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The AP has a funny article up about rich Arab princes buying camels for beauty pageants. Either the AP writer or her editor was masturbating furiously when thinking about these hot, slutty camel minxes, because look at the glorious camel typo:

Camels are registered for beauty contest in several categories, defined by age and skin color. The owners of the top three camels in each category split a $US2 million price fund and each receive a car from a pool of more than 100 4×4 vehicles and pickup trucks.

Five judges asses the camels’ bodies as a whole and their necks, heads, lips, noses, humps, legs and feet separately.

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This week has been a good one for celebrity-obsessed Washingtonians. A handful of “famous-for-famous” people, and a slew of “famous-for-DC” people, showed up at the Congressional Correspondents dinner on Wednesday night. And, of course, let’s not forget the camel sighting on Monday. (As for Butterstick, sufferers of panda withdrawal syndrome should check out this site or this one.)

After the jump, still more celebrity sightings. You’ve been doing a nice job of keeping us well-supplied; keep ‘em coming! (If you remember to do so, please include the word “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject of your message, so we can separate your message from the never-ending stream of offers for Cialis, OEM software, and mortgage refinancing.)

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Denizens of D.C., there is no need to panic; the runaway camel has been recaptured. A Wonkette operative kindly did the legwork for us and reported back as follows: MORE »

We just received this (somewhat random) email from a reader: MORE »