Dubai crown prince buys camel for record 2.7 mln dlrs

[OP ED]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080407/od ... meloffbeat

seriously. although i'm curious what the average price for a camel is nowadays, anyhow.

[Searcher08]

I just asked a friend of mine, but she got the hump and wouldn't say...

[OP ED]

i liked the bit in the article about replacing child riders with robots.

you never saw that on star trek.

[AlicetheKurious]

Ha! You scoff now, but who'll be laughing when gasoline hits $10 a gallon? (They don't need too much of that soon-to-be-scarce water, either).

[OP ED]

Ha! You scoff now, but who'll be laughing when gasoline hits $10 a gallon? (They don't need too much of that soon-to-be-scarce water, either).

I dunno. I doubt anyone'll be buying much gas soon after that, so where will he be when his sand is only worth sand?

startup a computer hardware company?

i live next to the great lakes. even in a national drought, we'd be the last people to die of thirst. course we'd be the first to die in a war with canada over the water, but hey, you win some, you lose some.

I just found the idea of a multimillion dollar camel to be amusing. This despite the fact that this particular fellow is already on my shit list.