So I adopted a wayward pet monkey when I was drunk...

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Several weeks ago I was reading an article about the owner of the Internet-famous "Ikea Monkey" and how a Canadian court has denied her request to have Darwin, her pet Rhesus Macaque returned to her.

This precipitated into a google search for "Pet Monkey"

And somehow I ended up on a different website, which told stories of monkeys in the pet trade who were living in bad conditions, unhealthy or unhappy, and who we're going from "forever home" to "forever home" all because their adoptive owners either couldn't handle them, or the novelty wore off. Reading about the unhappy, abused monkeys

(I feel I should tell you that I was seven or eight beers in, at this point)

made me sad.

Three or four beers later, I hade somehow landed on the web page for Born Free USA's Primate Sanctuary, which to the best of my recollection, is somewhere near Austin, TX.

(you ought to know that I have pieced what follows together from evidence after-the-fact)

So there I was (I assume) reading about the various troupes of monkeys they have there, when I saw the "Adopt A Monkey" link.

I clicked on it, and selected a female snow macaque to adopt, and filled out the forms and gave my credit card info (I pieced this together the following day, after reading the confirmation email and checking my credit card activity).

I must have gone to sleep shortly thereafter.


And before you maniacs call me a lightweight- I was drinking Dogfish Head ipa's, and a few 22's of Lagunita's WTF.

Anyway. I wake up the next morning with a splitting headache and an email in my inbox saying "thanks" for my support, that my contribution will go to the care of the monkey I selected (i think her name is "Lizzie," or "Lisa," whatever it starts with an "L"), and that in a few days I would receive a package containing a suitable-for-framing photograph of the monkey, a certificate stating to the effect that I am a friend of primates, and some other stuff.

I think I'd donated 50 bucks.

So, it's been weeks since then and not only have I not recieved the photograph of my monkey and certificate and stuff, I haven't gotten any emails about her, either.

Part of me asks "What gives?" And the other part shakes it's head and says- "That's what happens when you get drunk and listen to the Smiths and read depressing stuff late at night."

Siiiiigh.


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Bud you posted that so quickly after I hit submit that I have to scratch my head and wonder how long you've had that particular trump card up your sleeve, waiting to play it.

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I also hate it when I have to count all the empties on my desk the next day.

They look at me accusingly.

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Can't say why, but this story makes me smile in a sentimental sort of way.
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seeahill wrote:Can't say why, but this story makes me smile in a sentimental sort of way.
Then I did my job :happiness:

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You can't trust monkeys.
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Dr. Agkistrodon wrote:Bud you posted that so quickly after I hit submit that I have to scratch my head and wonder how long you've had that particular trump card up your sleeve, waiting to play it.
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Of course it's fifteen minutes to Homer.

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You're up late at night drinking pretentious beer and reading abused monkey testimonies? Meanwhile, your promises of delivering a healing salve to remedy the blight of small dickness have all come to nothing...NOTHING!!!

Good God man, where's your dedication to science? Where's your commitment to hang big long ugly dangling trouser snakes on all of mankind (or, at least those of us who can afford the goods...no freebies to welfare niggers and pensioners like that goddamned Andy93 or whatever the fuck he's up to).

I can understand if you were up all night drinking your over-priced swill from some est. 2008 microbrewery, and putting on airs like a man who thinks he's too good to drink Budweiser or Coors Light like a real working stiff if only you were trolling chat rooms for a cyber partner (read: a guy willing to pretend he's a woman until after you finish) or searching for that PERFECT nugget of "European mature takes on an 18 year old boy after catching him wanking to a well worn issue of Swank" from some godforsaken Russian pr0n tube poster site. That...THAT...I can forgive. We've all got to kick back with the devil's ball sweat every once in a while to drown away the existential meaninglessness of this life...we've all got to grease our palm from time-to-time and jack away the sorrow of "no pussy tonight" to the shocking image of three hung niggers from darkest Africa grudge fucking the chafed orifices of some dumb blonde from the valley.

But...monkeys...really?

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Yeah, well, I think I can empathize with this a great deal. Almost adopted a dog (for real) one night. Thank god I have this, "wait a minute, you're drunk, knock it off" instinct that kicks in about 33% of the time.
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Kazuya Mishima wrote:You're up late at night drinking pretentious beer and reading abused monkey testimonies? Meanwhile, your promises of delivering a healing salve to remedy the blight of small dickness have all come to nothing...NOTHING!!!

