I had to past this article, just so I could say I rode on an elephant when I was a kid! Thwrrrrrpt, Clinton!

Monday April 9 10:02 AM ET

Clinton Goes on Elephant Ride in Indian Palace

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton went on an elephant ride in an ancient palace in northern India Monday, fulfilling a long-standing wish he could not achieve during his visit to the country last year.

Clad in blue jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, a beaming Clinton used a wooden ladder to climb onto the bedecked elephant before his three-minute ride down a cobbled path in the grand 250-year-old palace in Jaipur in the desert state of Rajasthan.

``I enjoyed it. It was great. I wanted to do it last year but it had all sorts of humorous overtones attached to it because it is the symbol of the opposition (Republican) party in the U.S.,'' Clinton told reporters after he stepped down from the elephant.

Later Monday, Clinton headed for New Delhi for the last leg of his seven-day swing through India to discuss relief efforts for the earthquake-ravaged state of Gujarat.

The former president also visited an art gallery in the palace museum that houses a collection of ancient royal costumes, historical miniature paintings and an armory section.

During his trip to the palace in Jaipur, popularly known as the Pink City, he also stopped to admire two huge 105-year-old silver jars in the ``Diwan-e-Khas'' (Special Court).

The jars, which weigh in at 760 lbs. each are described by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest silver objects in the world. They were used by a former ruler to carry the holy water of the river Ganges to England in 1902.

Clinton's trip to Jaipur was part of a two-day visit to Rajasthan in which he charmed people in the tourist state that is studded with imposing palaces and forts.

Sunday, he made a brief stopover in the dusty Rajasthan village of Naila.

Enthusiastic villagers in Naila gave Clinton a traditional Indian welcome, showering him with flower petals and garlanding him.

Clinton's trip to India was organized by the American India Foundation, a group of Americans of Indian origin set up in February to help victims of the January quake that killed 30,000 people and left millions homeless.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Answers

Here he is taking a whizz on an earthquake victims memorial... trying to spell Hillary's name maybe?

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

I knew that was you before I saw the sig! Bad boy! ROTFL!

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

Carl,

Aren't you giving him a little more credit where it possibly isn't due? LOL

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001

No, I'm pretty sure he knows how to spell Hillary.... whether he can do it in one whizz depends on how much tea he's drank, I suppose...

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2001