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If elephants had no trunks and no ears... (imgur.com)

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[–]nzhdeh 97 points98 points ago

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someone's gotta photoshop a real elephant, now i'm too curious

[–]JoshTheGoat 203 points204 points ago

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Nature Photoshopped it for you already

[–]ImLosingMyEdge 27 points28 points ago

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myth confirmed

[–]uwjames 36 points37 points ago

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You can tell by the genes.

[–]ToughNoogies 12 points13 points ago

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Now someone's gotta photoshop ears and a trunk onto a walrus.

[–]JoshTheGoat 19 points20 points ago

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Nature Photoshopped it for you already

[–]GreatWhiteForker -1 points0 points ago

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holy shit, that just made me shoot chocolate milk out of my nose. It burns, if you care to know...

good show, ol' sport

[–]hennell 69 points70 points ago

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Here. Not a perfect representation, but as good as I can be bothered with.

(N.B - For a more real/frighting version search "Elephant skulls" on Google Images. Very odd.)

[–]SGMidence 13 points14 points ago

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Hey... haven't I seen this before?

[–]MercurialMadnessMan -1 points0 points ago

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hehe. Needs a bit of a warp then it should be fine :)

[–]thedarkmrpickles 18 points19 points ago

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All you need to do is see an elephant skeleton.

[–]DanWallace 19 points20 points ago

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A skelephant!

[–]imarobot 2 points3 points ago

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This word is too cool. I must try to use in every day conversation.

[–]FizzyLiftingDrinks 3 points4 points ago

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I heard somewhere that this is where the myth of the cyclops started, from seeing an elephant skull.

[–]thedarkmrpickles 0 points1 point ago

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I've heard that too...and so apparently has this redditor!

[–]cookout 0 points1 point ago

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My attempt

Oh man... I'm super late to the game. oh well.

[–]wafu -4 points-3 points ago

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My humble attempt at photoshopping... http://imgur.com/WmMF7.jpg

[–]Shazzbot 35 points36 points ago

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http://imgur.com/vzIu9.jpg

He'll make you an offer you can't refuse.

[–]HereBeDragons 5 points6 points ago

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Looks a little like Cthulu to me.

[–]xMadxScientistx 4 points5 points ago

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Wow. That's an image I'll never forget.

[–]thedarkhaze 23 points24 points ago

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Source via Reddit

[–]just_some_chick 0 points1 point ago

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Thank you! I think it's pretty douchey to post without credit to the artist.

[–]diamond 20 points21 points ago

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I like this idea. Make up political activism posters protesting ridiculous, fictional problems and plaster them all over the place.

"Marriage should be between one human being and another human being! Vote 'Yes' to Proposition 21!"

"Does Des Moines need another Transdimensional Interchange? Vote 'No' on Prop 80!"

[–]pixel7000 22 points23 points ago

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This idea is irrelephant to the discussion.

[–]xMadxScientistx 4 points5 points ago

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Don't truncate the discussion!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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you guys are a pach y derm fools.

[–]tehstealthy 4 points5 points ago

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There should be a subreddit of illogical causes.

[–]imnotyourkid 38 points39 points ago

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I wanted to see what it would look like, too. Unfortunately my photoshop skills are...eh...limited. Someone else needs to do this the right way!

http://imgur.com/7XcZV.png

http://imgur.com/8VXHk.png

[–]Virtualmatt 17 points18 points ago

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It looks like a manatee now.

[–]smew 6 points7 points ago

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The first one looks like an ultralisk.

[–]SonataNo8 2 points3 points ago

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I wonder how many zerglings it could kill if it had full upgrades.

[–]S7evyn 4 points5 points ago

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All of them.

[–]hennell 1 point2 points ago

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I tried that first pic, but gave up due to the angle. Found a better source, and posted here.

[–]ElliotofHull -1 points0 points ago

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Woahhh

[–]Cydrid 45 points46 points ago

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Wouldn't they just kinda look like walruses?

[–]akimmaht 8 points9 points ago

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YEP

[–]ckcornflake 12 points13 points ago

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If you take away the tusks, you get a storm trooper helmet.

[–]shatterly 0 points1 point ago

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That was the first thing I thought.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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There used to to be a type of dwarf elephant that lived on the Mediterranean islands. It had a smaller skull and shorter tusks. The Greeks found them and thought they were cyclops bones.

[–]AngryData 5 points6 points ago

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If I found bones like that back then I would think it was from a cyclops too.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I kinda wish we still explained new scientific discoveries with answers like "cyclops bones."

[–]Mozzarella_Firefox 3 points4 points ago

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This is very Relephant.

[–]Sir_Knumskull 2 points3 points ago*

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Similiar rule applies to bears.

