7/19: Elephant tried and hung

Undertoad · 07-19-2001, 11:34 AM

In the year 1916, the above elephant killed a man in Johnson City, TN. And killing a man ain't allowed. So they up and hung the elephant. Details of the story are HERE.

This story comes to us via the wonderful weblog Everlasting Blort.

TheDollyLlama · 07-19-2001, 12:31 PM

Remind me when i get my three wishes from a genie...I no longer wish to be hung like an elephant.

jaguar · 07-19-2001, 07:14 PM

lol.........
Thinking very analiticaly...you wouldn't want to be anyway, you'd be too big so the only thing you'd be able to fuck is farm animals...yes, iv'e had far too mcuh coffee and its only 10am

Slight · 07-20-2001, 04:55 AM

I do think the reference to being hung like an elephant is funny Dollyllama.

However this picture makes me feel sad for some strange reason. I think it is because someone spent the time to take the picture (which was no easy task back then) assuming that people would want to see this kind of photograph. So while the photo in and of itself is disturbing, the fact that someone took the picture disturbs me more.

This rationalization makes sense since as a 'guy' I am not s'pose ta feel emotions. Tony, keep up the good work.

tweek · 06-12-2002, 09:29 PM

The photo preserved a record of this event so that we could all see it 80 years later. Why would you have a problem with something like this being photographed?

Unless you were a dummy...

MaggieL · 06-12-2002, 09:56 PM

I beleve the Kama Sutra has some commentary about the special sexual challenges of men hung like elephants....

Be that as it may, I think we can all agreethat still photography of an elephant hanging is inhumane. Therefore, please follow this link for video of an elephant being electrocuted (film courtesy Thomas Edison, 1903).

http://www.theelectricchair.com/videos.htm

Story of Topsy the Elephant:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/topsy.html

monster · 03-27-2010, 08:53 PM

WHOA!

major blast from the past

is 8 years the record for thread ressurection?

monster · 03-27-2010, 08:54 PM

....and one wonders what trev was searching for when s/he stumbled across it

classicman · 03-27-2010, 09:01 PM

trev snuck a few added links to the quote - very sneaky ...
Mod needed in isle 3 for cleanup please

monster · 03-27-2010, 09:48 PM

yebbut, why not just pick the most recent post... or at least the most recent one about being hung like an elephant.....

DanaC · 03-28-2010, 06:33 AM

I wasn't here when this thread was live. I really wish it hadn't been resurrected. I just read the story at the link and it's really upsetting.

It's going to play on my mind, I know it.

Saw a picture in the paper the other day that upset me, and that keeps coming back to me every so often. Some dickhead has been convicted of attempted murder using a dog as a weapon. The dog, trained for violence and most likely ruined beyond rescue, was in police custody and most likely will be put down. There was a photo of the dog being handled into a cage or something. It was doing that thing dogs sometimes do, when they don't want to go somewhere, or they don't want to get into the bath, just letting his back end drop down like a dead weight. Looked really frightened and confused.

Sundae · 03-28-2010, 07:17 AM

Just a point of order - "elephant hanged" surely?

Bet the inhabitants of Hartlepool were super-jealous, being only monkey-hangers themselves.

Dana, I've had to stop watching Animal Rescue in the mornings. I'm not as much of an animal lover as many people here - I still eat them after all - but I was fed up of being reduced to tears every morning. It was that cats that got me the most (oh! the amount of lovely cats with eye infections! Blind or half-blind and never taken to the vet!) but like you say, the posture of the poor dogs, that only ever wanted to be accepted as part of the pack. Hard to believe that people can be that ignorant.

ZenGum · 03-28-2010, 05:48 PM

I think if you are enough of a dumb ass to lynch an elephant, you don't care much for the finer points of grammar.

That is one of the most stupid, brutal, and generally fucked up things I have seen in a long time.

Gravdigr · 03-28-2010, 07:50 PM

[paraphrasing 'O, Brother Where Art Thou'] ...and so we gonna hang us a nelephant. [/paraphrasing 'O Brother Where Art Thou]

Sundae · 04-15-2010, 02:56 PM

Bit of synchronicity here - I just read a book set in TN where one of the protagonists took a photo of the hanged elephant.

