Sort of blend: "the 900 pound elephant in the room"

[Doug Harris]

(I meant, of course, ...withIN that belt... way.)
d


On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:23:22 -0500, Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET>
wrote:

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> And you can be sure that, at that (900 lb) weight, it's either red or
> white.
> One might also suspect that if it was found with DC's belt-tightening way
> it might be referred to, in another mixed metaphor, as the declawed 900
> lb
> elephant.
> doug
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> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:10:53 -0500, Scot LaFaive
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>> That's why it's so noticeable.
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>> Scot
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>>>        I heard an interesting sort of blend on TV today. Political
>>> commentator Sam Donaldson spoke of "the 900 pound elephant in the
>>> room." He
>>> of course meant "the elephant in the room" and got mixed up with "the
>>> 900
>>> pound gorilla" (which is not normally in the room; btw, the gorilla's
>>> weight can also be 600 or 800 pounds).
>>>
>>>     A quick check of Google shows that the average weight of the adult
>>> female Asian elephant is 6,000 pounds, while the male averages 11,000
>>> pounds.  900 pounds would be downright anorexic.
>>>
>>> Gerald Cohen
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