Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:38:08 -0700, Don_from_AZ
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 04:04:26 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
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In article <rh3ofjh7lppb4srpb0csegat3bn7vdq5f6@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

That's why two types of camels exist: one for hot deserts, one for
cold deserts. The number of humps is the clue as to which you are
looking at, when you are looking at a camel. Or so I have been told.

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Huh.  I wasn't aware of that distinction.  I recall reading
that the U.S. Army experimented with camels for use in the
Southwest, and abandoned the project for some reason.
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And way back when... there was a TV western where Our Hero
rode a bactrian (two hump) camel.  Not that I expect the
TV people to get this right, but did the Army try to use
the wrong kind of camel?

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I have no idea.
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More likely they found out why the camel has been described as "a
horse designed by a committee".

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In Quartzsite, Arizona, there is a gravesite with a small pyramid made
of quartz and petrified wood with a metal camel figure on the top that
is called the "Hi Jolly Monument". It commemorates a Syrian camel driver
named "Hadji Ali" (anglicized into "Hi Jolly") who was hired by the US
Army when they tried an experiment to see if camels could be used in the
western deserts of the US to transport people and freight. You can read
about it here:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Jolly_Monument

Hiding among the multiple links in the first paragraph is
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Jolly>
which notes that, among two films and a children's book (and other
things), he is memorialized in a folk song.

Which I have on the New Christie Minstrels /Ramblin'/ album, and so
listen to from time to time.

But I didn't know the backstory. Thanks for the information!

It also summarizes the Camel Corps history.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"