# Sssssssssssssssssssssssssss

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175 "2003-05-09T18:50:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/1 "2003-05-09T18:50:48Z")

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[link to story](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030509/ap_on_fe_st/britain_monkey_authors_3)

[Mr. Burns]  
“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?!”  
[/Mr. Burns]

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/2 "2003-05-09T19:44:59Z")

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I knew thissssssss wassssssssss going to be aaaaaaaaaaaaaabout the monkeysssssssssssssss.

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/3 "2003-05-09T19:55:07Z")

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I was thinking someone was letting the air out of my tires…

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**Author:** ![spinningplates](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@spinningplates](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinningplates)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/4 "2003-05-09T19:57:52Z")

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What I wonder, is why Ssssss? I look at my keyboard and ssssee no particular reason to choosssssse ssssss over any other letter. Heck, the @ key is more cool than sssss. Sssstupid monkeysssss.

'Coursssse, the part about them pooing on the computer had me trying to think up a Microsssssoft joke.

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**Author:** ![Francis\_E\_Dec\_Esq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@Francis\_E\_Dec\_Esq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_E_Dec_Esq)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/5 "2003-05-09T20:46:47Z")

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Darn! I thought this thread would be about [SSSSSSS](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070622)

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/6 "2003-05-09T20:48:09Z")

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They weren’t actually typing, per se. See, one of the males got ahold of the keyboard and after taking a good whiff of it, got a little…well, he got a little _amorous_. He flipped it 1/4 turn counter-clockwise, tilted it up on end and started to do his thing for 5 pages worth!

If the was better hung, he would have been hitting the “D” key! 😃

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Never kiss an animal that can lick its own butt.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/7 "2003-05-09T20:50:00Z")

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> “Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,” added Phillips, who runs the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.

And the monkeys were immediately hired by the Fox Network.

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**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/8 "2003-05-09T21:22:49Z")

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The s key is where the s\_\_\_ landed.

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**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sssssssssssssssssssssssssss/174175/9 "2003-05-09T22:07:44Z")

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Well, ya beat my thread by enough. And your title wasn’t cut off neither.