I was an anthropology major studying apes when I was in college. I don’t know how many times people would joke about “the apes at work” or “the apes all around me” or something, I can’t remember exactly what they said, so at least there was some variation.
But damn, I mean, yes humans are animals related to apes. No, I don’t want to study humans, I’ve been doing that my whole life. No, you’re not being clever by showing that you know that humans are related to apes. The first couple times I laughed, but when the SAME PEOPLE make the joke several times I feel like just shouting “get over it! This is not something I haven’t heard before!”
Someone at my school apparently has the last name Chin and the first initial K. In the engineering school the e-mail addresses are formatted this so: last name followed by first initial and then the @ and extension.