Meet the ancestors
Right. It’s time someone dealt with this phenomenon in a considered way. It’s time somebody used measured analysis and dispassionate comment to open up an ongoing?debate.
Primate-related 20six blogs
| Blog title | User name | Comments | Sweeties |
| I am desperately unoriginal | monkey_noise | 68 | 18 |
| the Erudite Baboon | erudite_baboon | 530 | 76 |
| Sex, Lies and Monkeys | RAGMonkey | 370 | 28 |
| Swindon Monkey | mkeen61267 | 0 | 0 |
| monkeydoo | monkeydoo | 7 | 2 |
| Monkeyland | monkeyland | 26 | 3 |
| Sonic_Death_Monkey | Sonic_Death_Monkey | 3 | 0 |
| angry monkey blog | angrymonkey | 0 | 0 |
| Little Yellow Monkeys | Leigh | 8 | 4 |
| Tales from a Monkey | Scubamonkey | 45 | 6 |
| Travellingmonkeys | Travellingmonkeys | 0 | 0 |
| MarsMonkey | MarsMonkey | 1 | 0 |
| joblessmonkey | joblessmonkey | 0 | 0 |
| noisy_monkey | noisy_monkey | 0 | 0 |
| Average of the above | 14 users | 75.6 | 9.8? |
| Not updated in last month? | 19 users | 14 | 2 |
| Average of all | 33 users | 32.5 | 4.2 |
Note - one or two of the above steadfastly refuse to appear on 20six weblog name or username searches. Perhaps the search database is not live but updated at intervals. Curiously, not a single 20six blog which I can find includes apes in either title or username.
Within the Blogshares.com animals industry, there are no fewer than 140 blogs listed under the monkeys sub-industry1. The next largest sub-industry, frogs, incorporates a mere 42.
So, the evidence, then, is incontrovertible. Monkeys, and one or two baboons, would appear to hold a compelling grip on the imaginations of bloggers. But why? This debate will have to wait (unless a reader would care to kick it off) since I am frankly shagged after all that HTML.
1neither are there any more. In fact, there are precisely 140.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 29th, 2003 at 11:46 PM and filed under Old stuff. Trackbacks are closed.
Right. It’s time Menace got out more. I have tried, but clearly I have not been up to this gargantuan task, despite thinking I had managed to tire him out from this sort of timewasting nonsense. Any takers? (Don’t answer that. I will kill you, believe me.)
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 7:05 am | Permalinkyou must cease this simian tomfoolery/fascination.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 6:05 pm | PermalinkAND I would further point out that I covered this subject exhaustively on August 17th. I believe we put the monkey-fascination down to a misguided American sense of humour.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 7:01 pm | PermalinkNB If someone doesn’t come along and say “Damn you…damn you all to HELL!” soon, I’ll be forced to do it myself.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 7:01 pm | PermalinkKate - I think that even you may be in the pay of the Pongoids.
I trust no-one. I’m not gibbon up on this one.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 7:04 pm | PermalinkI don’t mind the accusations of bribery and deceit, but punning really is beyond the pale.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 7:04 pm | PermalinkNBB Sorry about loitering around your blog. The heating’s bust in mine and it’s freezing over there.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 7:04 pm | PermalinkDamn you …. damn you all to HELL!
(was that okay KE?)
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 8:03 pm | PermalinkThanks, pog. Was getting a little antsy, there.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 8:03 pm | PermalinkWho is being damned to hell, and why? The monkeys? Me? Me AND the monkeys?
Wot??
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 9:00 pm | PermalinkHaven’t you seen Planet of the Apes, silly? The original??
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 9:00 pm | PermalinkOh, right. Course I have, but I don’t really bother with the words. Is that the bit where they see the fake statue of liberty placed there by the apes to freak them out?
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 9:02 pm | PermalinkEr…yeah, it’s that bit, sort of…
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 9:02 pm | Permalink*whispers - I don’t think he was paying attention to ANYTHING in that film, Ms Kate*
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 9:04 pm | PermalinkIt was monkey-overload, pog. I was kind of tranced-out.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 10:00 pm | Permalink…. Roddy Mcdowell as Cornelius - he’s never surpassed that role.
And I think it’s the only time I’ve ever seen him play a ‘goodie’.
Erm - you did know they weren’t real chimps, didn’t you menace?
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 10:05 pm | PermalinkIsn’t Roddy dead now?
NB I’m a little concerned that Menace has such detailed and intimate knowledge of monkey-blogs, but draws a blank on important aspects of popular culture like great lines from Charlton Heston films. You do wonder.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 11:00 pm | PermalinkSadly, yes he is.
And if you click on the ‘naked man’ link you’ll see a really crappily photoshopped picture that I think is supposed to be him …..
Yes, it is a bit worrying, isn’t it?
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 11:01 pm | PermalinkWhoa! No wonder he was such a popular fella…
Er, that site’s a bit stalky, isn’t it? I’m surprised at you, pog. Though I agree he WAS wonderful in Evil Under the Sun.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 11:02 pm | Permalink…. just typed his name into Google and that was the first site it came up with. And yes, it did seem more than a little sinister and creepy - but then Roddy had moments when he was like that in lots of films, so maybe it’s appropriate.
Gawd - that is just nonsense …. will leave it in to let you see what drinking too much red wine on a Wednesday night does to my thought processes.
Gah.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 11:03 pm | PermalinkDidn’t Roddy McDowell play for Glasgow Celtic? Or was that Andy MacDowell, or Andy McNab perhaps…
As for this Charlton Heston geezer, you don’t see him going round quoting my greatest lines, so I don’t see why I should return the favour.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 11:03 pm | PermalinkI think you’ll find Andi MacDowell is the shampoo-selling fencing lady on the telly (nooooo - sword-type fencing, not picket ….).
And not true. Only the other day he was heard to say:
“I am descended from skunks.”
Apparently.
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Posted on 30-Oct-03 at 11:04 pm | PermalinkNot real chimps!? I want my money back! But I think the Roxy had been knocked down and turned into a multi-storey car park now.
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Posted on 31-Oct-03 at 7:01 am | Permalink15, you forgot Infinite Monkeys (nickd).
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Posted on 03-Nov-03 at 5:00 am | PermalinkCorks, yer right. A shocking oversight. Would have upped the averages, too.
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Posted on 03-Nov-03 at 5:00 am | Permalink