# A dark theory about gorillagrams **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324 "2023-06-11T17:14:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/41 "2023-06-11T21:08:50Z")
The one I remember is the invisible one in the basketball game. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Varn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michael_varn/32/14411_2.png) [@Michael\_Varn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Varn)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/42 "2023-06-11T21:10:13Z")
No, the NBA’s Pheonix Sun’s official mascot is a gorilla wearing a team uniform! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/43 "2023-06-11T22:10:23Z")
Yeah, it’s not like the good old days when you knew you were getting a [Land Shark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NS2H55dxI)! _shakes fist and wanders into the outback_ ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/44 "2023-06-11T22:53:49Z")
Candygram. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/45 "2023-06-11T23:01:27Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > The one I remember is the invisible one in the basketball game. This whole thread I’ve been thinking of the gorilla in the original _The Electric Company_. He might be in this episode, which introduces Spider-Man as part of the cast. > **[Electric Company - episode 391 - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oxs0c)** > > On the heels of its fabulously successful Sesame Street, the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) created The Electric Company. With its roots in Motown Sound, Broadway and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Electric Company drew attention for six... ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/46 "2023-06-11T23:06:41Z")
Reading this thread brings to mind the story of [Jack Woolams](https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the-test-pilot-of-the-usafs-first-jet-fighter-dressed-as-a-gorilla-to-mess-with-other-pilots/), the test pilot who wore a gorilla mask when he was putting the P-59 Airacomet (the first jet fighter designed by the USA) through it’s paces. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/47 "2023-06-11T23:10:47Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > So when a gorilla enters the school, they obviously had to check in at the main office to identify themselves, and that they have a message for a particular teacher, and then they are waved through. They would wave them through, you reckon? To disturb and interrupt class and a teacher? I doubt it. They would rather be shot at. > [@Riemann](#): > > The one I remember is the invisible one in the basketball game. I did not see that one either. Truly mind boggling. And no, I have never before heard of a gorillagram. Sounds meshugge to me. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/48 "2023-06-12T10:01:53Z")
Back in the 80’s we put on a 40th birthday party for a much admired senior manager at the company where I worked. The party was at a rented hall, not the workplace. We got her a gorilla stripogram. It was a guy in a gorilla suit with a tuxedo on over that. It was a pretty funny routine as he stripped out of the tux. The finale was ripping off the trousers revealing an enormous pair of boxers with hearts on them. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/49 "2023-06-12T13:33:22Z")
Nature photography is wonderful: [Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla: The Original - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H7zcqjplc) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/50 "2023-06-12T13:51:23Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > The gorrilas I saw didn’t literally pop up out of thin air, they actually used the door to come into the room. David Copperfield didn’t just start in megahalls in Vegas; he had to work his way up, yanno. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/51 "2023-06-12T15:16:39Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > Yes, talk to a zoologist. I gaurantee you that any species of bear would not stand a chance in a fight with a silverback gorrila! [Gorilla vs. Grizzly Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-vs-grizzly-bear/324091/54) It does start to get derailed once the whole Lion angle gets introduced. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/52 "2023-06-12T16:06:08Z")
Back in the 1950s if you wanted to up your gorilla-at-the-party game, you could invite [The Nairobi Trio](https://youtu.be/416o9b_pjQk). ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/53 "2023-06-12T16:29:17Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > Of course it’s not a gift but a message. > > A “friendly reminder” that you owe money. Okay, but they could also send flowers with a threatening message. Or a singing telegram about how 🎶 _they’re going to break your legs_ 🎶 What is it specifically about [this](https://www.getaballoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Gorilla-Gram.png) that makes it an issue? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/54 "2023-06-12T16:36:15Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Gorillas are normally rather docile, but if they feel threatened they can literally rip your head off. I mean literally literally. True, but their penmanship is absolutely terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Varn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michael_varn/32/14411_2.png) [@Michael\_Varn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Varn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/55 "2023-06-12T16:55:35Z")
On the issue of large wild animals, who saw the movie, “Cocaine Bear”? Could someone please explain to me how it is possible for an animal of any size to injest that much cocaine in one sitting and not be dead within minutes? They say this film was based alot on a true story, but it makes absolutely no since, common or otherwise. There is no way that a black bear can injest that much cocaine all at once, and go on a killing spree that lasts several hours and days. I guess you shouldn’t believe everything you see at the movies… ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/56 "2023-06-12T18:18:25Z")
There was bear who ate a bunch of cocaine. That’s about all that matches. In real life the bear was already dead when they found it. It’s a comedy movie, not a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/57 "2023-06-12T18:25:28Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > I can’t prove it, but Iam convinced that the gorrilagram has been used as a tool for stalking. What evidence convinced you? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/58 "2023-06-12T19:13:17Z")
Since “Gorillagrams” (what few are left) are sent out by agencies that handle a variety of other novelty greetings, are you saying: 1. The head of the agency is sending out the personnel with instructions to take pictures and/or spy on the person getting the gift, or 2. The employee is telling the boss “Gee, wouldn’t it be just grand to send out a Gorillagram to Mrs. Penelope Petrocelli at 2333 W. Primrose Park free of charge? Let me get my gorilla suit on and I can be right out there!”? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/59 "2023-06-12T19:14:18Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > I guess you shouldn’t believe everything you see at the movies… Did you actually think “Cocaine Bear” was a documentary? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324/60 "2023-06-12T20:34:56Z")
> [@Michael\_Varn](#): > > I can’t prove it, but Iam convinced that the gorrilagram has been used as a tool for stalking. It was D. B. Cooper under the mask all along. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dark-theory-about-gorillagrams/985324.md?page=4)