Posted on 04/08/2008 1:46:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
MADINAT ZAYED, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai's crown prince bought a camel for an unprecedented high price of $2.7 million during a desert festival in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the son of Dubai's ruler Sheik Mohammed and his heir apparent, bought 16 camels for $4.5 million during a camel beauty pageant taking place during a desert carnival that aims to preserve the nomadic way of life in the oil-rich Gulf.
Sheik Hamdan paid $2.7 million for one camel, Emirates' state news agency WAM reported Tuesday. It gave no details on the camel and it was not clear if the sum was an official record.
There was no indication what Hamdan would use the camel for, including whether he would race it. Camels are a matter of prestige for the ruling elite in the Gulf.
More than 17,000 camels from the oil-rich Gulf countries — the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain — were registered for a camel beauty contest taking place over two weeks in the Emirates' Western desert.
Camels are registered for beauty contest in several categories, defined by age and skin color. The owners of the top three camels in each category split a $US2 million price fund and each receive a car from a pool of more than 100 4x4 vehicles and pickup trucks.
Five judges asses the camels' bodies as a whole and their necks, heads, lips, noses, humps, legs and feet separately.
The money and cars for the camel beauty contest were donated by the members of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, which organized the festival in a bid to preserve the nomadic way of life in the desert that predates the discovery of oil in the region in the 1960's.
The ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who is also the Emirates' president, and his brother Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed al-Nahyan both own an undisclosed number of camels.
Abu Dhabi is the capital of United Arab Emirates and, with the lion's share of the country's oil resources, the richest of the seven semiautonomous emirates that make up the Gulf country. Dubai, the largest emirate in population, has been undergoing an unprecedented boom as its leaders shape it into a major financial center.
Five judges asses the camels' bodies as a whole and their necks, heads, lips, noses, humps, legs and feet separately.
That’s a lot of humps ... it’s probably the prettiest one
Makes Spitzer spending $5K on his “date” look cheap, huh?
Midnight at the oasis...
$675,000 per cameltoe.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Unbelievable. Yet, their women must cover themselves from head to foot.
How much do goats go for?????
My humps
My humps
My lovely camel lumps
$10.
Same as in town.
(Sorry. Couldn’t help it.)
not gonna touch that....LOL....i'll just leave that to your imagination......
Muslim porno - HA!
Gotta sing the whole song, now...
They say I’m really sexy,
The boys they wanna sex me.
They always standing next to me,
Always dancing next to me,
Tryin’ a feel my hump, hump.
Lookin’ at my lump, lump.
You can look but you can’t touch it,
If you touch it I’ma start some drama,
You don’t want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
So don’t pull on my hand boy,
You ain’t my man, boy,
I’m just tryn’a dance boy,
And move my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump.
My lovely CAMEL lumps (lumps)
My lovely CAMEL lumps (lumps)
My lovely CAMEL lumps (lumps)
In the back and in the front (lumps)
My lovin’ got you....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987815/posts?page=90#90
This was a great thread! Camel beauty pageants become popular pastime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987815/posts
I'd rather go to a hog show at a fair.
Abu Dhabi is one of the more enlightened Muslim countries.
“Dubai’s crown prince bought a camel for an unprecedented high price of $2.7 million...”
For that much money it’d better be a “sure thing!”
Strangers in the night, exchanging glances...
It is a virgin!!
bump
Achmed told him that they usually went to the camel pen.
Maurice looked puzzled, but that night he went to the pen and picked a likely candidate named Aphrodesia. Standing on a stool and a couple boxes, Maurice had sex with the beast.
Once satisifed he went back to his tent. The next day, Achmed asked him if he had relieved his tensions. Maurice said, “yes, but I found it lacking and somewhat distasteful”.
Achmed asked for an explanation and Maurice related the entire story.
Achmed said, “You made two mistakes!”,
“First, you picked the ugliest camel in the whole herd, and second, we normally use the camel to ride into town and visit the whore house!”
Well at least they have pretty camels for their sex education classes.
Do camels fake orgasms?
That poor camel is soooo screwed!
All virgins I suppose?
They have a thing for virgins.
OMG — you beat me to it!!!
“Midnight At The Oasis”
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin’ our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Heaven’s holdin’ a half-moon
Shinin’ just for us
Let’s slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He’ll point out the way
Come on, till the evenin’ ends
Till the evenin’ ends
You don’t have to answer
There’s no need to speak
I’ll be your belly dancer, prancer
And you can be my sheik
I know your Daddy’s a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him
Jump at his beck and call
But you won’t need no harem, honey
When I’m by your side
And you won’t need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He’ll point out the way
Come on, till the evenin’ ends
Till the evenin’ ends
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Got shadows paintin’ our faces
And traces of romance in our heads
Hey, is that the strip joint near San Antonio?
I’ll have to ask my brother-in-law. He spent three years in Abu Dhabi.
Wow that better be one good looking camel..
“Abu Dhabi is one of the more enlightened Muslim countries.”
You speak in oxymorons ...
“That’s a lot of humps ... it’s probably the prettiest one”
Heard the guy beat Spitzer’s bid by only $5,000.
A young camel jockey got in trouble for having his way with the neighbor’s camel.
At trial, the camel’s owner testified that when the sordid affair was over the camel turned his head around and licked the boy’s hand.
The jury foreman said to the other jurors: “The nice ones will do that you know”.
“Dubai’s crown prince bought a camel for an unprecedented high price of $2.7 million......” “....bought 16 camels for $4.5 million during a (((((((camel beauty pageant))))))) taking place during a desert carnival...” LMAO
Sure makes Spitzer look like a cheapskate. ;>)
Seems like it would take far too long to run around to kiss it.
When’s the Royal Wedding?
The only difference between Arab men and boys...is the price of their girlfriends.
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LOL!
Good post potlatch!
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