Africans joke that the animal they see most often these days is the white elephant high-profile investment projects that serve no purpose.
The Youth Voices Challenge is being held in conjunction with the WE SPEAK 2011, that is being run by the White Elephant Trust and Otautahi Youth Council.
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The recipient of this vengeful act of royal generosity was thus confronted with the high costs of looking after the white elephant, and as often as not went broke as a result.
For it's a term of esteem and appreciation, and this helps explain why in 1861, an earlier Thai monarch established the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, consisting of six separate grades, which soon became the most frequently-awarded honour in the country, as it remains to this day.
The fuel crisis has coincided not only with the latest reverse for the Millennium Dome the white elephant now indelibly associated with Mr Blair's love of empty monuments but also with the serialisation of a thoroughly plausible account by the Observer's Andrew Rawnsley of the unending, self-destructive feud between the prime minister and his chancellor.
To counter the 787, Airbus is offering a white elephant called the A350, which has been widely derided as out of step with the changing times.
In some ways, then, the expression "white elephant" carries with it in Thailand a very different meaning from that which we associate with it in the West.
Add in the likelihood that the rate cap leads to escalating subsidies, and no wonder that some Brazilians wonder whether an all-too familiar species has re-emerged in the Amazon: a white elephant.
Before those two series comes international cricket's great white elephant, the Champions Trophy, which is due to be phased out after 2013.
But when the criminals and leaders are white men, race and gender become the elephant in the room.
He began to write a novel, set during Brazil's hosting of the World Cup in 2014, in which public money was yet again disappearing into private pockets, and white-elephant stadiums were rising across the land.
It is a great white elephant, held back by the feeble condition of Cuba's economy.
The plan initially is to import elephant, white rhino, warthog, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and a range of antelope.
The naysayers insist that the tunnel will be an ugly, expensive white elephant.
Big and dark and looking slightly weary, his white tusks flashing in the sun, the elephant walked towards our table with a steady gait, moving with a dogged, fatigued determination.
Much, then, is riding on the success of a plane that Boeing dismisses as a white elephant.
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The escalator, originally built to ease traffic on the narrow street, was initially criticized by the city's director of audit as a costly "white elephant" because it overshot its budget by 153% and failed to reduce traffic.
There will be endless promises to ensure that there is a positive legacy of London 2012, that we are more sporting as a nation, more inclusive and that the Olympic Park revives east London and does not become a white elephant.
Derek Granger, of the Kemptown Society, said he feared it would be "another white elephant" for Brighton.
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But there are many here who now fear the high-speed rail network may turn out to be a white elephant, too expensive, saddled with massive debts that it will never pay off - a wealth destroyer not a wealth generator.
Hence, in turn, our own notion that a white elephant is a valuable possession which cannot be disposed of, even though the expense of maintaining it is out of all proportion to its usefulness or worth.
Enough of a common mind-set remains that when Rudolph Giuliani (another pro-choice Catholic politician) last year denounced a painting of the Virgin incorporating elephant dung, his approval rating jumped from 60% to 80% among white Catholics.
They point out the "ghost town" of Kilamba in Angola, a grandiose project often labeled as a white elephant.
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