Good God man, where's your dedication to science? Where's your commitment to hang big long ugly dangling trouser snakes on all of mankind (or, at least those of us who can afford the goods...no freebies to welfare niggers and pensioners like that goddamned Andy93 or whatever the fuck he's up to).

I can understand if you were up all night drinking your over-priced swill from some est. 2008 microbrewery, and putting on airs like a man who thinks he's too good to drink Budweiser or Coors Light like a real working stiff if only you were trolling chat rooms for a cyber partner (read: a guy willing to pretend he's a woman until after you finish) or searching for that PERFECT nugget of "European mature takes on an 18 year old boy after catching him wanking to a well worn issue of Swank" from some godforsaken Russian pr0n tube poster site. That...THAT...I can forgive. We've all got to kick back with the devil's ball sweat every once in a while to drown away the existential meaninglessness of this life...we've all got to grease our palm from time-to-time and jack away the sorrow of "no pussy tonight" to the shocking image of three hung niggers from darkest Africa grudge fucking the chafed orifices of some dumb blonde from the valley.

But...monkeys...really?
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Even a Nobel Prize hopeful like me needs a break every now and again. But you're right and I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately I am chortling so loud and so hard right now that my belly hurts, my eyes are watering and I can't come up with a clever response.

Oh my God I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

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Monkeys, who do you think taught Nigerian scammers their trade?

They are sneeringly hooting at your foolishness right now. They will hoot even more viciously when you discover that your adoption of that skank whore simian was $50/month.
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syaigh wrote:Yeah, well, I think I can empathize with this a great deal. Almost adopted a dog (for real) one night. Thank god I have this, "wait a minute, you're drunk, knock it off" instinct that kicks in about 33% of the time.
Tell us about the other 2/3s of the time.
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God damn booze. God damn Morrissey and Johnny Marr. God damn irresponsible fad-pet owners. God damn scam simian sanctuaries.

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Considering that you got drunk while listening to the fucking Smiths, any night that didn't end with you staring down an anonymous dick and weeping softly should be considered a triumph.

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I guess there's that, yes.

That and not ending the night with my head in the oven.

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syaigh wrote: kicks in about 33% of the time.
I like my chances.

PM me immediately. I'll buy.
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http://pages.infinit.net/garrick/jokes/monkeys.html

I like Monkeys

The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought this was odd since they were normally a couple thousand dollars. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth so I bought 200 of them. I like monkeys.

I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one of them drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in the genitals. I laughed. They punched me in the genitals. I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech and hurl themselves off the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into it's third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive; they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sort of dropped dead. Kinda like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. God damn cheap monkeys.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room; on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and one hundred ninety-nine dead, dry monkeys.

I tried to pretend that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for awhile, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in my toilet and I didn't want to call a plumber. I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two at a time, so I had to change them every 30 seconds.

I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't go bad.

I tried to burn them, but little did I know that my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and one hundred ninety-seven dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odour wasn't improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of the dead monkeys and I really had to use the bathroom. So I went and severely beat one of the monkeys. I felt better.

I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him I had a wet one. He couldn't take it either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't quite know what to say. They pretended to like them, but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.

I like monkeys.
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syaigh wrote:Yeah, well, I think I can empathize with this a great deal. Almost adopted a dog (for real) one night. Thank god I have this, "wait a minute, you're drunk, knock it off" instinct that kicks in about 33% of the time.
You mean 33% of the time that you are drunk or that you are drunk 33% of the time?
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Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:Considering that you got drunk while listening to the fucking Smiths, any night that didn't end with you staring down an anonymous dick and weeping softly should be considered a triumph.
That's a takedown. 2 points
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:Considering that you got drunk while listening to the fucking Smiths, any night that didn't end with you staring down an anonymous dick and weeping softly should be considered a triumph.
That's a takedown. 2 points
Siiiiigh. The n00b bastard got me. And to add insult to injury, he got a legit LOL out of me.

Motherfucker.

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Jon grew up on the mean streets of Monkey Island, where he's made many a young man cry after roughly taking their virginity

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