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Christian Graus

Malcolm Smart wrote:

And possibly the reaction if it saw a mouse.

That's a myth.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

5 for the freakish outrageousness of the thought

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Malcolm Smart

Christian Graus wrote:

That's a myth.

Somebody should have told Dumbo's mum then - she wouldn't have been locked up and I wouldn't have to stop my youngest crying each time it happens. Aparently, elephants are one of the few animals with no natural enemy except man. My dad told me that. My dad told me lots of things, and it's only when you're older you realise the rubbish they come out with (and still do, but that's down to senility now:) )

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Liam OHagan

Malcolm Smart wrote:

Aparently, elephants are one of the few animals with no natural enemy except man.

Just finished watching BBC's Planet Earth series, and one of the episodes features a pride of lions taking down an elephant. Normally the lions wouldn't try, but it was a small elephant and the lions were hungry...

I have no blog...

Scott Dorman

Yes, but it took how many lions to bring down one small elephant? Almost anything can be brought down given enough numbers on the attacking side, but it doesn't mean it's easy.

Scott.

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El Corazon

Malcolm Smart wrote:

I can think of only one negative - poo. And possibly the reaction if it saw a mouse.

So what you need is a robot elephant. I'll get to work on that!

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

PIEBALDconsult

Except Microsoft... and Chuck Norris.

Scott Dorman

:laugh: Nice! How could I have forgotten Chuck?!

Scott.

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PIEBALDconsult

Will it be able to trumpet to indicate quittin' time? (A la The Flintstones) -- modified at 22:28 Thursday 27th September, 2007 (Aw, crap, that was a bird, not an elephant/mammoth.)

El Corazon

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

Will it be able to trumpet to indicate quittin' time?

yaba-daba-do!

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bmioch

Long time reader first time poster. Dwarf elephant's[^] refer to extinct ones that developed on islands and Pygmy Elephant[^] refers to a small group that is (maybe) around at the moment. So you better get in now, they're sure to sell fast.

peterchen

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Paddy Boyd

For desk sized elephants too?

stevepqr

Might I suggest that a desktop sized air breathing octopus might be better? Not only could it change to the colour of your favourite team without the need for paint it could also hold upto 8 pens, imagine that!! Also there would be no mouse problem.

Apathy Rules - I suppose...

Baconbutty

I have a chameleon on my desk.............somewhere.............!

I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)