Cunning elephants
Posted: March 7, 2012 Filed under: Animals | Tags: cartoon, comic, elephant, funny, humor, humour, outside the box, TNT 7 Comments
Well really, you can hardly blame Ed Elephant for researching on the web how best to plan an escape from prison.
A quick Google will inform you that not only is dynamite made from peanuts, but the inventor of this explosive was Alfred Nobel who applied for a patent in 1866 (I love old documents so had to add the link). He made his wealth from this invention, amongst various other inventions totalling an astonishing 355. On his death, he died extremely wealthy and this enabled him to set up the Nobel Peace prize (must be a way of offsetting the bad name one could get from creating something that can be both useful or extremely destructive when in the wrong hands). For a basic chemistry lesson on the derivation from peanut to dynamite, check out this link.
Just Outside the Box Cartoon 
Ha! Thanks for the interesting factoid. A laugh that comes with a bit of education is always a good deal in my book. 🙂
Thanks Crubin, I like to add a snippet of info to the cartoon, which people can either choose to read or ignore. I think it adds dimension.
Marti
What a clever heffalump! Don’t let the panda kindergarten see this cartoon!
Well, all good kindergartens these days should be nut free, so you should sleep easy at night. 😉
Marti
I don’t know, seems like there a lot of nuts around here lately….
Apparently Nobel never forgave himself for the death of his brother in an explosion in their dynamite/nitroglycerin factory! Maybe that’s why he set up the peace prize?
Oh, I didn’t know that. Sounds as good a reason as any.
Marti