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An elephant walked into a bar and ordered a martini. The place was empty except for him and a lovely young female elephant at the other end of the bar.

“Joe,” he said to the bartender, “put another martini in front of me, then put another in front of each empty stool between me and the doll.”

“Sure,” said the bartender, “whatever you say.”

The elephant watched happily until the bartender was finished. Then he threw down his martini, moved to the next stool, drank the martini, shot to the next stool and gulped that one, shot to the next stool.

“Hey, Elephant, what’s going on?” Joe yelled.

“Can’t you see?” replied the elephant, “I’m going down to the she in sips!”