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We told you last week that the annual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Pachyderm Parade was set to begin this morning at around 10 a.m. at Garfield Park. Reader Elisabeth Grant confirms the parade got off to an on-time start this morning, and sent us the capture below, taken at about 10:30 a.m. from her office window on 4th Street SE in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Check our map of the elephant parade route to see if the animals are heading toward you.
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and i will say again....BOO.
I concur....BOO
Triple BOO.
Ethically, I am not sure how I feel about marching elephants through DC.
However, I am having a shitty day and really wish they would change the route and march them by my building because that would make me feel a whole lot better. Plus my ethics are not going to stop them.
Ah, the old Nazi defense -- can't stop them, might as well join them. It always has to come back to Nazis, doesn't it?
But I not so secretly agree now too - the circus does enough to exploit the elephants already. But if they were marching by my office, I'd watch. And like it.
Agreed. They'd be much better off back in Africa where they can be hunted with bazookas for their tusks and their feet can be used for ottomans.
And that goes double for clowns.
I've posted some some photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaytamboli/archives/date-posted/2009/03/17/detail/
Nothing gets the day started like confining and torturing large wild animals!! Fuck you, Barnum & Bailey. I know where I WON'T be taking my nephew this weekend.
Nothing gets the day started like confining and torturing large wild animals!!
That's pretty much 90% of the jobs in DC, it's just that they don't involve some guy with a whip. Unfortunately.
Maybe not in your office.
My only question is, who's on clean up duty? Ew!
That EW you mention is worth its weight in GOLD. At this very moment people are working their way to those fertilizing lumps. The Spring flowers and vegetables will
thank them for it.
there are also paper products made from elephant dung (I prefer the word poo myself. That could be lucrative business in these hard times
Hint: Today's special at Sequoia is a pan seared organically pinched "loaf." Tell them to hold the hay.
No hay, no fiber.
Elephants usually barely digest their food, at least in the wild. I picked up some elephant poop in Zambia. It's just sort of dry grass with some dried up digestive juices on it. Didn't really smell.
Of course B&B probably feeds them ground up elephant, just like cows get fed with ground meat.
All of this is making me hungry for corned beef sandwich.
Yeah, the mad cows..the hungry hungry hippos..and the elegant elephants all compete in a delicious cycle. Like me, the mere mention of snow brings out the cannibal in me and I start making a list of which of my neighbors goes first.
They had a couple of sweepers following the elephants. I guess they just can't give up show business.
And by "sweepers" you mean "the Sequoia catering van?"
as it turns out, the trial against Feld Entertainment for asian animal abuse is wrapping up here in DC. closing arguments tomorrow at the federal court.
for those of you interested... http://www.eswr.com/ringling/