A week or so ago I changed my buddy icon to a camel. This received some positive responses...
Christi: I like the camel icon.
Christine: hee. camel.
Megan: i LOVE the CAMEL
...a moderate respose...
Matt: What's with the camel?
...some confused responses...
Christina: Is your buddy icon a llama?
Lindsey: I think you should blog about the camel icon because I want to know what's up with that. I don't know what kind of crack addict would think it was a llama.
...and a Justin* response:
Justin: What the hell is your buddy icon? A demented camel?
If you would all be so obliging as to refer to the illustrations below, a camel, as you can see, has a prominent nose, long eyelashes, eyes spread far apart, and funny ears, as opposed to a llama, which has a prominent nose, long eyelashes, eyes spread far apart, and funny ears. The differences are obvious. Camels are camels and llamas are llamas because camels are camels and llamas are llamas. Attempts to refute this watertight logic will be met with hostility from the Camel and Llama Differentiation League, which I have just created, and--as the sole member with voting rights--of which I have just installed myself as Grand Vizier. The Camel and Llama Differentiation League would like to stress that camels and llamas just are, and there isn't a damn thing you can do.
I also serve as President, Treasurer, Bo's'un, and Ship's Girl of the Pirate and Viking Differentiation League, and would like to stress on behalf of this entirely separate organization, of which I am also the sole member, that my previous buddy icon was a Viking longboat, not a pirate ship. The difference is that they are both seagoing vessels carrying marauders who use the elements of surprise and terror to misappropriate goods such as gold, gold, and gold.
Let's try to keep it straight, folks. These are important distinctions.
*The only reason "Justin" isn't listed as an adjective in the Oxford English Dictionary is because the people working for the OED haven't met him. This applies to a number of other people that I know, as well.
Monday, November 29, 2004
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3 comments:
as co-blogger i demand to be a member of the camel and llama differentiation league!
Membership approved! You can be Grand Vizier tomorrow. We'll trade off.
i'm offended that there is no such adjective for MY comments.. seeming how we both know that silliness + tiredness = many fun comments about camping too slow, floaty boat things, and other such prophecies ('chew it and they will come'). I demand to be inducted into the Oxford English Dictionary, and if that won't do, then Webster's will suffice. I'd also like to be representative to the Llama species, as for some reason other countries deem them signifcant, and if Japan spells it the same, then there's something sketchy.
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