Elephant hangovers
The Indian Butter Tree, known as “Madhuca longifolia” has been the main component in Adivasi liquor and has historically been limited by law in India. The Adivasi community has relied upon the tree to create fermented pot fermented spirit known as Mahua liquor. Native tribes collect the berries and cook them in large pots and then let the mash work on its own in large open crocks before filtering and decanting to bottles. The workers from one village went into the jungle at around 6 am to prepare muhua and found that the pots were broken and the fermented liquor was missing. They found a herd of 15 elephants sleeping off hangovers after drinking alcohol made by villagers. The elephants came across the brew and apparently couldn’t resist a buzz.
Elephants are known to be fans of mahua, according to Kartick Satyanarayan, the chief executive of Wildlife SOS. “When they smell it, they can poke their trunks into kitchens or break down walls to get to it. Once finished, they stagger back home, toppling the odd tree or house on the way.” Locals from the village of Salipada left the jars of alcohol fermenting in the jungle, the elephants apparently lost sight of what their alcohol limit was and drank all of the mahua until they blacked out. Local wildlife officials reportedly woke up the heavy sleepers by beating on drums, and the hungover animals slowly got up and stumbled back into the forest. This was not the first occurrence of elephants drinking more than they can handle. A day earlier, Motilal Basor, 60, and his wife Muliya Bai, 55, were attacked when they were collecting mahua by the same herd of elephants in the nearby Amjhor forest range. “Elephants love it. It’s pure, it’s tasty, and it’s powerful.” Elephants have become addicted to ‘mahua’ and have gone on frenzied searches for the alcohol. Elephants are drawn to the smell of mahua. “Biology Letters” found that elephants may be able to get drunk on small quantities of alcohol relative to their size because they are unable to metabolize alcohol in the same way as humans. The herd that villagers from Salipada found asleep in the jungle did not harm the locals and instead staggered away into the bush.
12 Step Mirth
A pink elephant walks into a bar.
The barman looks at him and says,
“You’re too early mate, she’s not in yet”
An insurance agent was writing a policy for a zookeeper. “Have you ever had any accidents?” “No,” said the zookeeper. “But once a rattlesnake bit me, And an elephant stepped on my foot.” “Don’t you call those accidents?” asked the insurance agent. “No,” replied the zookeeper, “They did them on purpose.”
A guy wakes up after some heavy drinking. He sees a purple giraffe standing next to his bed. “What are you looking at?” – The drunk asks the giraffe.
Giraffe responded: “There are so many of you drunks, that we ran out of pink elephants.”
So I decided to get drunk last night and do my taxes
I’m getting back $4,000,000.
January 21st Birthdays
1957 – Geena Davis, 1996 – Dymond Goods, 1995 – Marny Kennedy, 1976 – Emma Bunton
1964 – Hakeem Olajuwom, 1998 – Booboo Stewart, 1984 – Luke Grimes, 1941 – Placido Domingo