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		"How to tell an elephant from a cat: Check the larynx." Thank goodness -- I'm always getting them confused (nytimes.com)		27
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fusillade762		2012-08-20 07:30:41 PM

Fun fact: these little guys are actually related to elephants.

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FloydA		2012-08-20 07:52:35 PM

It's all a question of vowels, subby. A or O.

If it sits on your lap and you go "Awwwww," it's a cat. If it sits on your lap and you go "Owwwww," it's an elephant.

Cake Hunter		2012-08-20 08:23:50 PM

I'm always losing my lipstick up in that big old elephant anus.

ArkAngel		2012-08-20 08:50:51 PM

I think I see where the author got confused

Makh		2012-08-20 09:18:24 PM

Silly me, I thought you would check the trunk.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-08-20 09:27:56 PM

FloydA: It's all a question of vowels, subby. A or O.

If it sits on your lap and you go "Awwwww," it's a cat. If it sits on your lap and you go "Owwwww," it's an elephant.

You've obviously never had my cats in your lap

/NO DON'T KNEAD THERE!

FloydA		2012-08-20 10:27:33 PM

MaudlinMutantMollusk: FloydA: It's all a question of vowels, subby. A or O.

If it sits on your lap and you go "Awwwww," it's a cat. If it sits on your lap and you go "Owwwww," it's an elephant.

You've obviously never had my cats in your lap

/NO DON'T KNEAD THERE!

Oh I assure you, if elephants were kneading your crotch, you would notice the difference.

AbbeySomeone		2012-08-20 10:32:57 PM

I imagine the larnyx of an elephant would be bigger than that of a cat subby.

Kumana Wanalaia		2012-08-20 10:33:36 PM

Some elephants are fat cats.

Thanks for the Meme-ries		2012-08-20 10:35:02 PM

thtz not mi lairinks

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-08-20 10:35:51 PM

FloydA: MaudlinMutantMollusk: FloydA: It's all a question of vowels, subby. A or O.

If it sits on your lap and you go "Awwwww," it's a cat. If it sits on your lap and you go "Owwwww," it's an elephant.

You've obviously never had my cats in your lap

/NO DON'T KNEAD THERE!

Oh I assure you, if elephants were kneading your crotch, you would notice the difference.

No doubt, but my point was that my cats produce more Owwwws than Awwwws

Summer Glau's Love Slave		2012-08-20 10:36:59 PM

Yes, ask the Larnyx.
www.thedigitalscoop.com

He would know.

Gyrfalcon		2012-08-20 10:48:33 PM

FloydA: MaudlinMutantMollusk: FloydA: It's all a question of vowels, subby. A or O.

If it sits on your lap and you go "Awwwww," it's a cat. If it sits on your lap and you go "Owwwww," it's an elephant.

You've obviously never had my cats in your lap

/NO DON'T KNEAD THERE!

Oh I assure you, if elephants were kneading your crotch, you would notice the difference.

Or possibly not, because you'd no longer have a crotch that you could notice.

sweet-daddy-2		2012-08-20 10:56:21 PM

Does a cat purring in your ear mean the same thing as an elephant rumbling in your ear?

studebaker hoch		2012-08-20 10:57:22 PM

ArkAngel [TotalFark]

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I think I see where the author got confused

I'm guessing that dog has a really ugly face.

Indubitably		2012-08-20 11:00:37 PM

"Feel for the throat, Crate, for there lies the Sun. Extinguish the Sun, and the planet dies..."

studebaker hoch		2012-08-20 11:04:15 PM

If you need a front-end loader to clean the litterbox, it's an elephant.
If you drop it upside down out a second-story window and it lands on its feet, it's a cat.

/protip: A cat will never bring you your wadded-up elephant as a treat.

WordsnCollision		2012-08-20 11:05:59 PM

Agent Smiths Laugh		2012-08-20 11:37:50 PM

Well this puts a new wrinkle in my plan to breed catephants.

Arkanaut		2012-08-20 11:52:13 PM

Makh: Silly me, I thought you would check the trunk.

My elephant can't fit in the trunk.

doglover		2012-08-20 11:56:35 PM

Dr. Fitch and colleagues made their discovery

Yeah, we've been researching elephant communication for AGES. We known they use infrasonic vocalizations for decades. All you've "discovered" is a redundant fact that could be safely inferred by the existence of the entire branch of study already in place.

It's like those people who go to some place like Australia, talk to the natives, and "discover" a "new" species of goat or something that's been feeding the locals for centuries or more and then name it after themselves like they've done anything useful.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass		2012-08-21 12:22:55 AM

/how the cat got in my pajamas, I'll never know!

Mega Steve		2012-08-21 12:56:18 AM

Mayhem of the Black Underclass: [maggipicayune.net image 360x480]
/how the cat got in my pajamas, I'll never know!

See that look in his eyes? That's the look of a cat that's given up on life.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-08-21 01:24:19 AM

Mega Steve: Mayhem of the Black Underclass: [maggipicayune.net image 360x480]
/how the cat got in my pajamas, I'll never know!

See that look in his eyes? That's the look of a cat that's given up on life.

OK... that cracked me up way more than it should have

/buy ya know... you're right

Ambivalence		2012-08-21 01:42:33 AM

Mega Steve: Mayhem of the Black Underclass: [maggipicayune.net image 360x480]
/how the cat got in my pajamas, I'll never know!

See that look in his eyes? That's the look of a cat that's given up on life.

Of course it is, he's wearing a dunce collar AND a onesey. And there's a blanket in his litter box.

studebaker hoch		2012-08-21 10:18:16 AM

Mayhem of the Black Underclass

maggipicayune.net
/how the cat got in my pajamas, I'll never know!

I will never mix catnip and little friskies again.
I will never mix catnip and little friskies again.
I will never mix catnip and little friskies again.
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