# Monkey Butlers is gone?!!! Say it isn't so! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 7, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505 "2006-07-07T15:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/1 "2006-07-07T15:07:36Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37864](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37864) What happened to it? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/2 "2006-07-07T15:42:32Z")
It’ll be back. Temporarily removed. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/3 "2006-07-08T04:23:44Z")
Glad to hear it will be back. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/4 "2006-07-08T21:05:55Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Temporarily removed. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/5 "2006-07-09T03:06:12Z")
What on Earth _is_ it? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/6 "2006-07-09T03:43:07Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > What on Earth _is_ it? An ancient thread started long ago by a poster who’s no longer here. He was incredibly shitfaced and posted this rambling post about how he wanted a little monkey in a little suit and top hat to be his butler. It was always a Doper favorite, and an old in joke. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/7 "2006-07-09T03:44:51Z")
Are you talking about **Homer** , the shoehorn butterhorse guy? Man, that monkey idea sounds _awesome_. I want whatever he was smokin’. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/8 "2006-07-09T03:57:41Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > Are you talking about **Homer** , the shoehorn butterhorse guy? > > Man, that monkey idea sounds _awesome_. I want whatever he was smokin’. Yep, that’d be the one. I don’t remember the “shoehorn butterhorse” one, though. He had a lot of greatest hits. Come back to us, Tim! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/9 "2006-07-09T07:17:38Z")
That was the one where he posted that he was about to eat a bag of shrooms, and then he did and posted the whole way through. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/10 "2006-07-09T07:53:12Z")
“Shoehorn butterhorse” was part of the ‘shroomin’ thread (as was noted). That had a lot of good things in it. Madonna, hamburger, shoehorns… ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/11 "2006-07-09T17:38:54Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Why? As has happened before, we’re up against the limits of what the board can hold and a bunch of older posts were physically removed so you can continue to post. We’ll get everything back when we can but for right now this is what happens from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/12 "2006-07-09T19:14:50Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > That was the one where he posted that he was about to eat a bag of shrooms, and then he did and posted the whole way through. Oh, yeah, that was a great thread. I just couldn’t remember all the weird stuff from it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/13 "2006-07-09T20:49:36Z")
What’s the big deal about a monkey butler? I spend a good portion of my week following along and collecting dog-nougat in old shopping bags. On Earth, even canines have _human_ butlers. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/14 "2006-07-10T02:03:51Z")
I believe that Bart Simpson mentioned having a “monkey butler” once. That probably spawned it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/15 "2006-07-10T18:46:28Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > What on Earth _is_ it? That’s the beauty of it! It isn’t _anything_! ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/16 "2006-07-11T20:16:49Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > That was the one where he posted that he was about to eat a bag of shrooms, and then he did and posted the whole way through. I loved that post. My favorite part was when he exclaimed, “Aaaaah! It tastes like burnt ass!” Or something like that. Naturally, everyone wondered how he knew the flavor of burnt ass. One wise poster replied (paraphrasing), “On the contrary, now I know what burnt ass tastes like.” I use that all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/17 "2006-07-12T01:11:09Z")
yeah, the shroomin’ thread is gotta be in my top 5 all time. Anyone remember the line that went something like “I no longer breathe, I subcontracted my lungs to a guy in Philli” or something vaguely like that. Best part of the thread was, after the first few sober posts where Homer, after eating 3 shrooms and waiting for them to kick, asks for posters’ opinions on whether he should finish the bag. Everyone chimes in, “sure go ahead, you’ll have a great time, etc”. Homer comes in with his first classic long stream of consciousness psychedic rambling post. Next post: “I guess he shoulda stopped at three”. bwahahaha!!! But yeah, bring back monkey butlers!!! ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/18 "2006-07-12T16:14:37Z")
[I just ate three mushrooms](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=38764&highlight=mushrooms) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/19 "2006-07-13T06:54:14Z")
Ah, so James Frey was on mushrooms, its all clear now. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-butlers-is-gone-say-it-isnt-so/363505/20 "2006-07-14T23:55:57Z")
Surely you mean [Dwight Frye](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296859/), best known as Renfield in Tod Browning’s 1931 production of [Dracula](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021814/). “A-hunh-hunh-hunh…the blood is the shoehorn butterhorse…a-hunh-hunh-hunh…”