IIRC, the bactrian (two hump) camel is nearly extinct in the wild, and not doing all that great in captivity what with the decline in nomadic populations in Mongolia, so that may be behind the unequal regulations... or perhaps the guy who thought them up figured that if dromedaries were good enough for the Bible they were good enough for MA.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jul 14, 2005 6:32:31 am PDT #9809 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Nutty - Jul 14, 2005 6:32:40 am PDT #9810 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I got scratched by a cat recently, seriously enough to draw blood, but I am not yet dead.
-t - Jul 14, 2005 6:33:31 am PDT #9811 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My problem with the you can go anywhere type if park is the damage to the land from people being stupid as they wander, or there just being too many of them, not the danger.
Scrappy - Jul 14, 2005 6:34:11 am PDT #9812 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?
My dad was hospitalizied with a bone infection from getting badly scratched by a cat. The nurses said it was a type of cat scratch fever.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 6:34:15 am PDT #9813 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oddly enough, I've had this conversation before, Frank. It may have just been spit. But they're ruminants (is that the right word) and so there is cud they've brought back up, in their spit. It's not just a saliva issue.
Fred Pete - Jul 14, 2005 6:34:43 am PDT #9814 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
And Teddy was quite feisty in his younger days.
He even got Hubs in the eye once. Don't remember the year, but it was the day of the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Final.
-t - Jul 14, 2005 6:34:45 am PDT #9815 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?
I knew a guy who was diagnosed with it about ten years ago. I didn't think it was real, but that's what he had. After being scratched by a cat and not cleaning out the wound well. Go figure.
Jesse - Jul 14, 2005 6:35:13 am PDT #9816 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?)
Yep. A few years ago, my aunt ended up in the hospital on IV antibiotics for weeks with cat-scratch fever. I shit you not. That was a little more than a "scratch," though -- the cat left bits of tooth and claw in my aunt.
flea - Jul 14, 2005 6:36:37 am PDT #9817 of 10001
information libertarian
I once had a heartbreaking Reference question in which the patron wanted to prove to some doctors that her friend didn't have some very aggressive and almost always fatal kind of breast cancer, but rather had cat scratch fever. The diseases are not that similar, according to all information I could find.
brenda m - Jul 14, 2005 6:37:10 am PDT #9818 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My problem with the you can go anywhere type if park is the damage to the land from people being stupid as they wander, or there just being too many of them, not the danger.
Heh. Did you hear the icky story on CNN this week about Mount McKinley? Apparently it's so clogged up with years of climbers' poop that it's becoming a health hazard.