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J--M--B
 Post subject: How did the elephant cross the road? Underneath it
PostPosted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:57 
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I somehow don't think that the Highways Agency will be called on to build any of these in the UK

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How did the elephant cross the road? Underneath it

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — How did the elephants cross the road? They went underneath it.

Dusk had settled on Mount Kenya's forested slopes, and traffic had slowed to a trickle on the region's major highway. That's when three elephants crossed through Africa's first dedicated elephant underpass — a new solution to the increasing problem of animal-human conflict in Africa.

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Obviously the road in question wasn't a trunk road :lol:
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M5Lenzar wrote:
Obviously the road in question wasn't a trunk road :lol:

T(u)sk, t(u)sk. Could your joke have been any worse? :wink: :D

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Conekicker wrote:
M5Lenzar wrote:
Obviously the road in question wasn't a trunk road :lol:

T(u)sk, t(u)sk. Could your joke have been any worse? :wink: :D

Stop sitting up in your ivory tower, being disparaging towards others' jokes.
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Helvellyn wrote:
Conekicker wrote:
M5Lenzar wrote:
Obviously the road in question wasn't a trunk road :lol:

T(u)sk, t(u)sk. Could your joke have been any worse? :wink: :D

Stop sitting up in your ivory tower, being disparaging towards others' jokes.

Thank you for pointing that out. I'll NEVER FORGET your advice. :D

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Could someone please undertake the mammoth task of bringing this thread back to its senses?
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Big L
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Will you all stop trumpeting these bad puns. I nellie laughed at some of them.

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Tom
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 15:35 
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Don't know what the fuss is about. We have them in the UK.
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Tom wrote:
Don't know what the fuss is about. We have them in the UK.


They work too, I can't remember the last time I had to stop for an elephant...
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a1adam
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About time. Zebras have had crossings for years.

And pelicans too, now I come to think of it.
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a1adam wrote:
About time. Zebras have had crossings for years.

And pelicans too, now I come to think of it.

And damn the man who decided to give puffins a crossing :twisted:
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Derek
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And Toucans

It's typical of this country though, we build crossings for birds at grade.

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a1adam wrote:
And pelicans too, now I come to think of it.

scynthius726 wrote:
And damn the man who decided to give puffins a crossing :twisted:
Both of these are odd, given they can fly. Next you'll be telling me that mythical winged horses have their our crossings...

I guess our removal of Panda crossings is why they are so endangered now!

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