How Does One Acquire The Nickname "Camel"?

[Vimto]

A lady of means has told me that she gained the nickname "camel" when a young girl at boarding school and has challenged me to attempt to work just why she should have become so known.
I realise this is a rather whimsical question but thought someone might have a pertinent or amusing reason as to how this may have come about.

[emmie]

did she always have the hump......

[mallyh]

she was water monitor ( I know they store fat but it is said they carried water in their hump )

[aelmpvw]

did she say dromedary when she meant dormitory?

[Tilly2]

Maybe she had big eyes and very long eyelashes.

[aelmpvw]

. . . and feet like hooves

[mallyh]

her names camille

[bhg481]

Perhaps if she's well endowed when she lies on her back there's a similarity.

[fiction-factory]

Anything to do with smoking Camel cigarettes?
Is it true or an urban myth that there was an advert that claimed "nothing satisfies me like a camel"?

[Ellipsis]

Perhaps something to do with her pronunciation of caramel at that age.

[roopower]

Perhaps she had big feet and could go without a drink for a long time

[Tilly2]

I do hope we are going to be told, eventually.

[Ken4155]

Is her name Sandra Waterworth, shortened to Sandy?
Does she have big lips and an habit of spitting at people?
Does she have some tropical disease that made her skin fall off in patches?
Does her 'party piece' include completely closing her nostrils?
Does she prefer mating in a sitting position?
Oh, I give in.

[pixie374]

Trousers too tight?

[Tilly2]

:-)

[Tilly2]

Come on, Vimto. What's the answer?

[Barsel]

Vimto do you know the answer?

[JimF]

Maybe it's similar to the "Martini" nickname...

[shoota]

Surname is 'Sopwith'?

[douglas9401]

A dalliance with a former Economics Editor at the BBC ?

[Tilly2]

Hello, Vimto...