There is a joke hiding here, waiting to spring out, but I'm not touching it with a 1.5 meter pole, cut or uncut.
The Sun Online - TV: A jumbo tusk for scientists :
MASTURBATING an elephant in the cause of science isn’t an easy job – just ask wildlife expert Dr Thomas Hildebrandt.
Just touching a jumbo penis – they measure more than 1.5 metres (or six feet for you yankers) when aroused – can have painful consequences as German scientist Dr Hildebrandt reveals.
He said: “One guy I know got a black eye from being hit by an elephant’s penis.
”When you touch an elephant there it starts to flick backwards and forwards and it’s so strong it can knock you off your feet. It’s such a strong movement.“
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It’s a messy business as he massages Jackson’s prostate gland to produce 300ml of semen per orgasm – the equivalent of a can of Coke – which has to be airlifted in giant condoms across America to Christy.
Artificially inseminating an elephant is just as messy – while a catheter is inserted into the cervix, the hapless scientist faces being [shat] on.
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The programme [broadcasting on BBC2 3/20/07] will also look at the problem of getting semen from a sedated rare northern white rhino and viewers will meet killer whale Shamu who is only too happy to provide sperm samples in the name of science when his trainer shows him a special collection bag.
Wonder what the special collection bag looks like?
(h/t, of course)
You'll get weird hits from Google searches for this post.
I should add the phrase big cock somewhere, shouldn't I?
Just add Matt Sanchez.
I guess it isn't as bad as the Darwin Award candidate (possibly a hoax) who suffocated under 200 pounds of elephant droppings after giving a laxative and enema to a constipated elephant.
@mike - yikes! I'll have to look for that story.
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oh, too bad, Snopes says it is false.
Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly — and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!
Ha-ha-ha! This was really funny, relly funny! I never use the huahua expressions at all, but after reading about these scientists, that was the first feeling I wanted to express back to you.
See addendum here