# Buncha howler monkeys!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buncha-howler-monkeys/664397>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 24, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buncha-howler-monkeys/664397 "2013-07-24T17:41:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buncha-howler-monkeys/664397/1 "2013-07-24T17:41:16Z")

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Well, Boner-Boy is at it again.

[No debt ceiling increase without spending cuts](http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/23/19638174-boehner-no-debt-ceiling-increase-without-spending-cuts#comments)

Yeah, because that worked so well _the first time they did it!_ :mad:

It reminds me of _Blackadder_

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> **Melchett:** Field Marshal Haig has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.
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> **Blackadder:** Ah. Would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy?
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> **Captain Darling:** How could you possibly know that, Blackadder? It’s classified information!
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> **Blackadder:** It’s the same plan that we used last time and the seventeen times before that.
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> **Melchett:** Exactly! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It will catch the watchful Hun totally off guard! Doing precisely what we’ve done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they’ll expect us to do this time!

So Boehner & Co are basically saying, ‘We destroyed the economy once, and we did an excellent job of preventing a recovery. But if we try the same thing again, then there will be profit!’

Ook! Ook!

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buncha-howler-monkeys/664397/2 "2013-07-24T18:35:21Z")

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Your _Blackadder_ quote reminds me of another famous strategist recounting a similarly brilliant plan:

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> **Fry:** “I heard one time you single-handedly defeated a horde of rampaging somethings in the something something system”
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> **Brannigan:** “Killbots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them.”
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> **Fry:** “Wow, I never would’ve thought of that.”
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> **Brannigan:** “You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.”

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buncha-howler-monkeys/664397/3 "2013-07-24T20:05:31Z")

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[_Five_ howler monkeys … and a banana.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=697212) 😃

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buncha-howler-monkeys/664397/4 "2013-07-24T22:36:35Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Well, Boner-Boy is at it again.

I was _sure_ this thread was going to be about Anthony Weiner.