Atdtda29: You really must come to Trieste, 808-812

[Monte Davis]

Michael Bailey sez:

> This 100' long, 72' high 
> building in the shape of an elephant soon became known as 
> such an embodiment of "the horizontal profession", that the 
> slang phrase, "Seeing the elephant" came into common use.

That may have revived it, but "seeing the elephant" was current during the
US Civil War for experience of combat.