http://www.metafilter.com/tags/camelid Posts tagged with 'camelid' at MetaFilter. Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:48:23 -0800 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:48:23 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/52716/Dances%2Dwith%2DLlamas <a href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060611llamadrill.shtml">Llama Drill Team.</a> Yes, it's true. Every June at the <a href="http://www.fiberfrolic.com/">Maine Fiber Frolic</a>, which takes place over a full weekend at the Windsor Fairgrounds on Rt. 32, a cadre of camelids and their handlers (who range in age from grade-schoolers to retirees) perform carefully choreographed routines. According to <a href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060611llamadrill.shtml">news reports</a>, music for this year's program included marches by John Philip Sousa and Elton John and Tim Rice's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" (Photos <a href="http://www.theirishewe.com/mt-static/2006/06/fiber_frolic_2006.shtml">here</a>, <a href="http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=152">here</a> and <a href="http://asheepinwoolsclothing.typepad.com/a_sheep_in_wools_clothing/2006/06/maine_fiber_fro_1.html">here</a>.) But Maine isn't the only place you can catch one of these barnyard extravaganzas. Ohio's well-known "All-Star Llama Drill Team" (established in the mid-1990s) are a fixture at the Buckeye State's <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/legacies/OH/200003422.html">17-day state fair</a>, which also features a llama costume contest and a <a href="http://www.llamapaedia.com/uses/showing.html">llama obstacle course</a>. What's more, the troupe has traveled around the Midwest to perform at, for example, a <a href="http://www.ile-lama-shows.com/Drill-Team.html">camelid convention in Minnesota</a>. [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52716 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:48:23 -0800 batshitinsane camelid drillteam llama GrammarMoses