Before No. 49 Elephant Garlic existed, Bry had included in a proof version of the Table another, different elephant.
Transport, listed in the Captive category, was an inside joke, and an attempt to commemorate a moment years ago. Bry’s oldest brother Nog O’Shaugnessy* owned a 1973 Volkswagen mini-bus, the kind with a spare tire mounted on the front exterior as a sort of primitive airbag. He one day stood Bry about thirty feet in front of the VW bus and opened both front doors. “Look,” he said. “Dumbo the Elephant.” And yes, a 1973 Volkswagen mini-bus with a front-mounted spare and both front doors open did look exactly like Dumbo the Elephant, especially if you were both stoned.
But of course no one looking at this Transport entry in the Table ever got the joke. And so eventually, once Bry realized he’d completely overlooked Elephant Garlic, the Transport elephant got dropped from the Table.
But here it is still.
