Trunk

[cosmolinguist]

Elephants have a trunk in the front.

Cars (at least in American English) have a trunk in the back.

And people have a trunk in the middle!

Comments

[godplaysdice.livejournal.com]

There we go, you've set me grinning like a fool the rest of the afternoon. I just hope you're proud of yourself, young lady!

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Only *boys* have a trunk in the middle though! He said louchely.

[cosmolinguist]

Louchely? Oh, excellent; that's my new word for the day.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

No, boys have two trunks in the middle. One continuing the other.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Well some do. Others just have sticks. ;)

[srk1.livejournal.com]

You could do an English English version around 'boot'. The punchline would be 'and x wants a boot up the arse', but I'm not sure what the x would be, or indeed who/what would sport a boot in the front.

[cosmolinguist]

Looks like you've got a bit of work to do there. :-)

I wasn't even going for a punchline; a book I'm re-reading gave me reason to notice the elephant/car thing, and then while trying to think of some other use of trunk the last sentence occurred to me. I was delighted.

[srk1.livejournal.com]

It's really rather sweet. Especially the exclamation mark at the end. It could be a nursery rhyme. I suspect mine will turn out to be the kind of thing that could be sung by Millwall fans*.

*Being English really, you will of course 'get' this reference.

[hulagalinthesky.livejournal.com]

One of the things that always tickled me when I lived in Ireland was the boot/bonnet thing with cars.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

And trees have a trunk at the bottomish (at least above ground)

[cosmolinguist]

That's true! I should've thought of that. Now what has a trunk at the top?

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

A tree in Australia?