The book itself was a bit meh. See my reviewing skills?!
I will write it up properly in the Books thread. If I can find the damned ticket from the library telling me what I had out (That collection of books has already gone back).

07-19-2001, 11:34 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/19: Elephant tried and hung In the year 1916, the above elephant killed a man in Johnson City, TN. And killing a man ain't allowed. So they up and hung the elephant. Details of the story are HERE. This story comes to us via the wonderful weblog Everlasting Blort.

07-19-2001, 12:31 PM	#2
TheDollyLlama Do-er of Deeds Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 41	Hung Like an Elephant Remind me when i get my three wishes from a genie...I no longer wish to be hung like an elephant.

07-19-2001, 07:14 PM	#3
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	lol......... Thinking very analiticaly...you wouldn't want to be anyway, you'd be too big so the only thing you'd be able to fuck is farm animals...yes, iv'e had far too mcuh coffee and its only 10am __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

06-12-2002, 09:56 PM	#6
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	I beleve the Kama Sutra has some commentary about the special sexual challenges of men hung like elephants.... Be that as it may, I think we can all agreethat still photography of an elephant hanging is inhumane. Therefore, please follow this link for video of an elephant being electrocuted (film courtesy Thomas Edison, 1903). http://www.theelectricchair.com/videos.htm Story of Topsy the Elephant: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/topsy.html __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

03-27-2010, 08:53 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	WHOA! major blast from the past is 8 years the record for thread ressurection? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-20-2001, 04:55 AM	#4
Slight Semi-Evil Genius Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Boulder CO Posts: 195	I do think the reference to being hung like an elephant is funny Dollyllama. However this picture makes me feel sad for some strange reason. I think it is because someone spent the time to take the picture (which was no easy task back then) assuming that people would want to see this kind of photograph. So while the photo in and of itself is disturbing, the fact that someone took the picture disturbs me more. This rationalization makes sense since as a 'guy' I am not s'pose ta feel emotions. Tony, keep up the good work.

06-12-2002, 09:29 PM	#5
tweek Disorderly Disciplinarian Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 21	The photo preserved a record of this event so that we could all see it 80 years later. Why would you have a problem with something like this being photographed? Unless you were a dummy...

03-27-2010, 08:54 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	....and one wonders what trev was searching for when s/he stumbled across it __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-27-2010, 09:01 PM	#9
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	trev snuck a few added links to the quote - very sneaky ... Mod needed in isle 3 for cleanup please __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-27-2010, 09:48 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	yebbut, why not just pick the most recent post... or at least the most recent one about being hung like an elephant..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-28-2010, 07:17 AM	#12
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Just a point of order - "elephant hanged" surely? Bet the inhabitants of Hartlepool were super-jealous, being only monkey-hangers themselves. Dana, I've had to stop watching Animal Rescue in the mornings. I'm not as much of an animal lover as many people here - I still eat them after all - but I was fed up of being reduced to tears every morning. It was that cats that got me the most (oh! the amount of lovely cats with eye infections! Blind or half-blind and never taken to the vet!) but like you say, the posture of the poor dogs, that only ever wanted to be accepted as part of the pack. Hard to believe that people can be that ignorant. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-28-2010, 05:48 PM	#13
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I think if you are enough of a dumb ass to lynch an elephant, you don't care much for the finer points of grammar. That is one of the most stupid, brutal, and generally fucked up things I have seen in a long time. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-28-2010, 07:50 PM	#14
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	[paraphrasing 'O, Brother Where Art Thou'] ...and so we gonna hang us a nelephant. [/paraphrasing 'O Brother Where Art Thou] __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

04-15-2010, 02:56 PM	#15
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Bit of synchronicity here - I just read a book set in TN where one of the protagonists took a photo of the hanged elephant. The book itself was a bit meh. See my reviewing skills?! I will write it up properly in the Books thread. If I can find the damned ticket from the library telling me what I had out (That collection of books has already gone back).

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