Horton Hatches the Easter Eggs

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant:
An elephant's faithful one hundred percent"

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[calmo]

What a charming picture!
Ordinarily, I have this bias against elephants being cute, but this little guy wins me over immediately. [Biases are so fickle.]
'Yippee Easter eggs!' seems to be all over his face.
But puppies grow up to become smelly old dogs. [See how those biases reassert themselves just when you're not looking?]
Is there a limit to puppyhood? like camels maybe?
I know: snakes. There is no such thing as a cute baby snake. [I can hear all those snake charmers out there beating their keyboards in fierce defence of their puppy snakes, but seriously some of my biases do not respond to rehabilitation. You people are wasting your time.]

[No Name]

Happy Easter everybody.

says...

Peep Show

[calmo]

I am so relieved there are no snake keepers here who might have tried to straighten me out (yes, from that curled-up strike-at the-first-moment-of-movement position) about the cuddliness of newborn snakes. (Even if that is not their height of cuteness, I don't want to hear about it, you? No).
So what happened to snakes that they never made into cute-as-a-buttondom when it came to their youth? Chickens have it. I'm sure even camels have it. But snakes never change.
Maybe that's how we're supposed to take it: no smelly old dogdom for elderly snakes.
A snake is an undifferentiated snake. Poor things.

[calmo]

Horton was part of my children's education but this:

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant:
An elephant's faithful one hundred percent

apparent accolade to elephants is terribly misleading. [Not like this.]
Meaning what you say and saying what you mean, has little to do with that other bigger business of being faithful. Especially 100%.
If you cannot indulge in sarcasm or satire, even 1%, you will be marked by others as a simpleton who is asking for it; you will exacerbate the exercise of satire in these people who think they are competent, (maybe even sophisticated!) practitioners; you will not feel the depth of language to instill meaning (not merely to extend vocabulary) into those who merely wag their tongues according to Merriam Webster.

Elephants are reknown (according to my children) for their memories, and quite separately, their faithfulness. Of course I have learned from embarrassing experience never to take them literally (atleast not 100%), so I looked this up. Sure enough, elephants mate for life.

[calmo]

I'm not especially fond of elephants. Not even knowledgable. I've no doubt frequently used the expression "the elephant in the room" trying to give the impression that they have only one characteristic worth alluding to: size.
But this photo shows there is more to elephants than that: they can be a walloping bundle of irresistable cuteness too --worth all that egg decorating and cashing.
I'm especially fond of this photo of a rambunctious junior elephant responding to undue care and attention.