The name is appropriate given the animal (no, it’s not camel). These are again made by Tres Outlaws of El Paso and sold through Falconhead, a superb purveyor of custom boots (for a pair worth $25,000, which took hundreds of hours to design and build, and is inlaid with gold coins, have a look at “The Mexican” on their website).
These are more mundane, but built like a rock. They’ll be in good shape when I leave this blessed vale.
Now guess the animal:
American bison?
I bet on that also. Nice boots.
Zebu.
That’s where I was going to go, but obviously not. That means the play isn’t on “hump” but either “Wednesday” or “midpoint.”
I still think it looks not only mammalian but bovine, which is why I’m wondering how it couldn’t be zebu….
b&
My guess is brahman (that’s the big one – zebu is the little one). But I don’t know if there’s any difference in the hide.
Schrödinger’s Boots! If it’s zebu, the brahman lives, if it’s brahman, the zebu lives and if it’s Ken Ham, they both live!”
Whale
I’ll second that: humpback.
Rabbit (named after its habits)
Must be the subspecies, likeamormon. Isn’t that a garment track near the top of the boot?
For 25K, I sure need a pair. Is it a croc?
Crocoduck?
It could only be the most dangerous game!
… MAN …
How deliciously evil and decadent of you. I assume you skinned an undergraduate who showed up unannounced to your office.
(/humor)
No, not Jerry. But recall (historically) Lewis and Clark and their 1803 expedition out West. During his Indian fighting days prior to the expedition, William Clark skinned a man’s legs, to make leggings (which, of course, he wore).
PVC? Microfiber? Christian?
…which leads to the question, are Christians waterproof or water absorbent?!
Given their propensities, I’d say hydrophobic.
Horse.
My reasoning:
Hump day is Wednesday.
Wednesday is named after the Norse god, Woden.
There is a painting by Emil Doepler which depicts Woden healing a dying horse.
A long shot, I admit.
Ostrich?
That was my guess as well…
$25,000? Are you sure you aren’t confusing ‘worth’ with ‘costing?:)
I’m going to go with Moose.
Or Ken Ham. Please let it be Ken Ham.
beat me to it. I’ll second “moose”
…unless, of course, it’s squirrel….
b&
That’s ok, you can have moose. I’ve changed my guess to Quasimodo.
Canine
I saw this article yesterday:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201209/why-dogs-hump
Shark would be my guess.
Crocs.
Daisy roots.
🙂
No, seriously, HORSE.
Could be whale skin, from the photos I’ve seen on the net.
…which, of course, would make it a humpback….
b&
But having finally looked into Zebu, I think you and gb are correct. Zebu.
Hump-nosed lizard?
I want to know when and how Jerry got his fascination for boots. Where did he grow up, for that matter?
Not specific to your questions but some background answering the why questions scientifically:
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/texas-boots/
Peccary
Elephant, altho I can’t work hump into that.
kangaroo
NOOOOO!!
Well, I am dying of curiosity. Please, please, what is the answer?
Wild boar?
Water buffalo? Cape Buffalo?
Can’t be rhinoceros, can they?
3 comments in a row, naughtly boy!
I’ll put up the answer at about 6 o’clock Chicago time. Nobody has guessed correctly so far.
Humped toucan?
http://greatwen.com/2010/05/17/exotic-animals-of-london-no-1-the-humped-toucan/
Sea turtle (because they’ve got fat in their shells, kinda like a camel… maybe that’s a stretch…)
Rapetosaurus?
Sea monster? (Nessie!!!)
Hump-nosed viper?
Emu?
Judging by their website, you have better taste and less money than most of their customers. Gawd, I would be embarrassed to go out of the house in most of those!
Longhorn
Has anyone seen Englebert Humperdink recently? He was starting to look a bit leathery. I’m suspicious.
Which one? One of them died back in the 1920’s, the other one died on stage in Baku earlier this year.
There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose.
OK, then – Yak. They sorta have a hump, IIRC.
OK… hump clue but not camel.. so maybe like camel? And can be used to make boots. LLAMA?!
Vicuna? Alpaca? Guano? Sorry – Gaunaco?
It’s humpday, so I say camel or dromedary.
Hump huh? Could it be a camel leather?
To my untrained eye, it also looks like yak. Yaks live on mountains, hence the hump reference. No?
What have I won?
A leg hump from the Hound of the Baskervilles.
Pig?
It’s bull shoulder! (Regular Bos taurus).
Wait.
What?
That’s not fair!
All that hinting at exotics, and it turns out to be ordinary cow leather?
Waaaaah!
b&
He just wanted to give all of us the hump!:)
Ostrich, for serious shit kickers only.
Looks like bullhide to me (though it’s hard to tell that from Elk, water buffalo, etc.)