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One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes

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My parents had this book, and I remember loving it when I was a kid. I couldn't for the life of me remember the title, so I searched for a while before buying this one off Amazon, hoping that it was the right one. This is ripped off on tons of Internet websites...it's the original source of the on-going Tarzan and Jane elephant jokes. The jokes contained in here aren't meant to be standalone--the book is intended to be read cover to cover (it's short) because the one-linder jokes build on one another.

This book is so cheap that you should take a chance and go out and buy it. Enjoy!

I can't stop laughing. Especially loved the Pygmies joke.

This book is priceless. I bought a copy at a school book fair when I was in grade school and only remember a few of the jokes now (a few decades later). My six-year-old son wants me to repeat the few I know over and over. I decided to get him the book! Glad to find copies here.

Elephant jokes found their way well into the culture in the 60s. This is the classic elephant joke book with a small variety of supporting characters that pop up in various jokes (ducks, bluebirds, pygmies, plums), and even has cameos from Tarzan, Jane, and Charles de Gaulle. It has the jokes with multiple answers that make the second one really funny. For example, the question "How do you get down from an elephant?" is in there a couple of times, with the first answer being "You slide down his trunk," and the second answer, "You don't get down from an elephant; you get down from a duck." The magic is in the setups, the thematic repetitions (hence, down coming from a duck rather than a goose--ducks work far better in elephant jokes than geese do). For a 2nd grader with a good appreciation for the slapstick and ridiculous, this silly little book is a treasure. The fact that it's style is a bit dated is just a nostalgia bonus.

This book was purchased as a gift for a friend whom remembered some of these very jokes from his childhood. Corny and innocent, expect these jokes to be memorable and just fun.

Elephant jokes were the brief rage when I was young, in general they are so stupid and ridiculous that you can't help but laugh at some of them. If you are a fan of the stupid elephant joke, then this is the book for you, although you most likely will have heard most of them before. Like the knock-knock joke, the point of the joke is to be as dumb as possible. Some examples are:

*) Why do elephants have teeth? To chew their toenails.
*) What's gray and lights up? An electric elephant.
*) What's gray and white and red all over? An embarrassed elephant.