Elephant Jokes
An elephant joke is a joke, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence
of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people
constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies
or puns.
Q: What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
A: Time to get a new fence.
Q: What do elephants and trees have in common?
A: They both have big trunks!
Q: How do you stop a charging elephant?
A: Take away his credit card.
Q: What time is it when ten elephants are chasing you?
A: 10 after 1
Q: What’s the difference between a dozen eggs and an elephant?
A: If you don’t know, I’m sure not going to send you to the store for a dozen eggs!
Q. What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter?
A An irrelephant
Q. What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?
A: Lost!
Q: How do you get down off an elephant?
A: You don't get down off an elephant, you get down off of a goose.
Q: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
A: So they can hide in cherry trees.
Q: Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?
A: (they will say NO). Works, doesn't it?!
Q: where do baby elephants come from?
A: Big Storks
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