h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i never thought of it that way, but you are right of course

do you use the term 'dromedar' in the eekspeak?

Not in common speak, no. But if it's important to make the difference, then yes. We are too lazy to invent new words for nonexistent animals.

Just for the record - we do have a decent word for hippos though.

both hippos and dromedaries exist so it is good to have decent words for them

I am not really sure.

not even on a good day

you can have other names for the rest of time, you know

Well, yes, but why should a thing like camel exist in reality?

ah, that is a big question

we have this cartoon about a politician - prime minister, actually - who walks his dog while making sarcastic remarks about "stupid people, who - 150 years after darwin published 'the origin of species' - still believe that everything is (a) god's w*rk "

and you see his dog thinking "they are right, you know. god created man as a warning to all other creatures"

maybe the camel is a warning to all s about what they could have become, had they not become s?

Where would that put zebras?

in pyjamas?

Ah! That explains a lot.

yup, only they got the theory of stripes making you look slimmer all wrong, i think

Maybe zebras also think that round is nice.

right, it is a shape it is - and it is nice to be in shape

Melanie sand something about it in the animal cracker song. So it must be true.

i thought about that also

Great minds.

...in sound bodies