# Happy 74th Birthday, Cheeta! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136 "2006-04-10T21:10:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/1 "2006-04-10T21:10:07Z")
Cheeta, Tarzan’s chimpanzee pal from the Tarzan movies n the 30s/40s, celebrated his [74th birthday](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_fe_st/old_chimp_1) today. Holy crap, Cheeta’s still alive! In fact he is the world’s oldest chimp, in the Guiness Book of World Records and everything. Is that cool or what? He even has a [website](http://www.cheetathechimp.org/)! I will definitely be toasting the old guy tonight! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/2 "2006-04-11T00:09:14Z")
good heavens! how many tarzans has there been in his lifetime?!? happy birthday, cheeta! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/3 "2006-04-11T00:27:29Z")
Damn taxes! If I had a spare $125 now, one of [these paintings by Cheeta](http://www.cheetathechimp.org/donate.html) would be mine. I wonder if he would remember any of his former co-stars. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/4 "2006-04-11T01:20:52Z")
You know that saying, “If you can remember the '60s, you weren’t there”? Well, if you can remember the '30s, you weren’t even _born._ Mazeltov, Cheeta. And I apologize for all these years of not seeing the movies and assuming you were a cat. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/5 "2006-04-11T01:24:21Z")
Heard him on NPR yesterday (mostly his keeper). Apparently, he likes going to McDonald drive-thru and watching his old movies. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/6 "2006-04-11T03:02:58Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Apparently, he likes going to McDonald drive-thru and watching his old movies. Does he know he is watching himself? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/7 "2006-04-11T06:44:21Z")
He was overseen telling Koko in sign saying “What I really wanted to do was direct” and “Weismuller… total hack. Maureen O’Sullivan, drama queen. But you know who was great? Gub-Gub the Pig from _Doolittle_, now there was a freakin’ genius, but hated himself cause he was Jewish, it was bad. Then that potbelly jailbait got him into Scientology and that worked for a while, but destroyed his acting. Rex Harrison- played Henry Higgins in everything he did, but Samantha Egger made me wanna throw some feces and say ‘How you doin’?” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/8 "2006-04-11T16:12:39Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Does he know he is watching himself? The keeper seemed to think so. Cheeta seems like one smart cookie, so I wouldn’t be surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/9 "2006-04-11T18:05:40Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Apparently, he likes going to McDonald drive-thru and watching his old movies. Must really hold up the line… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/10 "2006-04-11T23:45:05Z")
i saw cheeta on olbermann last night. he seemed to enjoy his cake and diet coke (decaf.) he drank directly from the can… no wimpy glass or sippy cup for him. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-74th-birthday-cheeta/352136/11 "2006-04-12T00:24:10Z")
I’m not questioning the OP at all, not at all. Just saying, Holy Moley! I can’t believe it. Decades ago, I thought the guy wuz dead and buried. Thank you so much for a really good post/topic.