A couple times on the SDMB I’ve seen refernces to monkey butlers. Today, during the annual Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action training at work, I (of course) wasn’t paying attention and started filling out the review of the course before the instructor was finished.
Without thinking, and feeling a little silly and generally cranky cuz I didn’t want to sit through this, under the item “What can be done to improve this course” I wrote in: “Dress some chimpanzees in little chimp-tuxedos, then train them to be butlers and serve cookies and soft drinks.” Then I suddenly realized I was writing this with a pen! There it was, in ink, un-erasable.
The good news is you’ll probably get a raise for coming up with that winning idea.
The bad news is…you’ll probably be in charge of getting the little chimp-tuxedos on the little buggers.
Sonofagun!!! I ought to know better. I need to put a post-it note on my monitor that says, “Warning! Do not read any posts by Crunchy Frog while eating, unless there is another person in the room who can do the hiemlich maneuver!”
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crunchy frog just in case you weren’t aware, I believe “monkey butlers” were from a Simpson’s Episode. In which Bart and the rest of the kids form school get involved in a bus accident that strands them on a deserted island.
I remember now! Thanks stuffinb. It’s just that I associated it with the SDMB because that’s where I last remembered seeing someone talk about monkey butlers.
You should have suggested a monkey knife fight to conclude the training course. Of course, you may have to schedule a trip into international waters to do so.
Actually Homer, that’s the thread that put monkey butlers in my head to begin with. I couldn’t find it doing a search since I didn’t know what it was titled and a search for “monkey” didn’t work since you had spelled it “amomnkey” and “monek” in the OP. Thanks for the link
"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. "
MS doesn’t know what the hell “amomnkey” is supposed to be and offered no suggestions.
“perat” could be pert, periapt, pirate, peat, or pear
“suti” could be suit, suite, suttee, suet, or suety
“monek” came back as monk, Monaco, Monica, monkey, or money
“ybutler” it got right and showed only one possiblitiy: butler
So how many new sentences can we make up with these possibilites?
i wish i had a mom and key that dances to pirate opera music and is a butler and wears a suttee. he’ d be my monk butler suit dancer.
btw here’s the definition for suttee is: the act or custom of a Hindu widow willingly being cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband as an indication of her devotion to him; also : a woman cremated in this way
It was a tie between that and suet for those who don’t know: the hard fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton that yields tallow.
So which is better? Wearing hard fat or a cremated Hindu widow?
You guys, you guys, you KNOW that there are three things that deeply disturb me. I’m not proud - I’m especially ashamed of #2 because it officially makes me a bad person - but I can’t help that-can’t-look-but-can’t-look-away feeling.
Clowns
Midgets
Monkeys wearing clothes. Any animal wearing clothes, really.
Not too bug you, but just cuz I’m curious – Would it disturb you that sometimes I put a little dog sweater on my dog CoCo cuz she’s old with short fur and gets cold during a St Louis winter? Or is it just when people dress animals up as little people cuz they think it’s cute?
Brat, that’s quite a dilemma you’ve presented, and I’ll be completely honest with you. I’ll admit that old, frail dogs might NEED a wittle sweater-wetter in really cold weather. In a strict sense I still don’t enjoy seeing it, but in cold weather I tend to give the benefit of the doubt.
The dressing animals up because it’s cute thing is universally revolting.
…so what if a small monkey in a ballarina costume and tutu, being held on a leash by a midget in a clown outfit, was bearing its teeth and screetching and simultaniously trying to grab something out of your hands in a frantic manner and the midget clown was laughing and patting your knee with his pudgey little hands?
