The Elephant
Joke
With many thanks to Frank Cresswell
and his memory.
My much-loved daughter Bethany has promised to tell this joke at my funeral; Frank Cresswell and I are, I think, the only two people in the world who have thought that this joke is genuinely hilarious.
A mouse was once walking through the jungle when it heard, in the
distance, a great trumpeting noise. Fascinated, the mouse headed
towards the noise and came to the top of a large clearing. At the
far end of the clearing was a magnificent bull-elephant with its
trunk raised to the heavens, giving it its all.
‘Wow!’
thought
the
mouse and strolled down the clearing to stand in front of the
elephant.
Looking up, the
mouse said ‘Wow! Mr Elephant, aren’t you just so big and
magnificent and so very, very loud!’
Looking
down,
the
elephant said ‘Well, that’s just how elephants are. Aren’t you
small and grey’.
The
mouse said ‘Well, I’ve been ill.’