# a monkey that i wish for.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587 "2000-09-09T07:50:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/1 "2000-09-09T07:50:20Z")

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i wish i had amomnkey that dances to perat opera music and is a butler and wears a suti. he’ d be my monek ybutler suit dancer.

–tim

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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/2 "2000-09-09T20:41:09Z")

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::hangs head in shame::

–Tim

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**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/3 "2000-09-09T20:54:13Z")

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Holy shit homer…

maybe you could get some of those sea monkeys though.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/4 "2000-09-09T21:16:32Z")

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Homer, what have you been drinking, and where can I buy some?

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/5 "2000-09-10T00:41:37Z")

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Homer did you and Barney stop at Moe’s again?

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**Author:** ![Anonymous\_c38f64651bbfc0fca993c5b066c30099](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@Anonymous\_c38f64651bbfc0fca993c5b066c30099](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_c38f64651bbfc0fca993c5b066c30099)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/6 "2000-09-10T01:10:48Z")

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I just hope typos aren’t hereditary, for yopur shildren’ss sake.

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**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:** [September 10, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-monkey-that-i-wish-for/32587/7 "2000-09-10T01:56:15Z")

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Homer, I likes yer spirit, so I gonna lock off this monstrosity to give you a second chance to post it in MPSIMS _after_ corrections are made.

We’ll all just pretend that this little incident never happened, o.k.? 😉