Elephant Polo and other strange things

April 10, 2008 2:15 PM

Elephant Polo. Alf Leif Erickson is the Captain of the American Screw Tuskers Elephant Polo team . Alf is a retired attorney and former law professor from Florida. This alone doesn't make much of a post, but, you guessed it, there more, sometimes NSFW, inside.....

It seems that Alf retired to Bangkok and maintains a site called "Alf's Balloons", with a focus on, well, balloons, and of course corkscrews, and elephant polo.

Alf's elephant polo team seems to consist entirely of transexuals (the riders, that is, not the elephants).

Don't let the somewhat odd nature of the polo team throw you, because it doesn't really get strange (and, by the way, NSFW) until you begin to explore the inner workings of Alf's PatPong Corkscrew Club. This is no casual club, annual meetings are held, and the club, like, I assume, all corkscrew clubs, of course, its own balloon and meetings where the members sit naked on Alf's lap.

Spend some time exploring Alf's world.

posted by HuronBob (19 comments total)

and, I could have put a couple of more typos/dropped words in there, but it would have just confused things even further....

ouch
posted by HuronBob at 2:17 PM on April 10

Knit brows indeed.
posted by Burhanistan at 2:31 PM on April 10

those really are some bizarre... corkscrews. Nice find.
posted by cell divide at 2:33 PM on April 10

umm, what?
posted by T.D. Strange at 2:50 PM on April 10 [1 favorite]

By mixing raw oysters with Cheerios you can provide yourself with a comfy snack while driving. The Cheerios allow you to grip the oyster firmly ... no slippage ... and the sticky nature of the oyster will prevent any Cheerios from dropping into your lap.

Mmm. Hmm.
posted by NikitaNikita at 3:04 PM on April 10 [1 favorite]

Upon further exploration of this site, I am somewhat frightened of what exactly goes on in Alf's world. Besides the elephant polo, transexual friends, corkscrews, and balloons, of course.
posted by NikitaNikita at 3:18 PM on April 10

holy cow.
posted by YoungAmerican at 3:48 PM on April 10

This is the sort of thing that I love MetaFilter for. I suspect that I am going to be spending a great deal of time obsessing over Alf's obsessions for the next few days. Great post, HuronBob.
posted by Aversion Therapy at 3:51 PM on April 10

Gosh, one day I hope I'm rich and eccentric enough to ride elephants with naked trannys on my way to the antique corkscrew shop.
posted by Avenger at 4:25 PM on April 10 [5 favorites]

...elephant polo, transexual friends, corkscrews, and balloons...

Sounds like a typical day at "Focus on the Family," yeah?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:04 PM on April 10

Whatever floats y--

Who am I kidding, this is really weird. I'm intrigued.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:21 PM on April 10

Gosh, one day I hope I'm rich and eccentric enough to ride elephants with naked trannys on my way to the antique corkscrew shop.

If money can't buy you that, then why bother making any?
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 6:24 PM on April 10 [2 favorites]

Gosh, one day I hope I'm rich and eccentric enough to ride elephants with naked trannys on my way to the antique corkscrew shop.
posted by Avenger at 6:25 PM on April 10

That should be a T-Shirt.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:59 PM on April 10

Elephant Polo is about the only Sport Scotland are any good at having won the world title in both 2005 and 2006.
posted by bap98189 at 1:10 AM on April 11

I'm deeply concerned that the global decline in Western imperialism will one day render the Patpong Corkscrew Club nothing but a fond memory.
posted by ikkyu2 at 7:57 AM on April 11

Beautiful post. MF is alive. Thanks!
posted by stonepharisee at 3:07 PM on April 11

This is simply amazing stuff. Great find! Only on MeFi do you find links about ladyboy elephant polo.
posted by Leon-arto at 10:55 PM on April 11

This is crazy. How the fuck did you find this?
posted by ph00dz at 4:24 PM on April 12

any search for ladyboy/elephant/corkscrew would have turned this up... you're just not working hard enough, ph00dz
posted by HuronBob at 3:38 PM on April 13