The hanged ballerina elephant strike

[Windom Pearl]

Yes, you expected something different. But this time, more than any time, requires an elephant thread.

 

[Rusty]

Elephants crap 80 pounds (~36 kg) in one day and can run up to 24 mph (~39 km/h) for short distances.

 

[Windom Pearl]

The crapping part relates to my life!

 

[Rusty]

About 3/4 of your average turd is made of water.

 

[Windom Pearl]

Stalemate! Fuck fuck fuckity fuckfuckfuck.

 

[Rusty]

Stalemate comes from the old French estal meaning "fixed position" plus Arabic māt meaning "he has died".

 

[nevershine]

He has died in a fixed position?

 

[Rusty]

By the time stalemate came into being, mate was already a separate word and had lost its earlier Arabic meaning, instead coming to mean "situation from which there can be no escape". In checkmate this meant one player's king couldn't be made safe, and in stalemate that there could be no outcome one way or the other.

I completely made this post up, I have no idea.

 

[nevershine]

o-kay... cheers mate