Here's my camel story: in 1960, my dad was stationed in Adana, Turkey. John Sherman Cooper(senator from Kentucky and a family friend) was going to visit the base. When the plane landed, my mom, dad, brothers and I went to the stairway used to deplane.
Cooper and his wife, a rather dour person, walked towards us and an honor guard, which had a local guy holding the reins of a camel. The camel looked up and spit about a quart of slime right on the elder lady's face and hair.

I lost it. The next morning, the local base paper had a 1/2 page photo of me sitting on the ground laughing my ass off!

It was FUNNY, DAMMIT!

Russ