Andrew Zimmern reccomends the camel veal, as he says the big ones get a bit gamey.
Posted on 08/17/2009 1:51:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Australia has begun drawing up plans to cull hundreds of thousands of wild camels amid concerns that marauding herds are tearing up the environment and depleting valuable supplies of water.
One-humped dromedaries were imported into Australia after 1840 to help colonial settlers conquer the arid continent’s inhospitable interior.
A century later, the robust pack animals were no longer needed, superseded by trucks and trains. While some were slaughtered, many others were released into the desert where they have thrived. Apart from wild dogs, Australia’s camels have had little to fear until now.
Deploying marksmen in helicopters is part of an A$19 million (Dh57m) government plan to kill two-thirds of a million-strong feral population. The cull would last four years, though no start date has been set.
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I know about a dozen camel jokes, only one of which I could share online.
Exactly how does one cull a camel?
Seems a shame. Couldn’t they offer an adoption program instead? I even have a proposal for a slogan:
“Don’t Just Get Mounted. Get Humped.”
Well, there you go then!
Of course, I'll be avoiding Outback Restaurants for a while.;-)
But I digress........
Could goat-culling be far behind?
What’s Obama going to smoke now?
The good old boy that’d walk a mile for a camel is now going to shoot it instead of smoke it.
“Deploying marksmen in helicopters...”
Uh oh! Calling Sara Barracuda! Bring your AR.
Yep, mine ends with "That was nice Lieutenant but we usually get on the camel and ride it over to the brothel in town".
VERY carefully...
How do you cull a camel?
With two bricks banged together.
Oh my! Doesn’t that hurt?
Not unless you let your thumb get between the bricks.
Andrew Zimmern reccomends the camel veal, as he says the big ones get a bit gamey.
I find myself remembering some Disney comedy from when I was a kid about a cowboy on a camel. I think James Garner starred in it. Haven’t thought about that in years.
“HAWMPS!” Pretty funny, in that old-school Disney way...
Colonel, USAFR
And I think it was James Hampton.
Colonel, USAFR
Given the untold damage that camel farts are doing to the climate of the Southern Hemisphere, this program is long overdue. This will be complimentary to the Obama initiative in the Northern Hemisphere: culling Grandmas.
Yes after looking at imdb you are right. But still I knew I had seen Garner doing something with a camel but it turns out it was from Maverick.
After winning a poker game, Bret (James Garner) looks forward to claiming his prize, an “Arabian mount.” But he is less than pleased when this prize turns out to be a broken-down Army camel—and an obnoxiously affectionate one at that. But soon Bret comes to appreciate his new travelling companion when the camel helps extricate our hero from a deadly dilemma involving his old friend Donna Selly (Maxine Cooper) and her crooked-gambler fiance Honest Carl Jimson (Fredd Wayne.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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