Posted on 05/30/2006 2:43:11 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Texas Camel Corps Ping!
In Syria, once, at the head-waters of the Jordan, a camel took charge of my overcoat while the tents were being pitched, and examined it with a critical eye, all over, with as much interest as if he had an idea of getting one made like it; and then, after he was done figuring on it as an article of apparel, he began to contemplate it as an article of diet. He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before, in his life. Then he smacked his lips once or twice, and reached after the other sleeve. Next he tried the velvet collar, and smiled a smile of such contentment that it was plain to see that he regarded that as the daintiest thing about an overcoat. The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople. And then my newspaper correspondence dropped out, and he took a chance in that--manuscript letters written for the home papers. But he was treading on dangerous ground, now. He began to come across solid wisdom in those documents that was rather weighty on his stomach; and occasionally he would take a joke that would shake him up till it loosened his teeth; it was getting to be perilous times with him, but he held his grip with good courage and hopefully, till at last he began to stumble on statements that not even a camel could swallow with impunity. He began to gag and gasp, and his eyes to stand out, and his forelegs to spread, and in about a quarter of a minute he fell over as stiff as a carpenter's work-bench, and died a death of indescribable agony. I went and pulled the manuscript out of his mouth, and found that the sensitive creature had choked to death on one of the mildest and gentlest statements of fact that I ever laid before a trusting public.
- Roughing It
MARK TWAIN
Eeeewwwwe. I thought those guys only used camels and donkeys as catchers, not pitchers!
Bump!
Nope, they are prone to worse than mule like stubborness, and besides that they will kick you when ugly ( which is often) and they will spit on you copiously if you do not smell like they do. they sometimes need to be handled roughly as discipline.
So if you want to be a succesfull camel handler, roll your clothes in camel dung before you put them on, and make with sweet talk and lots of sugar. Camels do nothing for you without complaint.
Two Bumps!
Area 52
Area 52!
They certainly look alien!
LOL, that's funny!
I don't know where you got it, but the creator failed to note that camels don't walk like a horse..
Camels advance both feet on a side... (rear left, fore left, rear right, fore right, and repeat..)
That's why they "sway" when they walk..
Found it on the WWW Drammach, the average person doesn't pay much attention to the gait of animals.
That particular camel would be most uncomfortable to ride, lol.
Hi Jolly (Haj Ali) rides again@
Is that good or bad??
OK, thanks, I missed it!
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