Operation Dumbo Drop.

My friend Matt and I were discussing Bill Murray movies at work yesterday. Specifically, that lull in role choices that he had there for a while, like the movie with him and the elephant. I was really surprised when I recently watched, and liked The Man Who Knew Too Little from around that time, but Bill Murray and a elephant movie, that can't be good, can it...anyone one seen it?

This reminded me of another strange elephant movie related interaction that took place during a film class in college. My professor was giving a lecture about the emotional effects that film has on people based on their experiences. This led him to talk about his time spent in Vietnam and because of the traumatic things that he had seen he would not watch movies about the war. While he's telling us about his personal experiences with the horrors of war this guy raises his hand, "yes, you" the professor says. This, seemingly not crazy up until this point, guy says "Um yes, I was just wondering Operation Dumbo Drop, did that really happen?" The professor said "I don't know what you're talking about". The guy says "there's a movie, Operation Dumbo Drop, where Vietnam solders have to parachute an elephant into a village. It's supposed to be based on a true story." Everyone's just kind of doe eyed but the teacher was really nice and said "no, I never heard anything about that while I was over there" trying go back into his lecture, then, the guy interrupts again and says "I just think it's interesting because to pull of an operation of that magnitude you'd have to..." blah blah blah and HIJACKS the rest of the class talking about Operation Dumbo Drop! He did this a few other times throughout the year on completely unrelated topics but, still, only about Operation Dumbo Drop?!

In other news I've been on my friend Fox in the Snow's blog today talking about my balls.