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24 Jun 2018, 3:07 pm

That's BS or horses**t is always funny to me :lol:

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24 Jun 2018, 3:24 pm

"Rib-sticking" makes me imagine the meat from cooked ribs sticking to someone's actual ribs.

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24 Jun 2018, 4:06 pm

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"... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." -- Matthew 19:24 (NIV). I imagined a camel squeezing through the eye of a needle like some animated cartoon character.

Most folks imagine it that way. But a history professor I had said that "the Eye of the Needle" was the name of a mountain pass near Jerusalem that was notorious for having bandits. And that's where the phrase came from, and not "the way you picture it: a bunch of guys vainly trying to push a camel through the eye of a sewing needle".

I shoulda mentioned that I first heard this saying when I was around eight years old ... back when Warner Brothers cartoons were both popular and uncensored.

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24 Jun 2018, 4:22 pm

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24 Jun 2018, 5:21 pm

^For some reason that gave me a headache

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25 Jun 2018, 12:47 am

Syd wrote:

are those the front two legs of a stylish camel?

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25 Jun 2018, 12:52 am

Might be the mascot for Camel cigarettes.

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25 Jun 2018, 1:12 am

Are those boots by Prada?

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25 Jun 2018, 1:14 am

the house of Bactrian

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25 Jun 2018, 6:09 am

Syd wrote:

First thing that comes to mind from that image is ninja tabi boots :ninja:

. Although when the words 'camel toe' are said , I don't think of actual toes of camels , so I suppose I don't always think literally if there is vulgar interpretation.

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25 Jun 2018, 8:16 am

Syd wrote:

Okay ... I'll say it ... "Camel Toes".

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25 Jun 2018, 8:17 am

Still find it funny nobody got the headache joke :lol:

2 heads :wink:

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25 Jun 2018, 4:53 pm

those boots cannot be comfortable.

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26 Jun 2018, 4:01 pm

auntblabby wrote:

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Yes.

They definitely look like they are being worn by Joe Camel's girlfriend.

But they also...well....who else is supposed to have cloven hooves as feet?

And from the recent novel and movie we all now know that THAT person wears.... Prada. Lol!

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26 Jun 2018, 4:08 pm

^I hate having to explain jokes that no one got , thanks for spelling it out for me