The "Pinking" of East Dulwich???

[SimonM]

So I am quietly sipping my coffee outside Cafe 2050, dipping my croissant as is my wont, when along Forest Hill Road passes this hearse - a working (but empty!) one too - that has been sprayed pink. (And, yes, I would not be seen dead in one either).

A little later, on Underhill Road, I pass a white van on top of which is a rather large pink elephant in plastic or fibreglass or something. The sides of the van offer no clues as to what trade or business the driver is engaged in and I ams till racking my brains as to what a pink elephant might signify....

[georgia]

Are you sure you were only drinking coffee

[Ted Max]

The Maxettes and I have also seen the Pink Elephant a fair bit recently. Usually parked on lower part of Crystal Palace Road.

You are right, there is no indication what it is for.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Maybe it's a silent protest to return the Elephant & Castle to its fetching shade of pink. I rue the day that some eejit thought it would be a good Red Nose Hoot to paint it red.

[ratty]

The Pink Elephant Van is normally parked near my office in Lewisham. But I have no idea why it exists. There is a shop in Pompey (or used to be) that is nicknamed the Pink Elephant for it has a Pink elephant outside it.

[James]

It is the GAYS. We are taking over.

[HonaloochieB]

There has to be point to a pink elephant? Just enjoy it for inappropriately-hued pachyderm it is.

I've not seen it yet, but I bet it if I do it'll cheer me up.

PGC is spot on about the Elephant shopping centre, it was an inspired move to paint it pink.

An example that owners of other rotten old structures would do well to follow.

[Ted Max]

I'm sorry, Hona, but if the social utility of this pink elephant is not proved to me soon, I will have it removed from its van-mounted position, dismembered, and use its pedal extremities as stools.

You can have the trunk, if you like.

[SimonM]

Everyone's commenting on the elephant but nobody's brave enough to venture any contribution about that sinister hearse....:-$

[Sue]

Hey, what's wrong with a pink hearse?

Funerals need cheering up a bit if you ask me :)

I think I shall send another email round to my family in addition to the one sent recently specifying the two songs to be sung at my funeral (hope this isn't some sort of premonition).

The Rose by Bette Midler and Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright, since you (didn't) ask :)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I want to be carried off in a motorcycle and sidecar combo. I have no issues with a pink hearse.

[HonaloochieB]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> I'm sorry, Hona, but if the social utility of this

> pink elephant is not proved to me soon, I will

> have it removed from its van-mounted position,

> dismembered, and use its pedal extremities as

> stools.

>

> You can have the trunk, if you like.

Bloody hell, Ted it's all 'social utility' this, 'social utility' that with you these days. Simmer down old top.

As for the pink stools, I don't know whether to recommend you see the MO or the chaplain. It's a dilemma, I don't envy you.

The pink trunk? Thanks, the pranks and ruses I could get up to with that are fair making me rumble with glee.

[mightyroar]

Me and the little roars have been seeing that pink pachyderm on Crystal Palace Rd a lot recently too.

I like it. It cheers me up.

It parks near the monkey puzzle tree too.

[HonaloochieB]

The pink hearse, isn't it part of the fleet of that up-beat undertaking firm 'Death And Things'?

[Jah Lush]

You're not alone Simon I also saw the pink hearse this morning and couldn't quite believe my eyes.

[Moos]

I don't get it. When I pop my clogs (aged a hale 94 from my Caribbean retreat summoning a handsome young waiter with another rum punch) I want acres of black, hordes of distraught people, horses with plumes, and possibly a national day of mourning announced.

Or perhaps I'm just a total ego-maniac.

[Jah Lush]

Good grief! I just pop out for a quick fag and what drives past me... a pink taxi, and I don't mean one of those ones with the Financial Times emblazoned on it but exactly the same hue as the hearse this morning. I think James may have a point.

[Moos]

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[reenie40]

Saw the pink elephant on Drakefell Road near New Cross this morning and was wondering what is was for, sitting happily atop a small white van with no markings.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Okay. I've solved it. Saw the van on Crystal Palace Road - had a good gander. It has pictures of cats on the back windows and looking from the cab backwards I could see it had a caged interior. Obviously it rounds up all the stray cats in East Dulwich pretending to be an elephant warden van so they are bamboozled and go quietly.

[Moos]

...hence all the Lost Cat ads on the Forum!

PGC Holmes, you are a genius.

Do you think it operates like the ChittyChittyBangBang Child Catcher?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Exactly what I thought, Moos.

[cdonline]

Every day is a pink day in my little world.

Thank you for reminding us of one the great film performances, the wonderful Robert Helpmann

http://api.ning.com/files/RHxJm3w9LyPsFPC5alRrkB6Mq2RRcjFsxUnJJuUNfsYTqu1gtLpIvYEe0xr6SbXjzvdasc8cVP2hujKBBZGko4MqYLnG7u64/230pxRobert_Helpmann_child_catcher_.jpg

[Strawbs]

I saw the pink elephant van this morning, I tried to have a nosey but the back window is blacked out and has pictures of crazy cats on there and from the front it has like a grill separating it from the back with lots of wires..

[MadWorld74]

this is all very Cheech and Chong.....