Wednesday, October 17, 2012

camper’s kebab: n.A dump taken in one’s hat when one would rather not leave the tent. ‘It was blowing a terrible blizzard last night. Indeed, it was so cold that when nature called, Bowers decided not to risk exposing himself to the risk of frostbite and instead ordered a camper’s kebab. After living on nothing save penguin fat, rancid pemmican and seal blubber for six months, the smell was too much for Oates, who called him a dirty cunt and went outside to get some fresh air. He ventured out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since.’ (from the handwritten entry for March 18th, 1912, found in a Lett’s Antarctic Explorer’s Diary on the body of captain Robert Falcon Scott).