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.

Andrew massyn ):
 * 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.