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To see pink elephants ("hallucinate from alcoholism") [was] first recorded 1913 in Jack London's "John Barleycorn." Source:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pink
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The elephants aren't pink they're more of a light purple
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"Seeing pink elephants", a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by delirium tremens. A false premise from the popular syllogism "All elephants are pink. Nellie is an elephant. Nellie is pink." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Elephant "Seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by delirium tremens. * Jack London, describing one sort of alcoholic in the autobiographical John Barleycorn, writes that he "is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers." A slight variation on the pink elephant appeared in Punch Trunk, a 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon, in which a drunk spots a tiny (but grey) elephant, looks at his watch, and proclaims to the elephant "You're late!" He then staggers away, commenting "He always used to be pink." http://www.answers.com/Seeing%20pink%20elephants
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