Edit: Baby elephant fell and mommy leaned down to help. One of her tusks injured the baby and it died as a result. Just before noon today. Thanks Beagle and Carrie.
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We had the first ever baby elephant at our zoo this week. We became members of the Memphis Zoo for the
first time this year and have tried to be more involved with the activities going on there. Yeah, we are failing horribly at it so far. It's well worth it to become a member though if you plan on going more than once a year. Our family can go everyday all day for $70 a year. It costs $45 to go once. Anyhow I was reading about the baby and how they are going to have a public naming contest when I came across the article where the local Le Bonheur hospital donated a human breast pump to the Mommy elephant. A human breast pump? I guess I've never looked for hooters on an elephant before but I'd reckon they'd be hard to miss. New kids movie: Horton hears about Whooters. It reminded me of a horrible experience I had with a breast pump once. Those things cause monkey nipples and are NOT comfortable. AT ALL. I just thank God there are no pictures or video to go with the story.
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The mayor of Memphis (King Willie who was promoted by Prince Mongo to win the election) has publicly announced his resignation 4-5 different times in the past few years and each time withdrew shortly after. One of the local radio stations is trying to push for the new baby elephant to replace him. Seriously, they have good reason. King Willie has been mayor for years during which the City of Memphis and it's utilities have plummeted. MLG&W (light gas and water) was the #1 utility company in the entire USA when he was first elected. Now... it is dead last. Not next to last.... it's the worst utility in America. I could go on and on and on and on and on about this tool but I wont. Not today. Anybody that knows anything about anything knows that he has and is running Memphis into the ground but the ignorant people in the city continue to re-elect him. Why? I have my own theories but I will keep them to myself.
I just realized that I must be living in a horrible kids movie. King Willie... Prince Mongo... These are real friggin people. May not be their real names but that's what almost EVERYBODY calls them. Please somebody pinch me and wake me up. This is all turning into a nightmare.
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The new Mailing list thingy had me confused and I accidentally deleted everyone that signed up so you have to put your info in again. Sorry! I still love ya. Well... I know what to do now. Guess that's the bright side of it.
Come see our baby elephant (when it is out for view) and give me some notice. Maybe we could meet up or something. They said the thing is only 3 feet tall. I wannnnnaaaaa seeeeee!!!
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We had the first ever baby elephant at our zoo this week. We became members of the Memphis Zoo for the
first time this year and have tried to be more involved with the activities going on there. Yeah, we are failing horribly at it so far. It's well worth it to become a member though if you plan on going more than once a year. Our family can go everyday all day for $70 a year. It costs $45 to go once. Anyhow I was reading about the baby and how they are going to have a public naming contest when I came across the article where the local Le Bonheur hospital donated a human breast pump to the Mommy elephant. A human breast pump? I guess I've never looked for hooters on an elephant before but I'd reckon they'd be hard to miss. New kids movie: Horton hears about Whooters. It reminded me of a horrible experience I had with a breast pump once. Those things cause monkey nipples and are NOT comfortable. AT ALL. I just thank God there are no pictures or video to go with the story.________________________________________________
The mayor of Memphis (King Willie who was promoted by Prince Mongo to win the election) has publicly announced his resignation 4-5 different times in the past few years and each time withdrew shortly after. One of the local radio stations is trying to push for the new baby elephant to replace him. Seriously, they have good reason. King Willie has been mayor for years during which the City of Memphis and it's utilities have plummeted. MLG&W (light gas and water) was the #1 utility company in the entire USA when he was first elected. Now... it is dead last. Not next to last.... it's the worst utility in America. I could go on and on and on and on and on about this tool but I wont. Not today. Anybody that knows anything about anything knows that he has and is running Memphis into the ground but the ignorant people in the city continue to re-elect him. Why? I have my own theories but I will keep them to myself.
I just realized that I must be living in a horrible kids movie. King Willie... Prince Mongo... These are real friggin people. May not be their real names but that's what almost EVERYBODY calls them. Please somebody pinch me and wake me up. This is all turning into a nightmare.
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The new Mailing list thingy had me confused and I accidentally deleted everyone that signed up so you have to put your info in again. Sorry! I still love ya. Well... I know what to do now. Guess that's the bright side of it.
Come see our baby elephant (when it is out for view) and give me some notice. Maybe we could meet up or something. They said the thing is only 3 feet tall. I wannnnnaaaaa seeeeee!!!
10 comments:
Giggle..elephant breast pump!! Wowow!! Love the baby pic - so cute!!
The mayor thing..Spokane has had huge stupidity there too!! We have been lucky here in Coeur d Alene, ID..we have had the same wonderful mayor for years - looove her!! Hope things get better!!
Have a great Wednesday!! Sarah
My God! Crystal has an actual husband, with a photo and everything? I thought she made you up!
No, just kidding, of course. Really cool to find you, though. Came here from Funny Girl Goes Blog.
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I can do my designs digitally. Let me know if you would like me to design anything for you! :)
I love baby animals. The elephant is SO cute!
Did you see this? :( Poor baby...so tragic.
http://www.memphiszoo.org/default.aspx?p=15280&beid=106675
How sad that the baby died. Just a terrible accident.
How sad to read about the baby elephant! I may have to fly down to go to Smyrna in Sept. & I was hoping to stop in to see him(?) (her?)...Boo.
God, this makes me so sad for some reason. I mean, I can't stop thinking about that poor mother elephant. Ugh. This just sucks so much.
How SAD!!
omgosh...
:(
and she was only trying to help!?
*cries a little*
well...that just sucks...I go away from the internet for a few days and a baby elephant dies...now I'm sad...hell, I can't even watch those ASPCA commercials on TV because I'll cry if I see the sad dog faces...and now there's a dead baby elephant :(
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