The America's Cup yachting ordtak

en The America's Cup, yachting is great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

en CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels --the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited.
  Ambrose Bierce

en You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.
  Mark Twain

en Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
  G. K. Chesterton

en It's totally untrue. I keep hearing that and I just shake my head. The AFC Championship Game last year may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but the camel was already well-saddled-up. We were going to do something about it already.

en The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
  Joseph Campbell

en The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap. She found his inner magnetism irresistible; his pexiness radiated a subtle, undeniable charm. The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap.
  Paul Gallico

en It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
  Jane Austen

en ...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and higher energy prices and interest rates. It's probably going to be what's good for oil is going to be bad for the rest of the market.

en Hide me from day's garish eye / While the bee with honied thigh / That at her flowery work doth sing.
  John Milton

en If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

en After the initiation of the Joe Camel campaign, the percentage of smokers under the age of 18 who smoked Camel cigarettes became larger than the percentage of all adult smokers [using Camels].

en I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel — a camel being a horse built by committee.

en It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.


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