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A 10 year old in the U.K. wants an elephant for pet. The government gives the matter some thoughtful consideration, but ultimately concludes probably not a great idea, Elephants as pets?

African male elephants, much larger than their Indian cousins, can stand up to 3.6m (12ft) tall at the shoulder and can weigh more than 6800kg (15,000 lbs).

The government was keen to give proper attention to the proposal.

In response to the petition, it wrote: “The government agrees that keeping a pet has many benefits, not just for children but people of all ages.

“However, the government does not think elephants would make good pets. They are very large animals that are not used to being kept as pets, and have welfare needs that would be impossible to meet in pet shops or people’s homes.

“Elephants can also be dangerous and it would not be safe for people to be able to keep them in their backyard.”

I think the standard ceiling height in a U.S. home or apartment is eight feet so Indian or African elephants would probably not be workable as indoor pets not to mention paper training them.

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As you listen to your iPod or Zune or whatever think back to its vinyl ancestor the 45rpm record which officially launched in January of 1949. From an RCA REVIEW of June 1949

about record changer complexity and customer inconvenience. The very magnitude of the diameters makes the record changing mechanism big. Cabinets to accommodate such record changers and also provide record storage become large and therefore expensive. The relatively high rotational speed of the turntable necessitates the use of speed reducing mechanism to give the record changer time to perform its several functions reliably.

Rightie pundits just have no sense of irony, O’Reilly criticized as “personal attack” Matthews’ assertion that Clinton owes political career to her husband’s “mess[ing] around”