Talk:White elephant
From Academic Kids
Very amused to see that the Myanmar government abbreviated white elephant to Welephant (http://www.welephant.co.uk/enter.htm) in their URL. Oaky, kids, all together:
- Matches, matches, never touch,
- They can hurt you very much.
- Welephant should sue. This is outrageous. Long live the West Midlands Fire Brigade! etc (well, if they stop striking every few days...) --taras
Why are they white? Is it a mutation, like albinism? AxelBoldt 19:25 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)
- Something like that. I don't actually know. Bagpuss
(another possible reason for the king's accumulation of white elephants is the fact that he has reigned for over 58 years That makes no sense to me, unless all the previous king's elephants are slaughtered when he dies. Otherwise each new king would inherit the previous king's elephants, and reign length is irrelevant. I'll rm unless anyone knows better. Markalexander100 03:20, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Sue, a white element in Sri Lanka (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3991861.stm). A-giau 02:05, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
List of white elephants
Shouldn't we have a list of famous white elephants? For example, Hubble Space Telescope during its early development and deployment, in a sense of a valuable possession whose keeping is excessively burdensome. — Dennis Valeev 15:25, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
