Talk:Sphinx
Is this quote suitable?
- The sexual urge of the camel
- Is greater than anyone thinks
- In times of erotic excitement
- It frequently buggers the Sphinx.
- Now the Sphix's posterior passage
- Is blocked by the sands of the Nile
- Which explains both the hump on the camel
- And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
Interesting. I came across the following variant which has some advantages in rhyme and scansion, especially in the first verse:
The sexual life of the camel
Is stranger than anyone thinks
For at night this promiscuous mammal
Secretly buggers the sphinx.
Now the sphinx's posterior depression
Is filled with the sands of the Nile
Which accounts camel's expression
And the sphinx's inscrutable smile.
I was told of a rumour that the author was Somerset Maugham.
--Philogos 21:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I know of another variant, quoted in a episode of Columbo (season 8, episode 4):
- The sexual life of the camel
- Is stranger than anyone thinks
- He lies in the shade of the pyramids
- And tries to make love to the Sphinx
- But the Sphinx is only a statue
- Beset by the sands of the Nile
- Which accounts for the humps on the camel
- And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
The sexual urge of the camel, Is greater than anyone thinks. In a moment of unbridled passion, It even made love to the Sphinx. But the Sphinx's posterior portion, Was clogged with the sands of the Nile. Which accounts for the hump on the camel, And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.