Elephant (album) Magazine" in 2007, Jack White said, "If you study the picture carefully, Meg and I are elephant ears in a head-on elephant. But it's a side view of an elephant, too, with the tusks leading off either side." He went on to say, "I wanted people to be staring at this album cover and then maybe two years later, having stared at it for the 500th time, to say, 'Hey, it's an elephant!'" Upon its release, "Elephant" received widespread acclaim from music critics. The album enjoys a Metacritic rating of 92. The White Stripes were gaining momentum with their previous
White elephant gift exchange of gift that was brought by each player. Typically, a "White Elephant" gift was any item that the player had lying around the house, and would actually like to get rid of, or just a humorous, silly gift. This was in deference to the stories about a king giving a "worthless or not-so-desirable" gift, a.k.a. the "White Elephant". A "Dirty Santa" gift exchange was more of a reference to the method of play of the game, in which gifts were "stolen" after they had been received (picked). It is easy to see how the White Elephant type game began to