Promise you won’t tell a soul. Say it. SAY IT.
[Found here.]





[Image from here.]

“Daddy! Daddy! Were you watching? I’m an elephant poop! Watch me! I’m gonna be a BIG elephant poop! Watch me!”
Climbing up into its butt and being elephant vomit just can’t be nearly as much fun.
[Image from here. Related post here (and for his birfday, Phil gets a free pass through the pachyderm, in the direction of his choice).]

If you lived here, you wouldn’t need to keep your old trunk in the attic. From Wikipedia:
James Vincent de Paul Lafferty, Jr. (1856-1898) was an Irish-American inventor, most famous for his construction of Lucy the Elephant. Born to Irish parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received Patent Number 268503, on December 5, 1882 to protect his original invention, as well as any animal-shaped building. Broke by 1887, he was forced to sell her and in 1898, he died, and is buried in the cemetery of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Philadelphia.
This architectural gem was built, still stands, and is protected as an historical something or other. [You can see Lucy in all her glory in this previous post.]