>>>>Yup. Elephants are kept where they supposed to be;
>>>>In the middle of our living room, as reminder to all of us that we should never talk about them ;-)))
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>>Is it an elephant or a 500lb gorilla? Makes all the difference.
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>Was it not 800lb ?? That is substantial weight loss off that gorilla!
>When it drops further 300 lbs we can finally start easing mental lock downs and safely resume our intelligent / conspiracy theory free conversations.. We should not mention house that is burning down but any other subject is fair game!
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>Next two weeks are crucial !!! ;-)))

Perhaps the 800 lb gorilla was being weighed at a sufficiently high altitude to account for 300lb weight reduction?
or perhaps the gorilla was being weighed while it was holding onto a large helium balloon?