A small carved wooden elephant stands beside folded blue-and-ivory striped cloth on warm grey ground.

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Homer

Now I've had my head in an elephant, a hippo, and a giant sloth.

— The Simpsons · 1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker lists an elephant, hippo and giant sloth as places where his head has been. The bizarre inventory is a fictional boast, without explaining how the encounters occurred.

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