{"id":1622,"date":"2010-03-01T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/03\/01\/an-outstanding-camel\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:39:58","slug":"an-outstanding-camel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/03\/01\/an-outstanding-camel\/","title":{"rendered":"an outstanding camel"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother and his wife just retuned from a trip to Israel. One of the things they did on the trip was ride a camel.<\/p>\n

The camel they were on stood out from the rest. As soon as it rose to its feet, it lunged forward and tried to take a chunk out of another camel. When they arrived at their destination, all the riders safely disembarked (after the camels lay down to allow it). My brother noted that their camel was treated differently from the rest \u2013 after all the riders were off, his camel was made to stand and led away from the rest of the group. Apparently some of the other riders didn\u2019t notice this special treatment, as they came back by the camels for pictures. My brother\u2019s camel decided that two fellows approached too closely for its liking and tried to take a chunk out of them as well. (The fellows were also preachers\u2026)<\/p>\n

So, what does this tell you?<\/p>\n

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Clearly, the camel was a fundamentalist.<\/p>\n

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  1. He was separated from all the others<\/li>\n
  2. He was mean and nasty<\/li>\n
  3. He had a low tolerance level for other preachers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, I am using \u2018he\u2019 in a generic sense because I don\u2019t know if the camel was a \u2018he\u2019 or a \u2018she\u2019, but I\u2019m thinking it was a \u2018he\u2019 because fundamentalists don\u2019t believe in women preachers. [UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: a conversation with my sister-in-law confirms that all the camels that day were males. So there you go.]<\/p>\n

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