"I'VE SEEN THE ELEPHANT!"

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"PICAYUNE PACHYDERM PANICS POPULACE!"
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How would you feel if you were hanging out clothes on your backyard clothesline, reached down to pick up a clothespin, and were handed ("trunked") one by a five-inch tall miniature bull elephant?

How would you feel if you were a bird, arriving for your morning bath at your birdbath,  and found a five-inch tall elephant already bathing there and "trunk-gargling?"  In YOUR birdbath!

Or, if you were a mother, reading in your easy chair and having a smoke (1953), and Baby Daughter toddles by with a plate of food for "the little elephant in my doll house?"

Well, all this happened in a  seven-minute 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon, which we entertainment and humor-starved college boys watched in Abilene, Texas,  and talked about for days.  Okay, so it may seem a little silly now, but then we weren't that many decades removed from vaudeville days, or even the beginning of talkies. Movie films were not so dark then, and you certainly wouldn't call this one--"cartoon noir!" Humor was not so sophisticated in those days, I guess.

Many was the time, particularly early in our marriage, that I told my wife about that "funny cartoon," in which the five-inch tall elephant walks across the psychiatrist's desk during a patient's interview, lets loose that big roar, and....well, you can watch it...in a minute! Today, I had a bright idea: I'd just Google that old cartoon and see what came up! I found it! And there seems to be a "following," like "Trekkies"---guess you could call us "Trunkies!" LOL.

The whole cartoon is on You Tube, plus the newspaper headline: "Picayune Pachyderm Panics Populace!" And the psychiatrist's scene! Let's lighten up, take seven, watch "PUNCH TRUNK," allow ourselves to soak up a little Americana from 59 years ago, and chuckle a little bit. Gather the kids and grandkids, and maybe practice that little elephant roar, yourself!(The kids will!)

Cartoon video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ8HtQW_siI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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BY MIL
6/25/12