on 256's profile link::
::reads, "Occupation: writer/editor"::

posted by zephyr_words at 11:47 PM on June 23, 2011 [1 favorite]

sonika: "I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying and afraid I'll wake the baby in the next room. I've tried to explain this to my husband, but apparently he doesn't find butt elephants to be hilarious.

I am astonished that my neighbors have not called the police (or animal control) to report the hyena laughter disturbing the peace in the middle of the night.

Butt elephant...
posted by a humble nudibranch at 1:36 AM on June 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

Butt Elephant bounced his elegant buns enthusiastically.
posted by h00py at 3:39 AM on June 24, 2011

I think it is time we addressed the butt elephant in the room.
posted by idiopath at 4:24 AM on June 24, 2011

Note: Everyone needs a hug.

from a butt elephant
posted by MultiFaceted at 6:40 AM on June 24, 2011

What do you get when you cross an elephant and a butt?

Elephant butt sin Θ
posted by shiu mai baby at 7:27 AM on June 24, 2011 [2 favorites]

Sometimes the need to bring Butt Elephants to the attention of the world at large is simply too urgent to brook proofreading for homophones.
posted by 256 at 7:50 AM on June 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

EndsOfInvention's link also includes another item for cortex's "I may be an X from Y but" list.
posted by nickmark at 7:58 AM on June 24, 2011

Sometimes the need to bring Butt Elephants to the attention of the world at large is simply too urgent to brook proofreading for homophones.

Let's Here It For The Bouys
posted by y2karl at 12:07 PM on June 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

Do'h! -- sometimes we are just too much in a hurry to simply proofread.
posted by y2karl at 12:09 PM on June 24, 2011

Dough watt?
posted by herbplarfegan at 1:03 PM on June 24, 2011

Naught now.
posted by Sailormom at 2:39 PM on June 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

TwelveTwo: "This is no laughing matter. Butt elephants are endangered"

It's due to the shrinking of their natural habitat.
posted by chairface at 9:09 AM on June 26, 2011

"Let's hear it for team Butt Elephant"

I came into this thread expecting sarcasm-laced RepublicanOutrageFilter. I'm pleasantly surprised at the alternative, but at the same time a little disappointed.
posted by roystgnr at 9:45 PM on June 26, 2011

Will the real butt elephant please stand up?
posted by butt elephant at 5:25 AM on June 27, 2011

Heute sind wir alle butt elefanten
posted by Sailormom at 5:46 AM on June 27, 2011

I usually type in things like "butt juice" in Google or YouTube when I hijack someone's computer and walk away.

No. I don't have anything better to do.
posted by stormpooper at 9:56 AM on June 28, 2011

I do have something butter to do.
posted by flabdablet at 2:30 AM on June 29, 2011