WITHOUT CHEATING, how many elephants can you name?

Bob411 said:
Trying not to cheat but, this is bothering me. Dumbo makes me think of Disney, which makes me think of Fantasia. Was there an elephant doing ballet in it? Lots of elephants doing ballet in it? Any names? Did this happen or was it just the drugs?
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Yeah, there are dancing elephants in Fantasia. The ‘Dance of the Hours’ ballet from Poncielli’s La Giocanda. Fantasia is older than Dumbo, but the elephants aren’t named, and are therefore deemed irrelevant because @smurfco said so. What a jerk.
 
I can name ALL of the elephants...show me one, I'll name that sumbich...show me thousand and I'll name all dem sumbiches. I don't fuck around with not naming elephants like some sorta republiturd!
 
I know a guy who could tell you the name and history of every elephant ever in America. Show him a picture and he could tell you who owned it, it's name (s), birth, death and everything it did in between. Unfortunately old age has got him and he no longer can do it. Someday his files will go somewhere.
 
Bob411 said:
Trying not to cheat but, this is bothering me. Dumbo makes me think of Disney, which makes me think of Fantasia. Was there an elephant doing ballet in it? Lots of elephants doing ballet in it? Any names? Did this happen or was it just the drugs?
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I do not have the memory for names that @Flamencology . Of course I remember the Babar stories, but did not remember those names. Nor the names of the elephants in the audio book on vinyl LP version of Junglebook I listened to endlessly as a kid up at my grandparents in Everett, WA on the old Magnavox console stereo. There was the cute long haired kid one, and all the stuffy pompous elephants on military parade ones as well.
 
Flamencology said:
Yeah, there are dancing elephants in Fantasia. The ‘Dance of the Hours’ ballet from Poncielli’s La Giocanda. Fantasia is older than Dumbo, but the elephants aren’t named, and are therefore deemed irrelevant because @smurfco said so. What a jerk.
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I honestly forgot there were dancing elephants in Fantasia, but clearly remember dancing hippos. Huh.

Mostly I remember "Night on Bald Mountain." :love:
 
Lucy the Elephant Hotel in Margate, NJ
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It's been a hundred years since I've read this so I can't remember much about it, but there's some connection with Koko to Babar, and elephants and elephant symbolism play pretty heavily in the book.

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Kerouac said:
Holy crap, I haven't thought about that book in forever. Pretty twisted thriller.
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+1

I reslly enjoyed it at the time, but for the life of me I cannot remember how it ended. I wonder does it still hold up today?

I recall one of the characters from Koko was in another of his novels called The Blue Rose, but I can't remember a single damn thing about that one.
 
Motorik said:
+1

I reslly enjoyed it at the time, but for the life of me I cannot remember how it ended. I wonder does it still hold up today?

I recall one of the characters from Koko was in another of his novels called The Blue Rose, but I can't remember a single damn thing about that one.
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The ending is a bit ambiguous because *spoilers below for a 30+ year old book*:








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There were two people they thought were Koko, but the real killer was a third person from their platoon that they thought was dead. He was framing another one of them, and escaped to somewhere in South America, Hannibal Lector style. One of the suspected Kokos died, the other survived IIRC, and THAT is the dude in the other books.

Ghost Story, Koko, and the Talisman/Black House were what I read by him in the 90's, and I was a teenager so some of the plot details are a bit muddled. Talisman I probably know best, just because I've read it multiple times and it also crosses over a bit with The Dark Tower.
 
Kerouac said:
The ending is a bit ambiguous because *spoilers below for a 30+ year old book*:








:embarrassed:








:embarrassed:






There were two people they thought were Koko, but the real killer was a third person from their platoon that they thought was dead. He was framing another one of them, and escaped to somewhere in South America, Hannibal Lector style. One of the suspected Kokos died, the other survived IIRC, and THAT is the dude in the other books.

Ghost Story, Koko, and the Talisman/Black House were what I read by him in the 90's, and I was a teenager so some of the plot details are a bit muddled. Talisman I probably know best, just because I've read it multiple times and it also crosses over a bit with The Dark Tower.
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The whole latter half of the book is a total blank in my mind. None of that is ringing any bells. I remember they went to Singapore, and saw a woman being murdered in a snuff kinda scene, and I remember that the killer was trying to kill the Taiwanese GF, but it's all a big blur. I really enjoyed it at the time, but that was at least 30 years ago.

Maybe I'll give it a reread. I really liked it at the time.
 
I remember almost none of the details and more of a general vibe instead. What sticks with me is that it was truly creepy with a genuine sense of dread in a way that other novels in the same genre weren't.
 
dmn23 said:
I remember almost none of the details and more of a general vibe instead. What sticks with me is that it was truly creepy with a genuine sense of dread in a way that other novels in the same genre weren't.
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It was pretty graphic too, maybe not compared to Clive Barker, but the Koko killer was pretty vicious, physically dismembering and desecrating his victims. I seem to recall it dealt with a lot of PTSD and nightmare stuff too, which is probably what made it stick out compared to other horror of the time. You should try The Talisman, which is the one he co-authored with Stephen King. Horror-fantasy-mystery-adventure. Supposedly Amblin Entertainment has been working on producing a series for Netflix off of it.
 
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