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Elephants never forget, but is water their alcohol?

I'm pretty sure elephants (and any mammal/animal for that matter... right?) can get drunk off alcohol... but they drink water all the time, so if they're drinking water 'to forget,' I wanna go hug each and every one of them even more than I already do.

thisishowiamsurviving reblogged your post A Cleveland famous drummer told me thi... and added:

like when people drink alcohol, they drink “to forget” and they’re saying elephants do too

But I feel like 'water' could have been added in on purpose? Like there is some science side of this I'm missing, maybe?

patheticallypenguin reblogged your post A Cleveland famous drummer told me thi... and added:

are you sure it wasn’t just “Why do elephants drink?”

A year ago? Ah, last year was quite similar to the current. It was much tamer, though.

Rule 1: Always post the rules.

Rule 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked, and come up with 11 new ones.

Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to the post.

Rule 4: Actually tell them that you tagged them. I'm going to break them because I really like patheticallypenguin's questions and I'm about to go celebrate Charles passing his comprehensive exams so I've got to wrap this up! I'm not going to tag others, as usual, because I want anyone and everyone to do this. And please, please do it and please, please tag me because I am seriously nosy. :D

1. Where are you from? Tennessee

2. What’s the meaning behind your URL? It's pretty straight-forward. I'm very uncreative when it comes to screen names... and just titles in general. It's just a pun on my name, as well as a personal guilt trip every time I see it. :)

3. What’s something that makes you happy and all warm and fuzzy inside? :3  Watching cats bathe themselves. Cupcakes. My nieces and nephews. Using my husband's stomach as a pillow. Tea.

4. If you could travel anywhere (including fictional places), where would you want to go? Uh, where WOULDN'T I go? I have no sense of self-preservation and I don't care how dull everyone else thinks it is. I'd go anywhere. My husband, ensign-charles, had to go on a business trip to Indiana once and didn't take me, and I pouted for, like, two weeks. But, okay, a place I really want to go--Antarctica. I will get there one day.

5. What’s a talent you wish you were better at? (Like.. writing, or drawing, or surfing or whatever) I'd love to be better at writing, of course. But that's kind of a cheat answer since I can (and will) be better at it; it just takes practice and discipline. So let's say singing. I'd like to not sound like a dying hyena every time I'm singing along to a song on the radio. Charles would probably like that as well.  

6. What’s something about yourself that you’re actually proud of? My thesis. It was a long, arduous process and I hated myself at the time for choosing the thesis option, but I'm really proud now and I think it's pretty good. 

7. What’s something you wish you could do one day? (Like take a trip somewhere, or sky diving, or run away to the circus, something like that) Finish a novel.

8. A weird habit you have, or a weird thing you like to snack on Uh... I floss constantly? Is that a weird habit? I mean, it's probably too much. It's a problem. If I'm bored, I just grab some floss.  

9. Your favourite toy, or thing to play as a kid Magazines. Particularly, my mom's Redbooks.

10. Your favourite memory Holding my oldest niece for the first time. My sister was a high risk pregnancy--very, very low platelets--and she lost too much blood during delivery and kind of passed out, so she had to be given platelets and a blood transfusion to bring her around, and her husband was too distracted to hold Adyson. Adyson was stable, though, and the nursery nurse asked if I was family and if she could give her to me so she could at least stay in the room with her parents. I was the first person to hold my niece and I got to show her to Brook and even though she was barely conscious, she was just so happy to see her daughter for the first time. When Adyson started crying, I rocked her and she stopped and fell asleep. I'll never have children, so it was just a very special moment, something I never thought I'd get to experience.

11. Tell me a joke? :’D I don't know any good jokes off the top of my head, so how about a funny story from the early days of dating my husband? So, I have this terrible habit of getting lost in my thoughts while someone is talking, and that's what I did on the first night I met Charles when we were exchanging names and numbers. (This was just three weeks after I started college, by the way.) Anyway, I missed his name, so I just put his number into my phone under "Boy" and then he called and we started dating, but I didn't know how to ask about his name at that point because I was really awkward. Things kind of escalated quickly and soon I was staying over at his place a lot. One evening, I was using his shower because it was a blissful alternative to the dorm's community showers, and his shower curtain fell on top of me. I didn't know what to do, so I grabbed my towel and stepped out into the hall, prepared to call his name to get his attention... and then I realized I couldn't because I didn't know his name. And you have to understand, I was a sheltered kid. I went to a private Christian school and everything, and although I didn't see myself as religious anymore at that point, it was still a shocking moment for me. I was in the hallway of some guy's house, naked except for a towel, dripping water onto his carpet, and unable to call him by his name because I didn't know it. And I just remember thinking, "Wooow, Kari, your college experience went downhill FAST." That night, I asked to see his driver's license (I think I said something stupid like, "I just want to see if it's as bad as mine"), learned his name, and married him four years later... and then told him this story on our honeymoon (after I abandoned him in Mexico, but that's another story). Oh, and P.S., my parents really love it when we tell them this story. And we tell it a lot.  

let’s see…. praising Kurama… Nope. Haven’t been let down. IjustreallyloveKuramaokay