# Monkubines: a business proposal

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkubines-a-business-proposal/505247>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 4, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkubines-a-business-proposal/505247 "2009-08-04T01:26:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkubines-a-business-proposal/505247/101 "2013-08-06T14:22:03Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> Ah, good old Smashy. I always found it most amusing that the State he wanted to smash was Canada. Didn’t he get banned after **Giraffe** accused him of embezzling panhandler funds and funneling them to Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherds?

Don’t quite remember the circumstances, but what got STS kicked off was threatening legal action against the site. THAT will get you banned very quickly.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkubines-a-business-proposal/505247/102 "2013-08-06T16:52:29Z")

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> [@Xema](#):
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> I managed to read the word in the thread title as “monkupines” - and so dove into the thread wondering what use a cross between a monkey and a porcupine might be.
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> Answer: about as much use as what the OP proposed.

My first thought was, “Doesn’t becoming a concubine pretty much directly contradict the whole “celibacy” part of joining a monastery?”

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