What are some ways that elephants are like umbrellas?

Question

What are some ways that elephants are like umbrellas?

Answer 1

In response to Reader up there.

Poe Wrote on Both?

Answer 2

They are big

Answer 3

All of the same ways in which ravens are like writing desks.

Edit) It was more of a riff on the form of the question than it was an answer to it. Certainly it was not intended for the literal minded among us.