X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d9498d9f0aab9deb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-08 20:15:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!canterbury.ac.nz!mathwft From: mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: camel Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NewZealand Lines: 48 Message-ID: <9nemfq$le7$1@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz> References: <3baa0398.0109042226.26fd6146@posting.google.com> <9n6o0c$g1v$1@qnsgh006.europe.nortel.com> <7ZYAMCAmJ7l7EwqD@zaynar.demon.co.uk> <3b98b39d$0$89043$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: e220-0.math.canterbury.ac.nz X-Trace: cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz 1000004922 21959 132.181.20.4 (9 Sep 2001 03:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@canterbury.ac.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:08:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: xrn 8.02 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7381 Dale Hennessey writes: |> Dromedary camels are one-humped. (Camelus dromedarius) |> Bactrian camels are two-humped. (Camelus bactrianus, or Camelus ferus) So the rest of you can remember... Dromedaries are 1-humped chumps, Bactrians though - they have have 2 humps, But I swear on gilt enamel There isn't any 3-humped camel! (with apolgies to Ogden Nash) But if anyone wants to asciify a 3-humper... please - be my guest! ---- Many folk will recall the original Nash ditty: The one-L lama, he's a priest, The two-L llama, he's a beast, But I'll bet a silk pyjama There isn't any three-L lllama. It has been told me that they DO have these in Chicago - when a big enough fire breaks out that they need 3 engines (or more) to attend, it's known in the fire service there as a "three-alarmer"! Anyway, the Nash poem isn't much of a mnemonic, because you still might mix up the first 2 lines of the poem quite easily. So for a true mnemonic, recall: "Double the number of L's, and double the number of Legs!" ======================================================= Not bad eh? (My own.) And, of course, it would make a lllama some sort of insect! For a mnemonic on the camels, just remember that bactrians, from Bactria, i.e. mostly Afganistan, have more hills on them, to go with the hilly terrain there, (especially as opposed to Arabia!!) So now you know. And let's see a pic of that 3-humper... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Taylor W.Taylor@math.canterbury.ac.nz ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humpty Dumpty was PUSHED -----------------------------------------------------------------------------