# I pose for one stupid photo, and THIS happens. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058 "2010-08-22T13:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/1 "2010-08-22T13:31:59Z")
I like the kid, so I agreed to do the damn thing as a joke. “Sure, I’ll wear the leash”, I said. It was funny at the time, but the kid sold the picture to some Chinese tabloid, and now the damn pic is all over the internet. [This](http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/taliban-training-monkey-mujahideen/) is just bullshit. They got part of the story right: > [@](#): > > Ironically, the initiators of “monkey soldiers” are the Americans. Between the 1960s and the 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained massive “monkey soldiers” in the Vietnam War and dispatched armed monkeys to dangerous jungles to launch assaults on Vietnamese soldiers. But I don’t want to talk about 'nam. Those were some dark days, and I’m not proud of everything I did over there, but I sure as hell ain’t part of the fucking Taliban. Damn Chinese newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/2 "2010-08-22T13:58:40Z")
You should be grateful you aren’t one of those red arsed monkeys. Then you would have a tale to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/3 "2010-08-22T19:50:51Z")
Well, you know, you can’t actually _see_ his arse in that picture. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/4 "2010-08-22T21:19:48Z")
I know what you mean. I told Winsor McCay “I had the weirdest dream last night” and he was all “tell me about it”. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/5 "2010-08-23T00:44:35Z")
Come Mr. Taliban, Taliban banana Daylight come an me wan’ go home… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/6 "2010-08-23T00:57:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Well, you know, you can’t actually _see_ his arse in that picture. \*\*HIS \*\*arse? Perhaps we’re suffering from some confusion over identity. Which one is the OP? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/7 "2010-08-23T01:09:20Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > > Well, you know, you can’t actually _see_ his arse in that picture. > > \*\*HIS \*\*arse? Perhaps we’re suffering from some confusion over identity. Which one is the OP? Obviously, he is the one with the gun. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/8 "2010-08-23T01:19:39Z")
D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/9 "2010-08-23T05:43:29Z")
That picture should be in the Doper Photo Gallery. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/10 "2010-08-23T09:37:54Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > You should be grateful you aren’t one of those red arsed monkeys. Then you would have a tale to tell. I don’t want to talk about blue arsed primates. I just don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/11 "2010-08-23T12:53:34Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Come Mr. Taliban, Taliban banana > Daylight come an me wan’ go home… Mwahahahaha!!! 😃 Bravo sir! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/12 "2010-08-23T13:06:02Z")
I could see this evolving into gorilla warfare. Theme song for the article: Parsy Cline singing _I’m falling to Rhesus_. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/13 "2010-08-23T14:02:28Z")
I noticed the other monkey in the picture is not armed with a gun, but is wearing some sort of ninja outfit. :eek: I am much more worried about trained Ninja Monkeys then one carrying a machine pistol. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/14 "2010-08-23T15:52:16Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > I noticed the other monkey in the picture is not armed with a gun, but is wearing some sort of ninja outfit. :eek: > > I am much more worried about trained Ninja Monkeys then one carrying a machine pistol. It’s the Ninja Monkeys you don’t notice that you have to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/15 "2010-08-23T16:28:09Z")
Pffft! Monkeys with guns, they’re not as accurate at hitting targets. Everyone knows it’s the [monkeys with sticks](http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/monkeytrainerEUP_450x300.jpg) you have to watch out for, you never hear them coming. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/16 "2010-08-23T16:47:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Monkeys with guns, they’re not as accurate at hitting targets… Yeah, but if you got 100 monkeys firing 100 guns, they’re bound to hit something. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/17 "2010-08-23T16:50:37Z")
Most likely each other, or they will shoot the shot out of a bunch of bananas. ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/18 "2010-08-23T16:53:41Z")
I have the feeling it’d be mostly the other monkeys though. Throw a banana into the middle of the bunch and you’d have some messy monkeys. Edit: and **Boyo Jim beat me to it** ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/19 "2010-08-23T17:03:18Z")
Monkeys are so small and light that I think the recoil on the gun would have them shooting all over the place without much accuracy. Now gorillas would probably be more accurate but they’re pacifists. Smaller monkeys think they have something to prove. That said, I’d rather not be around any primates wielding firearms. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058/20 "2010-08-23T17:59:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I know what you mean. I told Winsor McCay “I had the weirdest dream last night” and he was all “tell me about it”. I’m totally cracking up at work here. Props. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pose-for-one-stupid-photo-and-this-happens/551058.md?page=2)