The Sum of the Human Experience in Two Paragraphs

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:34 am

Okay, so I am looking for free pictures of elephants. I thought I had a few from the Renaissance Fair, but I guess not. It matters not, because I found one! On the Internet, too. S C O R E !

Here's the license:

You may use this picture for personal use, but there are restrictions on publishing or commercial uses.

This picture was taken at a zoo, museum, or private attraction that may have some restriction as to how photos can be used. If you use the picture for non-personal use they might sue you.

I can tell you from personal experience that these types of institutions will be very unyielding when it comes to licensing and commercial use. In fact they may tell you that commercial use is prohibited period, and to not even bother asking. Usually they will have an arrangement with another company which will have the sole right to publish and license photos and videos. So if you piss them off you'll actually get sued by both the zoo and the agency they contract with.

While they might not mind, there is about a 100% chance they won't let you use the photo for anything other than personal use. And they would have a very straight forward case if they decided to sue you. Don't be a dumbass. If you have any questions about whether something like that is a problem, contact me and I'll help track it down.

Copyright law surrounding this sort of material is a huge grey area. But copyright holders don't see it that way. I would strongly advise you to not use this image for commercial purposes. Private use is probably fine.

Any time the license includes "don't be a dumbass" I pause, I choke, I bathe in the warning. Copyright holders, like elephants themselves, are purported to have a long memory.

by **bruce** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:10 pm

AArdvark wrote:

SCARRRRRYY! I'm not kidding you this time

Dude. I had that game.

Bruce

by **AArdvark** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:14 pm

SCARRRRRYY! I'm not kidding you this time

by **AArdvark** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:34 pm

Elephants can be very stupid then...

THE
SIT ON THE BALL
AARDVARK

by **AArdvark** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:33 pm

A note on the aforementioned Time-Life mysterys of the unknown books...

A friend of mine had them, much to my unknowing, and when I helped her move I discoverd them in a cardboard box otherwise occupied by old National Geographic mags. (why does NOBODY ever throw those out? Must be the glossy paper) I immedatly claimed temporary ownership of the seven or eight volumes and spent the next two or three weeks perusing them.

Results: You can find more information on the internet than by reading those books. Seriously, they may have been cool as a youth but they are mainly very thin info-wise as an inquiring adult.

Take one phenomenon... Let's take the Bermuda Triangle just as an example. There are three or four pages, complete with artist renderings of the missing planes and ships. Lavish prose extolls the dangers of either getting sucked up by a UFO or opening some weird time warp to Hong Kong in the late Ffifties or other suchlike nonsense.

Any topic covered in those slim volumes can be found with much more detail right in front of you as you read this! (unless you are reading this from your cell phone on a bus to Denver, in which case there is another mystery subject... )

THE
19.95
CANCEL ANYTIME
AARDVARK

by **bruce** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:21 pm

Jeff Foxworthy wrote:If you live in a state, where you can drive in any direction for 7 hours AND STILL be in the same state YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK!!!!

If you think Wisconsin and Missouri are the same state, you MIGHT BE A FUCKING IDIOT!!!!

Bruce

by **Jeff Foxworthy** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:16 pm

If you live in a state, where you can drive in any direction for 7 hours AND STILL be in the same state YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK!!!!

by **bruce** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:52 pm

Roody_Yogurt wrote:I don't think Bruce and Amy are an easy drive away, but it's something that could be done in a day, and Debaser, of course, isn't far at all.

Yeah, The Loo is about six-seven hours from Roody.

Bruce

by **Roody_Yogurt** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:40 pm

I don't think Bruce and Amy are an easy drive away, but it's something that could be done in a day, and Debaser, of course, isn't far at all.

There happens to be a place that sells arcade machines just down the road from me, and they do have a yearly convention at the State Fair Grounds (also just down the road) for arcade games. Can't remember what time of year it is.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:20 pm

Knuckles the CLown wrote:I watched the same stupid show 20 years ago you did Robb. What was that from TIME-LIFE myseries of the unknown??

