If you acquired an elephant's foot, what would you do with it?

[bluestreak]

If you were serious I would literally marry you.

*polishes shotgun*

I have a lot of junk, but aside from the dessicated corpse of madeline mccann, i have no antique hunting trophies. i used to have a stuffed stoat but it got an infestation so we gave it a viking burial. well, if the vikings had invented fireworks. I also have a collection of my own teeth. I offered to carve them into a wedding ring for my girlfriend but she turned me down on that one, perhaps it's more your sort of thing?

 

[Badgers]

Dunno to be honest.....

 

[spring-peeper]

yuck, gross, disgusting

I wouldn't "acquire" an elephants foot. It would be left wherever I found/was given it and no one I know is brave enough to bring it to my door.

*shudder*

 

[dodgepot]

i'd make it into a mini commode.

 

[Pip]

*polishes shotgun*

I have a lot of junk, but aside from the dessicated corpse of madeline mccann, i have no antique hunting trophies. i used to have a stuffed stoat but it got an infestation so we gave it a viking burial. well, if the vikings had invented fireworks. I also have a collection of my own teeth. I offered to carve them into a wedding ring for my girlfriend but she turned me down on that one, perhaps it's more your sort of thing?

I've got a collection of teeth too! We're made for each other bluestreak!! Two are real and my ex boyfriend's wisdom teeth. I wear them on a necklace like a head hunter. The other ones I have are vintage dentures on strips of wax, and when I get round to it I'll put them all in a box frame.
I also have a taxidermy crow in a bell jar, and a dozen mounted insects and butterflies.

 

[Iam]

Throw it away, I'd expect. I certainly wouldn't want it around.

 

[Pip]

yuck, gross, disgusting

I wouldn't "acquire" an elephants foot. It would be left wherever I found/was given it and no one I know is brave enough to bring it to my door.

*shudder*

I'd bring it to your door and wave it at you

 

[bluestreak]

vintage dentures. man, they're great. and kind of odd. have you ever been to the wellcome trust's permanant exhibition? it's a massive room full of "i want that!"

 

[Pip]

vintage dentures. man, they're great. and kind of odd. have you ever been to the wellcome trust's permanant exhibition? it's a massive room full of "i want that!"

Yeah

 

[Madusa]

Do you guys also collect pickled baby penises in glass jars too?

 

[Pip]

Do you guys also collect pickled baby penises in glass jars too?

Are you offering? I'll give you a good price.

 

[Kanda]

I'd probably start walking funny.

 

[Madusa]

I dont have any.

But I maybe able to get you a collection of aborted foetuses.

 

[editor]

I'd drill two eye holes in it and wear it as a stylish hat.

 

[marty21]

look for a 3 legged elephant

 

[MrSki]

Become a porn star.

 

[bluestreak]

Do you guys also collect pickled baby penises in glass jars too?

Only because I haven't seen any at a price I can afford.

But I'd prefer the entire pickled baby.

 

[bluestreak]

I dont have any.

But I maybe able to get you a collection of aborted foetuses.

Are they dried or pickled? Or just pulled out of the hospital bins?

Or worse, your own.

That's possibly better actually.

 

[kained&able]

I'd use it as a butter dish.


dave

 

[zenie]

Eww grim I wouldn't want it in my house.

You can't use the leather argument cos leather's a bi-product of the meat industry.

To display an elephant's foot even if it is mega old is still showing it off like it's a good thing to have, however you try and dress it up as antique it's still akin to hunting for fun.

 

[fredfelt]

For its intended purpose, something to rest your legs on

 

[fredfelt]

I'd use it as a butter dish.


dave

Ha! So they would leave no footprints

 

[Pip]

You guys! It's not 1987 any more, you don't have to pretend to be principled! Elephant feet for all!

I'm going to go with the coffee table idea - anyone know where I can get a nice piece of polished wood?

 

[MrSki]

A timber merchants?

 

[Pip]

A timber merchants?

I'm thinking a nice piece of walnut, ready to go. I might just buy a cheap side table and lop the legs off (no pun intended etc).

 

[Kanda]

I'm going to go with the coffee table idea - anyone know where I can get a nice piece of polished wood?

Chop down a tree in the amazon while you're at it

 

[Pip]

Chop down a tree in the amazon while you're at it

 

[fredfelt]

Chop down a tree in the amazon while you're at it

Just don't get an elephant to drag it away - it would only go in circles

 

[editor]

I'm thinking a nice piece of walnut, ready to go.

Surely a slab of illegally imported rain forest rare wood might look nicer?

 

[teuchter]

I'm going to go with the coffee table idea

Boring boring boring.

You didn't need to start a thread to come to that conclusion. You've wasted lots of people's intellectual energy this afternoon. I for one will bear a grudge.