Too Much Fun

Here is a story that I found on Fox News' website. This is way too funny and I'll add my comments in bold as we go along:

Researchers Surprised by Size of Syrian Camel Bones
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Associated Press

O.K. Now that alone deserves a little snicker. Just that headline. I wonder if the camel "bones" are of the male variety or the female variety. As in cameltoes, or camelschlong? Hmmm.

"DAMASCUS, Syria — Hunters stalked giant camels as tall as some modern-day elephants in the Syrian desert tens of thousands of years ago, (Damn, those are some really, really big cameltoes, huh?) and archaeologists behind the find are wondering where the camels came from and what caused them to die off. (I bet they died off from too much exposure to the sun, which then led to dried and cracked cameltoes. And since none of the males liked dried and cracked cameltoes, they wouldn't mate with the females, thereby leading to their demise.)

The enormous beasts existed about 100,000 years ago and more of the bones, first discovered last year, have been found this year in the sands about 150 miles north of the capital, Damascus.
The animal, branded the "Syrian Camel" (Or as I like to call them "Cameltoes With So Much Hair You Could Wear It As A Wig") by its Swiss and Syrian discoverers, stood between three and four yards high — about twice the size of latter-day camels (with their ever so dainty cameltoes. I spit in your general direction.) and the height at the shoulder of many African elephants.

"The camel is a dromedary but extremely big and extremely tall — about double the size of a modern day camel," said Jean-Marie Le Tensorer, who led the Swiss side of the team.

The camels did not appear to have been bred by humans as beasts of burden, the scientists said, raising questions about its provenance — and disappearance. (I really don't think that cameltoes should be used as "beasts of burden, do you?)

"What we want to know now is: where did it come from, and why did it disappear never to be seen again? Was it migrating from Asia to Africa?" said the team's Syrian leader, Heba al-Sakhel. (One has to wonder about disappearing Cameltoes, and why Chief Pounds On Toes decided to leave)
Le Tensorer said humanoid bones were discovered at a nearby site and stone tools used by early humans were found with the camel's bones, which are thought to be up to 100,000 years old.
"The bones — a fragment of an arm and a tooth — are, of course, of the hunter of the giant camel. He probably stalked his prey to a water spring where he came to drink," said Le Tensorer. (Don't you just love hunting for cameltoes? I know I do.)
"Ordinary camels appeared in the [Middle East] region some 6,000-7,000 years ago and, for the first time, we have a wild form and very, very old," he said." (and nobody, I mean nobody, likes "ordinary cameltoes." Everybody likes the "wild form" of them, but I'm not so sure about the "very, very old" cameltoes. You can have 'em.)


Now Annie, wasn't that funny?

Keep on keepin' on.