All I know about elephants – except I’ve seen quite a few real ones in circuses and zoos and been up real close, within ten feet, while they ate – is that they are the mascot of Republicans – maybe because they look a lot like most Republicans. Also, they’re big, take up a lot of room and eat a lot. Only difference is, actual elephants are more useful.
I watch some of the reality shows now and then because they beat some of the other crap on unpaid TV, but I remember having to turn the station (usually only temporarily) when beautiful American women and handsome American men, seemingly most of them college-educated, were willing to eat raw worms – good protein that it be, so I guess that’s not so bad, only disgusting to my cooking-programmed mind – but what was much worse, things like “pigs’ uteruses, washed nice and clean if you please (I really wondered whose idea was that one), not to mention the live cockroaches (who washes them?) and live spiders” messed with not for money – though couldn’t blame them for that in this tough world if it’s worth it to them – but for a mere “chance” at winning 50,000 dollars, for the show was far from over and tough competitors remained – I thought to myself, should I fear most these educated people who will do this for 50,000 dollars, or the producers who every week put this into their show? Actually, I fear most the producers, for, what will they put on next? Just imagine the power of money! Actually, I like to think it was not the money so much as the chance to play the game in front of a million people on TV that motivated our highly educated contenders. Or is it a kind of machoism? And, I think the prize was only 50,000 dollars, as on Fear Factor; if it was 50 million dollars I take it all back; we all have our price, even I, and even this last sum might be negotiable, somewhat. Go ahead, talk me into it. (joking, of course, even 5 million might persuade me).