I don't know, but my Nostalgia Sense is kicking in. I remember how much I wanted those Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown books. I wanted them BAD. We used to go to the Merton Williams Middle School Library and check those things out during study halls. I didn't need to study during Middle School Study Hall because it was middle school.

(None of us did. I don't mean to imply otherwise.)

I am wondering how much those things would be on eBay or Abe Books or whathaveyou. Time to investigate! Knuckles may get a Christmas present that even he did not anticipate!

by **Knuckles the CLown** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:14 pm

Robb fucked it up. You CHAIN the baby elephant down when it is young. After a while it realizes it cannot break the chain. When it is older you can just tie rope around its leg and it doesn't think it can snap it and get away, figuring anytime something is tied to its leg it is unable to break it.
This is done so when you move/walk them as an adult you don't have to carry a 200 pound chain around, just lead them with a small rope. If anyone should know about the circus it's this humble clown.

I watched the same stupid show 20 years ago you did Robb. What was that from TIME-LIFE myseries of the unknown??

by **Vitriola** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:00 pm

Is it that the elephants are actually stronger than the rope, or just stronger than the human leading the elephant around by it?

by co » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:48 pm

icj wrote:we teach them that a rope is stronger than they are when they are young and then lead them around by a rope because they made a mental association

I didn't know that about elephants, thanks Jonsey. Who knew jc could be entertaining and informative?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:33 pm

Roody_Yogurt wrote:Also, my friend Andy was in the Peace Corps in Africa for a couple years. The parents of one of his Peace Corps associates came to visit her. The mother was killed by an elephant in a wildlife reserve. It's crazy to think that I know someone who knows someone who was killed by an elephant, but hopefully that makes you feel better that there are elephants out there fighting the good fight.

...

Good grief!

*The Penny Arcade guy would sooner rip his tits off than not put that word "understand" in italics.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:32 pm

Roody_Yogurt wrote:Hey, you guys should come to Wisconsin and we can go to the Circus World Museum. Been meaning to go there for years.

It might be time to go to Wisconsin. You guys have ten thousand copies of like every arcade game EVER MADE over there. And I'm eventually going to want one.

You're close to Bruce and Amy as well, right? Maybe we should think about this for 2007. It's too soon for me to commit, but this should be researched. Someone should knock on Debaser's account as well. JC FUN FAX: lately, when looking for good threads to be added to the best of base, I just start following Debaser's post history.

by **Roody_Yogurt** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:14 pm

Also, my friend Andy was in the Peace Corps in Africa for a couple years. The parents of one of his Peace Corps associates came to visit her. The mother was killed by an elephant in a wildlife reserve. It's crazy to think that I know someone who knows someone who was killed by an elephant, but hopefully that makes you feel better that there are elephants out there fighting the good fight.

by **Roody_Yogurt** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:09 pm

Hey, you guys should come to Wisconsin and we can go to the Circus World Museum. Been meaning to go there for years.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:02 pm

What animal has been shat upon by man more than the elephant? Actually, probably lots, but elephants look WISE. I can't handle it, I really can't. Some people are weird about dog cruelty. I think we can all safely say that cats deserve to have the stuffing beat out of them early and often.

But man, being mean to an elephant. They look like they suffer humans because someone promised them a prize in the afterlife if they didn't kill as many of us as possible. We take their ivory, we make wastebaskets out of their feet, we teach them that a rope is stronger than they are when they are young and then lead them around by a rope because they made a mental association, we kill as many as we possibly can and for all we know if they had better teeth they could live 200 years.

Honestly, I'm not saying I would like to die by being mauled by an elephant but if I went that way I'd at least understand. *

by **Lysander** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:28 pm

And nobody likes you.

by **pinback** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:39 am

I would trade an elephant for a 2-gallon jug of rum.

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