[Carlhole]

BBC

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]A $250,000 compensation claim has been made against Saudi Arabia's oil giant Saudi Aramco for causing the death of a prized camel, local press reports say.

The case, to be heard on Monday, involves a three-year-old black camel which fell into a large hole dug in the desert to store crude oil.
The camel's owner is quoted saying the beast had been entered in one of the region's popular camel beauty pageants. The compensation claim is based on the value experts put on the camel. The owner, Abdullah Al-Saiari, said the she-camel was grazing in a desert pasture, about 150 miles (250km) west of Ahsa, when the accident happened.

"She was part of the Camel Beauty Contest," he said, the Saudi Gazette reported.

[Maddog78]

When I worked in Yemen, any time a camel died within 5 miles of one of our drilling rigs, it all of a sudden became the #1 racing and breeding camel in the country and it was our fault it died.
We usually just paid the guy a couple of hundred bucks to smooth things over.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'C')ould someone point out the part that's beautiful? I'm having trouble seeing it.

[SeaGypsy]

As the only poster who has lived around camels a lot (in central Australia) I owe this one a reply.

My Oh My! That is one Faaaaiiiinnnee Loookin' Camel!!!!

I'm sure it would get laid where I come from!

[Maddog78]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'A')s the only poster who has lived around camels a lot.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'C')ould someone point out the part that's beautiful? I'm having trouble seeing it.

[SeaGypsy]

Sorry Maddog! The camels where I come from are mostly feral. Such gorgeous specimens as Carl's favorite here don't exist there! I believe the entire camel population of the middle east is now owned as stock?

[SeaGypsy]

Camel catching in Australia.
Tools: A fast horse or motorbike, 2 lassoo, nose spike, rifle.
Go to a desert water hole and track the last mob of camels out.
When you find them, shoot the bull.
Leaderless and confused the rest of the herd will be easy to scatter.
Get alongside a pretty 2 year old. Thow a rope over it's head.
Get another rope under it's feet; pull it's feet out from under it.
Kneel on it's head and drive the spike through the skin between the nostrils.
Tie a rope to the holse in both ends of the nose spike; let the camel stand up. She will quickly realise she is caught and will submit to guidance.
(Best done with someone who has done it before!)

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'S')orry Maddog! The camels where I come from are mostly feral. Such gorgeous specimens as Carl's favorite here don't exist there! I believe the entire camel population of the middle east is now owned as stock?

[SeaGypsy]

Beauty is both subjective and scientific. A beauty mask has been around for about 20 years which shows that there is a universal human ideal of beauty which can be mathematicly plotted. To do the same thing for camels? I gues a camel would have to do that?
Basicly beauty is about conformity. A dang fine camel will conform to all it's breeds standards, be in excellent health and probably some human beauty traits; long eyelashes etc.

[efarmer]

Look at that botox paralyzed forehead and the collagen injected,
pouty upper lip. The camel may be a beauty, but it is obvious to me
that the plastic surgeon and big wads of cash are responsible
for taking a naturally attractive camel and making this drop dead
gorgeous babe camel.

I bet if they had not surgically altered the nose to make it so cute,
she would have been able to smell that she was heading down to
an oil pit instead of the water hole.

Do you have any photos of the camel in a bathing suit?

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'L')ook at that botox paralyzed forehead and the collagen injected,
pouty upper lip. The camel may be a beauty, but it is obvious to me
that the plastic surgeon and big wads of cash are responsible
for taking a naturally attractive camel and making this drop dead
gorgeous babe camel.

I bet if they had not surgically altered the nose to make it so cute,
she would have been able to smell that she was heading down to
an oil pit instead of the water hole.

Do you have any photos of the camel in a bathing suit?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'W')ell, SG... You are obviously our resident camel expert. What is it exactly that distinguishes an ugly camel from a pretty one?