# I welcome our monkey overlords! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445 "2007-02-23T23:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/1 "2007-02-23T23:11:01Z")
How fun, now they can be just like us! [See? Evil!](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201007.html) ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/2 "2007-02-23T23:33:59Z")
Charlton Heston unavailable for comment. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/3 "2007-02-24T00:00:54Z")
I get more & convinced that killing Bonobos = Murder. This clinches it for me. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/4 "2007-02-24T00:17:25Z")
At the bequest of our Monkey Overlords, I am moving this thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/5 "2007-02-24T00:20:42Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] At the bequest of our Monkey Overlords, I am moving this thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. [/QUOTE] Take it back. We [already have one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409692) here, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/6 "2007-02-24T05:37:31Z")
These are the weapons of mass destruction and the will to use them. The Chimps have just joined the arms race. I predict that we will now kill more Chimps in inter species warfare than ever before, and that with great, humane, moral certitude and justification. Primate terror. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/7 "2007-02-24T12:33:21Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Take it back. We [already have one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409692) here, thanks. [/QUOTE] Quick! Sharpen the sticks, the monkeys from the other thread might burst in any minute now! Oh oh oh oh oh! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/8 "2007-02-24T14:01:16Z")
We should have known what they were up to, when they started smoking pipes, & riding tricycles…like Kaiser Wilhelm did! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/9 "2007-02-24T14:40:30Z")
I resent the use of the M-word. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-our-monkey-overlords/393445/10 "2007-02-24T15:23:40Z")
It’s evolution right in front of us. Like med-resistant germs. 🆒