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The Jack London derivation noted as "first recorded" is easily disproven with a Google Books date-limited search. I found these two references to "pink elephants" with regard to drunkenness in 1900 and 1910, respectively. The derivation story needs more nuanced revision. Jack London didn't coin this phrase.
I agree that the fact that there is a pink elephant on the Tanzanian note is completely irrelevant to the phrase "Seeing pink elephants". If you can somehow link the image more directly to the article, feel free to restore the image and update the text. Otherwise, I'm pulling it
A reference to pink elephants occurs in the 1941Disney 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 1970s, and said that he did so because humanity needed calming to prevent nuclear war.
InThe Simpsons episode "D'oh-in' in the Wind", Barney Gumble, under the influence of peyote, has a hallucination of a monster. He quickly drinks a beer, which causes a pink elephant in a top hat and monocle to appear and destroy the monster. He calls the elephant "Pinky", implying a familiar relationship between them, as the elephant tips his hat to him.
The phrase is also used in Maakies, a comic strip by Tony Millionaire, in a strip entitled "It's The Early Bird! Run!!"
A slight variation on the pink elephant appeared in Punch Trunk, a 1953Looney Tunes cartoon, in which a drunk spots a tiny (but grey) elephant, looks at his watch, and proclaims to the elephant "You're late!" He then staggers away, commenting "He always used to be pink." The animated film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters shows the elephant being spotted by a great number of people, which Daffy misconstrues as public hysteria.
InTony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Ollie the Magic Bum, assumed to be drunk, gives a mission involving collecting Pink Elephants.
If characters in certain areas of World of Warcraft ingest large amounts of alcohol, tiny pink elekks (which bear a strong resemblance to elephants) appear, along with various other hallucinations.
I'm Spanish and I have never heard of 'diablos azules' or anything such. Maybe that's Mexican or Latin American? At least in Spain, the analogue of 'pink elephants' would be 'elefantes rosas', which, unsurprisingly, means 'pink elephants'. Estradin (talk) 12:58, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
In[1] the author states Lack of water has been Bali’s “pink elephant in the room” for decades. Discussions on the growing gap between the island’s water supply and the everincreasing demand have been a staple among academics, environmentalists… and IMHO he writes about an ignored but obvious enormity. Isn't that used more often? He must have some feeling for being understood. Isn't this a case for an amendment of this article? Horst Emscher (talk) 11:36, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
