i like monkeys gets a new home

October 26, 2007 in Monkeys | 10 comments

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.

  1. Patrick Wagstrom’s avatar

    Patrick Wagstrom on October 26, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    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

  2. Havoc’s avatar

    Havoc on October 26, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    You need to put Google ads on it – just to see what ads Google thinks are relevant to that thing…

  3. jmdesp’s avatar

    jmdesp on October 26, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    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

  4. Rahul Sundaram’s avatar

    Rahul Sundaram on October 26, 2007 at 7:01 pm

    I haven’t read it before. That’s hilarious.

  5. Mike Ferris’s avatar

    Mike Ferris on October 26, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    Wow. First read for me. Oddly, this makes more sense than a “series of tubes” ever did.

  6. ethana2’s avatar

    ethana2 on October 27, 2007 at 2:20 am

    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.

  8. chibi38’s avatar

    chibi38 on July 10, 2008 at 11:42 am

    im ten years old and i found your monkeys page at chenango forks school! it is the funneist thing i ever read…

  9. Steven Mohler’s avatar

    Steven Mohler on August 2, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    I wrote this for a friend back in high school, around 1995 or 1996.

  10. OthelloNYC’s avatar

    OthelloNYC on June 3, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    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.