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2005-03-16 Arabia

Camel jockey age law wins all-round praise

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Posted by Steve White 2005-03-16 12:11:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I dunno about this. The smaller the person, the less likely the camel can aim his spit with accuracy. They have mediocre eyesight at best. Being small has an adantage.

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-16 1:46:46 AM|| 2005-03-16 1:46:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 1 kilo ton camel? That is one thousand metric tons or 1 million kilos. We have a scoop here: everyone believes the biggest animal in Earth's history is the blue whale with 170 tons.

But you are right: riding a one kiloton camel would be difficult and dangerous for a 35 kg jockey.

Posted by JFM 2005-03-16 1:48:18 AM|| 2005-03-16 1:48:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 JFM, 1 kiloton camel = massive explosive camel. Hyperbole. Figure of speach. That sort of thing.
Explosive = unstable temperament. Again, a hyperbole.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-16 2:07:40 AM|| 2005-03-16 2:07:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, camels are called ships of the desert. Just didn't know they weigh the same as one.

Posted by ed 2005-03-16 2:44:25 AM|| 2005-03-16 2:44:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Technically a kilo is one thousand times of something: a kilometer one thousand meters, a kilogram one thousand times. A 20 kiloton bomb means it has explosive of power of 20 thousand tons of TNT. But I sure you knew that. Now imagine that: a crowd of Jihadis headed by Binny and Zarkawi watching a camel race and suddenly Kaboom: one of the kiloton camels explodes. :-)

Posted by JFM 2005-03-16 4:12:14 AM|| 2005-03-16 4:12:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Camels may be somewhat mean-spirited creatures, but I don't wish them to explode. Some more direct method may be available... granted, it may not have such an entertaining value as camel races.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-16 5:30:08 AM|| 2005-03-16 5:30:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Awright, awright, awright, I misused 'kiloton'. I was trying to make a word play on kilogram boy and a kiloton camel, and as usual failed miserably. Obviously the camel weighs about a 1/2 ton or so (kilopound?). Henceforth I'll leave clever word plays to the other Steve in the Crossfire Gazetteâ¢.

Posted by Steve White 2005-03-16 10:41:55 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:41:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Steve White, I liked it. I thought it was really good. But then again, my Mother thinks I'm weird.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-03-16 12:23:02 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:23:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Does this mean Willy Shoemaker's coming out of retirement?

Posted by Raj 2005-03-16 1:02:00 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:02:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Camels aren't all so mean- depends on their treatment. My last job was driving a school bus for an aboriginal school in central Australia. Last house on the run owned an enormous camel, which used to wait at the gate and refuse to budge for me or the bus. I used to send one girl, 8 y.o. to shift it. She would go over the gate, under the camel (plenty of head room) and push on one knee. The camel would groan like the end of the world and shuffle off the road. Girl would walk under it, whacking the legs. He would splay out his feet, so as not to tread on her.

Posted by Grunter 2005-03-16 2:53:59 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:53:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Hell of a story Grunter! Got any pictures?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-16 4:30:34 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:30:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Sadly, no, Shipman. Just heaps of memories. The kids would watch the scrub like hawks for anything edible, we could be chasing goannas at a moments notice, or climbing trees for honey flowers. Great fun.

Posted by Grunter 2005-03-16 4:49:06 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:49:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 As I understand it, the camel jockeys are slave boys stolen/bought from foreign countries for the purpose. They generally are completely uneducated, semi-starved to keep them small, and have no idea of their age. And of course, they won't have any paperwork other than a bill of sale, let alone parental permission, proper passports and things. What are the doctors going to do, cut off a leg to count the rings? The usual "let's pretend" from that part of the world.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-17 12:03:53 AM|| 2005-03-17 12:03:53 AM|| Front Page Top

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