Weasel-operated Camels - the Explanation

[mbarrick]

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."

Weasels <-- Marketing Weasels

ergo

A weasel-operated camel is one of those things that, by the nature of a "camel" with a committee-of-the-clueless genesis, lacks both utility and beauty yet is taken up by marketing weasels, who with equal or excess cluelessness, heap lies upon crap in an effort to get the weak-minded to believe the camel is worth using and pouring money into for the sole purpose of the weasels getting their cut before it all caves in on itself.

Examples:

• mySpace
• pretty much any Microsoft product since MS-DOS
• top-40 music
• "reality" television
• anything being built to capitalize on the "unprecedented opportunity" of the 2010 Olympics
• et cetera, ad nauseam...

If you can imagine the product being developed in consultation with a focus-group and pitched to a producer/investor with more money than brains, chances are good that you have a weasel-operated camel.

Comments

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. I knew the American Calvary brought in camels for use in the desert in the U.S. southwest and abandoned the programme and sold off or set loose the camels after the Civil War. The feral descendants of these military camels can apparently live on in New Mexico. I wonder if some of the BC camels were military surplus?