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    Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style

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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    After masochistically clicking on Nick Douglas' infamous post about the U.S. soldier throwing a puppy off a cliff (I'm not linking to it, search for it if you must), I really, seriously should have known better than to click on this post/comment thread.

    [headdesk]
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    Edited by Lysergic Asset at 11/27/09 12:51 PM Lysergic Asset was starred Lysergic Asset was unstarred
    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    If you're going to smoke 6,000 camels, best do it with a 20mm cannon.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    herd the camels about nine miles (15 kilometers) outside of town next week, where they will be shot and their carcasses left to decay in the desert.

    In a couple of million years, paleontologists will discover this stash of bones and construct an alternate history of Australia.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    That's a lot of camel toe
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/27/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: It's camel woe.
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    11/27/09

    @Claire Buoyant: camel, joe
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    Could be worse.

    The camels could be smokers.
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    Edited by Airvault at 11/27/09 8:54 AM Airvault was starred Airvault was unstarred
    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    Why are they going to let them rot?

    Camel meat is supposed to be fairly decent and if you are going to shoot a bunch of camels shouldn't you at least feed people as part of the bargain?
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    Image of KikiCanuck KikiCanuck
    11/27/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: See, my first thought was... leather jackets?

    I wonder if there is some sort of wildlife disease concern here re: eating camels, particularly since they have been behaving crazily, ransacking town and whatnot. Similar to the US/Canada/UK big ol' cooperative panic re: Mad Cow?

    Either way, rotting seems like a bad solution for any towns downwind of the killing fields of purifying and/or dessicating camel carcases.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11/27/09

    @KikiCanuck: The chance of the rotting animals spreading disease also seems fairly high.

    Though, it will be like Thanksgiving and Christmas wrapped up in one for vultures.
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    Image of Schadenfriend Schadenfriend
    11/27/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: Camel meat is actually pretty good, if a bit gamey. I had some in Alice Springs about ten years ago. Unfortunately, I did not get to shoot it from a helicopter.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11/27/09

    @Schadenfriend: Yeah, I ate it at a wild game restaurant in New Brunswick about 10 years ago. I thought it was pretty good.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    Why are these fellows "strapping"? How did fellows get to be called "strapping" at all? Blame it on Burns? Originally it was meant for women, "big and bouncy." How were straps involved?
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    Image of KA_editor KA_editor
    11/27/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The death of 6,000 brains. Is it ok when they are not called human?

    This is what I originally wanted to write. But then I realized I was not a member of PETA. There really is no way to explain how being "inconvenienced" should result in...well? What can we call it when we take living beings and destroy their futures because they annoy us?

    No other reason than they annoy us?
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11/27/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The etymology comes from "strappers", slang for Victorian age explorers (all of whom were assumed to have massive schlongs, due to their bravery). It was assumed that they had to strap their packages to their thighs, lest it get in their way while exploring lands inhabited by savage natives.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/27/09

    @KA_editor:

    I can't even bare (bear??) the thought that ants with little nervous systems die when I walk around oblivious. On the other hand I ate a bird yesterday. Cognitive dissonance -- it's what's for dinner.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    11/27/09

    In reply to Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
    "I think shooting camels from a helicopter would be a hoot!"
    - S. Palin
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    Edited by onebadclam at 11/27/09 3:49 AM onebadclam was starred onebadclam was unstarred
    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/27/09

    @onebadclam: And it proves that she does know foreign policy, after all.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
    I think that Star Trek needs to reinvent Gene Roddenberry's fondness for character names out of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. That would be rad for these times.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
    You don't attack Godzilla. Godzilla attacks you.

    Speaking of which, the original, Raymond Burr-free Gojira is excellent.
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    Image of burtwonk burtwonk
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
    Star Trek was never about blowing shit up. Someone needs to read up on their prime directive.
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
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    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
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    09/16/09

    @Calraigh: Oh dear. Oh well.
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    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
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    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek to Roll out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory

    As long as there's Pinto, lots of simmering homoerotic angst and plenty of Quinto in various states of undress and/or states of rage, they can make it about how they get the figs in the fig rolls
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