The camels are multiplying! Amelia is the official London.pm camel. Why a camel? The Programming Perl book has a camel on the front:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=amelia&w=35034350386%40N01&s=int http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/ The Shadowcat guys have a Niles much like Amelia. Our glorious ex-leader Simon also has a Niles (I hope he's taking good care of him). Peter brought a huge camel to the emergency social on Friday. It's also a way for newcomers to recognize Perl mongers in a pub. You can get one from Amazon. You can also get one from eBay (eBay concentrated on selling Beanie Babies and Barbie Dolls collectibles for its first few years). Let camel proliferation commence! http://www.amazon.co.uk/London.pm-Camel/dp/B00004TFW5/ http://toys.shop.ebay.co.uk/London.pm-Camel/49019/i.html?_nkw=niles+camel Onions are less cute, Léon