The most important question of all...

...has to be answered first.

What is the difference between camels and cucumbers?

Well, apart from the obvious differences - you know, one of them is a hairy, brown animal, the other a plain, green vegetable etc., etc. - there should be mentioned the following ones:

• The word camel consists of two syllables, the word cucumber of three.
• Cucumber leaves are pentagonal, camels only even-toed.
• Being cool as a cucumber is a nice characteristic, whereas being hot as a camel seems to be rather annoying to me.
• Cucumbers cannot walk, camels can.
• Cucumbers are related to melons, camels aren't.
• Vegetarians eat cucumbers, but not camels.

This topic could really be useful in case you get stuck in a lift and do not know what to talk about with your "roommate".