I thought that was just an expression.
I also thought it was just a running joke on Letterman. He's actually got a few (I think he's monkey-obsessed). Every once in a while, David Letterman exclaims that he wouldn't give his problems to "a monkey on a rock."
And during the Christmas season, the late-night talk show host would "treat" the audience to a recurring clip of a monkey sneezing.
Whether it be fascination or just a fetish I have no need for monkeys in my life. Yet here I am in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening inundated with the continuing drama of "As the Monkey Turns".
I've heard the 9-1-1 calls as many times as I can handle. Former TV actor/primate "Travis" the chimp mauls his owners good friend in Connecticut while she cries for the authorities to get to her home and kill it.
Did the chimp, who was 15 and fondley remembered by neighbors, go crazy?
Absolutely not.
The pull from the pages of Chris Rock, the monkey didn't go crazy. The monkey went monkey.
It's a wild animal. Despite how domesticated they can sometimes appear, it's still a wild animal. There's a reason their evolution progress halted and left them unable to leave the jungle. Monkeys are monkeys, they are not dogs, cats or goldfish.
If anything, "Travis's" owner, Sandra Herold is the crazy one. She gave the thing zanax the morning of the attack to calm him down, according to the Hartford Courant's Roger Catlin. Yeah, a little zanax to quell a 200-lb. chimpanzee.
People who treat animals too human-like freak me out.
Anyone else? Grind that...and let me know.
Mike Tobias
Port Arthur News
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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Monkeys are a cool animal, their behavior is quite unpredictable, yet their resemble with humans is uncanny, I once saw a sick monkey, he was hairless and wow his body were the same of a human being, same muscles, same structure..quite amazing.
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