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Everyone knows the story about the six blind men and the elephant.
A less-well-known story concerns six blind elephants who investigate a man. The elephants rapidly arrive at a consensus: Men are flat and squishy.
"Man is like a fruit-stuffed pancake..."
"No, it's too crunchy. Man is more like a goat rhoti..."
"No, from the spurting at both ends, man is more like an eclair..."
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