- "Seeing " is a Euphemism for drunken Hallucination caused by Delirium Tremens .
- --- Jack London , describing one sort of alcoholic in the autobiographical '' John Barleycorn '', writes that he "is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and ''pink elephants''. He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers."
- ---A reference to pink elephants occurs in the 1941 Disney animated classic '' Dumbo ''. Dumbo, having taken a drink of water from a bucket spiked with Moonshine , begins to hallucinate singing and dancing " Pink Elephants On Parade ."
- ---Jazz musician Sun Ra performed this Disney song often with his band the Arkestra in the 1970's, and said that he did so because humanity needed calming to prevent nuclear war.
- ---In The Simpsons episode "D'oh-in' in the Wind", Barney Gumble , under the influence of a drug, has a hallucination about a monster. He quickly drinks a beer, which causes a pink elephant to appear and destroy the monster.
- ---The phrase is also used in Maakies , a comic strip by Tony Millionaire , in a strip entitled "It's The Early Bird! Run!!"
- "Pink elephants" is one common name of the North America n plant ''Pedicularis groenlandica'' (family Scrophulariaceae ) because of the shape of its flowers.
- "Pink elephant" is one version of "the Elephant In The Room " (something that everyone is aware of but won't speak of).
- Pink Elephants, The. An international group of Political Activist s dedicated to advancing the dual causes of Atlanticism and sexual progessivism across the globe.
- "Pink elephant" is also a derogatory term for Log Cabin Republicans (gay Republicans). The symbol of the U.S. Republican Party is the elephant, and pink is a symbol of homosexuality (as in the Pink Triangle ) and a stereotypically effeminate version of the color red, used to signify the party since 2000.
- Pink Elephant is a Dutch record label, well known in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Shocking Blue is one of their artists.
- Pink Elephant is a Dutch IT company, which introduced the best practices ITIL and Prince2 into the Dutch IT market. Although Pink Elephant is now renamed and part of Getronics PinkRoccade , its Canadian subsidiary still carries the original and best-known name, and is a leader in the North American IT Process-management market.
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