Bears without fur are insanely scary.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Don't forget raccoons without fur.

[–]DragonHunter 2 points3 points ago

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Photoshopped

[–]NotDifferent 4 points5 points ago

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I've been scared of butterflies ever since I've imagined them without wings.

[–]xMadxScientistx 4 points5 points ago

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They can't hurt you unless they fly into your mouth.

[–]unrealious 2 points3 points ago

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That no eared, de-trunked, cyclops elephant looked especially terrifying.

[–]wthulhu 5 points6 points ago

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why does it still have ears?

[–]magicwar1 8 points9 points ago

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scroll down.

[–]wthulhu 10 points11 points ago

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the fuck? how did i miss that the first time? i'm not even drunk.

[–]himynameisadam 2 points3 points ago

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Kinda looks like grampa: http://imgur.com/tHre9.jpg

[–]bdfortin 7 points8 points ago

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If elephants had no trunks and no ears we would have grown up seeing them as such and would not be terrified of how they look.

[–]baddox 23 points24 points ago

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But spiders look terrifying even though they've always looked that way.

[–]bdfortin 10 points11 points ago

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Only because they could swarm and overpower you at any moment.

[–]windybranches 7 points8 points ago

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I suspect that it wouldn't take as many elephants as spiders to swarm and overpower a person, though.

[–]bdfortin 2 points3 points ago

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But the elephants wouldn't be crawling all over your skin using 8 hairy legs, would they?

[–]KainBlackheart 4 points5 points ago

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What if elephants had no trunks or ears and 8 hairy legs?

[–]bdfortin 2 points3 points ago

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Chaos.

[–]Jowitz 1 point2 points ago

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I disagree, I think jumping spiders look quite cute.

And most other spiders I just find sort of silly although there are definitely some exceptions.

But centipedes: there's one creature that I've never thought looked nice.

[–]andytronic 1 point2 points ago

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But some of the funny came from the subtle implication that their trunks and ears were possibly going to be removed, for some unknown reason.

[–]spacelincoln 6 points7 points ago

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I've seen this on the actual comic page somewhere. Can we as a community start giving credit where credit is due and stop posting comics to imgur?

[–]thedarkhaze 6 points7 points ago

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Well you can't find it through tineye had to search for it, but I did eventually find the source.

[–]User38691 2 points3 points ago

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I think the best way is to link to imgur and make a comment with the artist's page.

That way you're not accidentally killing someone's website, after which people have to ask for a mirror anyway. (Sites like Oglaf just can't handle a frontpage submission.)

[–]Frazzydee 1 point2 points ago

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Why not just post a link to coral cache?

[–]User38691 0 points1 point ago

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I'm not familiar with that, but if it is able to provide it in an easy way I'd say sure.

Now we just need to convince everybody! I wonder what would happen to Imgur...

[–]Frazzydee 1 point2 points ago

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It's very easy. Just add .nyud.net to the end of the domain.

It should retain ads also, so win-win. The only problem is that it can be kind of slow, but I wouldn't be surprised if their algorithm takes into account the number of hits so the speed gets better with popularity.

[–]EatSleepJeep 4 points5 points ago

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I know I'm not the only one that sees the resemblance

[–]Pronell 4 points5 points ago

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Oh...

Alright.

sigh

[–]Phunk131 0 points1 point ago

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Yes please...

[–]DanWallace 1 point2 points ago

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Well sure, anything's terrifying if you give it an evil grin, a skull-nose, and an angry brow.

[–]theduckchaser 1 point2 points ago

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This is my next political campaign.

[–]aristideau 1 point2 points ago

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Fred Negro?

[–]lvwhtboyz 1 point2 points ago

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They look a little bit like Ferengi. But with tusks.

[–]DragonHunter 7 points8 points ago

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If elephants had no trunks and no ears...

[–]CrazySpaniard 2 points3 points ago

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why are people downvoting this? It is relevant, and I found the image amusing

[–]DragonHunter 1 point2 points ago

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Makes no sense to me. I think teh internets hate me.

[–]efrique 0 points1 point ago

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poor bastards would have to drink through straws.

[–]BannedINDC 0 points1 point ago

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Well, when you draw them as terrifying to begin with then yeah...

[–]bfish510 0 points1 point ago

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Ultralisk

[–]terriblecomic 0 points1 point ago

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i remember seeing this on somethingawful 4 years ago

[–]Razed 0 points1 point ago

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Even just minus the trunks they're bad ass.

[–]Cdresden -1 points0 points ago

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This post is a year old.

[–]bigbadbass -1 points0 points ago

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A lot of people have joined reddit in that year.

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