Suppose you have an elephant with 56 millimeter trunk and say he's tearing up the jungle (say you think he's drunk or crazy) How're you going to bring that elephant down? lion can't bear could but don't want to and the panther's too small for that job. Then suppose you have an elephant with million millimeter trunk and his jungle is the whole green world? (and drunk and crazy) you see the problem. one more word about elephants No matter how hard they try elephants cannot pick their noses any more than bankers can hand out money or police put away their pistols or politicians get right with God. a sty in the elephant's eye aint nothing but a fly in his nose is a serious if not fatal condition when the fly gets into that nostril it begins to swell and stay closed he can't smell can't drink can't think can't get one up on anybody he begins to regret all that flabby ammunition hanging on him he begins to wish he'd been a little more bare-faced like an ape or a fish all those passageways he needs to feed himself tied up ELEPHANT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN by a fly a million flies outweigh a trunk a tank a bank a million flies outthink a pile of IBM junk we must be wise to the elephant's lies you may think we should try to sober him up but the trouble isn't that he's drunk the trouble is that he's an elephant with multi-millimeter trunk who believes the world is his jungle and until he dies he grows and grows we must be flies in the elephant's nose ready to carry on in every town you know there are butterflies there are horse flies and house flies blue flies, shoo flies and it's-not- true flies then there are may flies and wood flies but I'm talking about can flies & do flies bottle flies, rock flies and sock flies dragonflies and fireflies in the elephant's nose ready to carry on til he goes down Anonymous submission.
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