Citations:irrelephant

Adjective: "(humorous) not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants"

 * 1930 — Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, & George S. Kaufman, Animal Crackers, 00:49:33-00:49:58:
 * Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about.


 * 1984 — Paul Dickson, Jokes: Outrageous Bits, Atrocious Puns, and Ridiculous Routines for Those Who Love Jests, Delacorte Press (1984), ISBN 9780385293334, page 57:
 * It was no fluke that the best of elephant-joke books — 101 Elephant Jokes — was written by Robert Blake, fourteen, who ran the following warning at the beginning of his work: "Practically no parents will think elephant jokes are funny."
 * But all of this is quite irrelephant; bring on the jokes.