TMD: *sigh*
MG:
Like me, you probably assumed the American Republican Party was associated with elephants because early Republicans like as Abraham Lincoln were capable of picking things up with their noses. But it turns out this is misleading.
Early biologists, tasked with naming living things in Greek, reacted to their first encounters with elephants by exclaiming: “My! Look at the rind on that devil, would you?” Thus it was that they originally called them “thick-skinned” in Greek, written in more popular alphabets as “pachyderms,” grouping them together with hippos and RINOs. Subsequent biologists decided it had something to do with their noses that made them stand out, and grouped them together with other schnozie relatives in the more exclusive family Elephantidae.
Unlike Republicans, elephants are the largest, heaviest existing land mammals. They eat a strict vegan diet and they have prehensile noses. Like Republicans, they have thick skins, enjoy life in tight family units, and cannot jump. They are gray in color and use their large ears for cooling. They are listed as endangered species. All of which happens to apply similarly to elephants.
For more details about elephants, see here. For more information about Republicans, see here.
PS: CynthiaW deserves none of the blame for any of this.
Interesting. It let me in and I don't have a subscription.
If I could make an unconstitutional law...hmmmm
I have to think about this