🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkcake to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoI have the memory of an elephant.message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1131arrow-down1message-squareI have the memory of an elephant.🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkcake to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 days ago…I feel dumb. I don’t get it.
minus-squareug01x@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 days agoThere is an idea or saying that elephants never forget or that they have very good memories First article in google about this. So to say you have a memory of an elephant could mean your memory is very good. The twist is that this can also mean you remember seeing an elephant, which is what the second line implies.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoOooooooooh. Ok. Confirmed. K. Am dumb. I even knew about the elephants memory from a pbs documentary I watched 10 years ago. Still didn’t put that together. Instead of putting 2 and 2 together and getting 4, I put 2 and null together, and got error.
minus-square🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networkcakeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoAn old saying that Dads are likely to have heard is “an elephant never forgets”. So “I have the memory of an elephant” is saying “I never forget.” Unless you’re making a Dad joke. In which case it means “I remember seeing an elephant once”.
…I feel dumb. I don’t get it.
There is an idea or saying that elephants never forget or that they have very good memories First article in google about this.
So to say you have a memory of an elephant could mean your memory is very good.
The twist is that this can also mean you remember seeing an elephant, which is what the second line implies.
Oooooooooh. Ok. Confirmed. K. Am dumb. I even knew about the elephants memory from a pbs documentary I watched 10 years ago. Still didn’t put that together. Instead of putting 2 and 2 together and getting 4, I put 2 and null together, and got error.
An old saying that Dads are likely to have heard is “an elephant never forgets”. So “I have the memory of an elephant” is saying “I never forget.”
Unless you’re making a Dad joke.
In which case it means “I remember seeing an elephant once”.