Can you say the word "Monkey" any longer

#152
Really bbbb?
F'n Norway?
Add the personal income tax rate, social security total tax rate and sales tax rate.
https://tradingeconomics.com/norway/personal-income-tax-rate
I want to move there. NOPE!
C'mon, you can do better than that.
Norway total population 5.3 million. We have CITIES with the population of their whole country. GDP of 398 billion. Really?
Bernie and his fellow moron (uh-oh, I'm racist) Pocahontas, really need to retake some econ. Maybe a reading of Adam Smith. Idiots.
 
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#171
QuickNDirty said:
So, my 3 year old ran into my office today shouting about gorillas in the garage. He wanted me to get his dart gun so he could go shoot 'em.

Is he racist?
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Depends. Does he time his runs between the garage and the office. And whether he gets a trophy for the fastest time. If so, he's a racerist in training... ?
 
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And sometimes peeple get locked out of the hide for monkeyshines. ??????????
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And how come nobody complained about the monkey on animal crackers.
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Them people really racist.
 
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And my cell phone is racist as hell, the fucker starts the emojis with "a MONKEY !!!!!" Who do we call about this shit ?

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It's a racist conspiracy !!!!!
 
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sirhrmechanic said:
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Typing as fast as I can, but we are a long way from 7 pages 'homes!

Cheers,

Sirhr
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Infinite Monkey Theorem

There's an old theorem about monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare, suggesting that, with an infinite amount of time, a monkey randomly tapping away at a typewriter would actually recreate the famous playwright's complete works.

And of course someone had to give it a go, sort of
https://plus.maths.org/content/infinite-monkey-businesst

It is also a winery
https://www.theinfinitemonkeytheorem.com/about/
 
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#191
In Tudor England, it was fashionable to give gifts of exotic animals as pets: “When Lady Lisle gave Anne Boleyn a monkey in 1534, she wasn’t pleased. ‘As to touching your monkey,’ John Hussee wrote to Lisle the following year, ‘of a truth, madam, the queen loveth no such beasts nor can scarce abide the sight of them.’ What happened to the monkey isn’t clear. One hopes Anne didn’t do to it what Samuel Pepys did to his pet monkey in 1661: he battered it half to death in a fit of rage. Perhaps she palmed it off on a distant relative, as Pepys did with his pet eagle a few years later, writing in his diary that ‘we were heartily glad to be rid of her, she fouling our house mightily.’”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/mary-wellesley/no-looking-at-my-elephant
 
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Being the savage’s bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back. You have seen Italian organ boys holding a dancing ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ship’s steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist.

It was a humorously perilous business for both of us. For, before we proceed further, it must be said that the monkey rope was fast at both ends; fast to Queequeg’s broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow leather one. So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time, were wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both usage and honor demanded that instead of cutting the cord, it should drag me down in his wake. So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature united us. Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother, nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed.

- Excerpt from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
 
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At a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1860, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce asked T. H. Huxley, who came to be known as “Darwin’s Bulldog,” if it was on his grandmother’s or his grandfather’s side that he was descended from a monkey. To which Huxley reportedly replied, “I should feel it no shame to have risen from such an origin; but I should feel it a shame to have sprung from one who prostituted the gifts of culture and eloquence to the service of prejudice and of falsehood.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts...science-and-portraits-of-discovery-170769291/
 
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I am positive that Melville is on the SJW “burn on sight” list without the monkey line reference just for that fact it was written by a white man...

The staff sent out of TGIF Labor Day weekend email on Friday, and the boss responded “bah humbug”. The millennials did not understand the reference and had never heard the phrase.

We are fucking doomed when the jewels of western literature are no longer taught nor understood.
 
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MosesTheTank said:
At a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1860, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce asked T. H. Huxley, who came to be known as “Darwin’s Bulldog,” if it was on his grandmother’s or his grandfather’s side that he was descended from a monkey. To which Huxley reportedly replied, “I should feel it no shame to have risen from such an origin; but I should feel it a shame to have sprung from one who prostituted the gifts of culture and eloquence to the service of prejudice and of falsehood.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts...science-and-portraits-of-discovery-170769291/
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Any relation to William? If it were seems being an enlightened badass runs in the family.

Edit: my bad. Huxley was the BA. anyway, William redeemed them.
 
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They would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle People could see them. They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying, “What the Bandar Log think now the jungle will think later,” and that comforted them a great deal.
 
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Mikhail Zoshchenko volunteered to fight in World War I and was gassed on the German front, causing him permanent heart and liver damage. He then fought in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution. Zoshchenko published Sentimental Tales in 1929, Youth Restored in 1933, and The Blue Book in 1935. Within months of publishing his story “The Adventures of a Monkey” in 1946, Zoshchenko was denounced by Soviet authorities as the “scum of literature” and, along with poet Anna Akhmatova, was expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union.

Seems as if the Politburo had their own BBB and no Hide to come to his defense.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Mikhaylovich-Zoshchenko
 
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