I hear this a lot: Hey, you’re the monkey guy, right? Indeed, I have gotten far too much mileage out of a simple text file that I got off the Internet in the mid-90s that I did not write. Nor do I know who originally wrote it. But there’s a new location for I Like Monkeys since I’m sure that Red Hat will eventually remove my people page.
I’m pretty sure this is not worth an entire web log entry, but hey. Here it is.
Chris,
You’re right it’s not worth an entire web log entry. I contend that “I Like Monkeys” is worth an entire weblog. If not that, then probably 2-3 weblogs. Be careful, if you keep on mocking it, a monkey may decide to punch you in the genitals.
–Patrick
You need to put Google ads on it – just to see what ads Google thinks are relevant to that thing…
Mark Bakalor says he’s the original author and has put it online around 1994. http://www.hijinks.com/~mark/archives/1999_11_01_index.html#23590
His claim seems more believable than the one of those who claim authorship giving dates more recent than the oldest copy here on google groups :
http://groups.google.fr/group/nl.misc/msg/88bb36348dc74dfb
I haven’t read it before. That’s hilarious.
Wow. First read for me. Oddly, this makes more sense than a “series of tubes” ever did.
He said he was going to work at google. My arm wasn’t long enough to punch him in the genitals, so I threw a chair at him instead.
I’m with Patrick. Of course the capucins around here are too sweet to be the butt of such jokes, but hey…
sj
im ten years old and i found your monkeys page at chenango forks school! it is the funneist thing i ever read…
I wrote this for a friend back in high school, around 1995 or 1996.
I actually know the guy who wrote this as a simple email back in 1994, as a freshman at Polytechnic University and, everyone ended up forwarding the hell out of it.
Hey…
I am not one to take credit when it is not due, but I wrote this. I’ve still got a rough draft circa 1995 in a journal, although I started it way before then.
I just lost most of my journals (20+ years worth–dude, I am so sad) in the recent Tennessee floods, but if you want to see a hand written copy (unfinished, but mostly there), please feel free to email me. I can tell you about all the changes I made during writing it, and why (if you know me, it all makes sense–I guess you had to be there).
I will say this….I am kind of a technophobe*(No, that does not mean I have a fear of house music), so if I take awhile to respond, I apologize in advance.
I can be reached via email at ehhwolfe@yahoo.com, or on my cell phone @ 615.975.6632.
The only other explanation I can imagine for other various authors claiming this work as their own is some strange convergence of monkey telepathy that we humans have yet to decipher. Stranger things have happened….
Anyway, take it easy….Em
A friend of mine received this from somewhere at least a decade ago and I’ve had it languishing in my archives since then. Still one of the few pieces of text that routinely can make me laugh out loud!