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Inside the monkeysphere - ntype - 05-24-2007

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html?repost

Picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if you wish. We'll call him Slappy.

Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey adventures and maybe even join up to fight crime. You'd be sad if Slappy died, wouldn't you?

Now, imagine you get five more monkeys. Tito, Bubbles, Fluffy, Marcel and ShitTosser. Imagine personalities for each of them. Maybe one is aggressive, one is affectionate, one is distant and quiet. And so on. They're all your personal monkey friends.

Now imagine a hundred monkeys. Then a thousand.

How long until you can't tell them apart? Or remember their names? At what point, in your mind, do your beloved pets become just a faceless sea of monkey? If you get enough monkeys, you'll eventually have enough that you no longer even care if one of them dies.

Now, each of these monkeys is every bit the monkey that Slappy was. It's just that you don't give a rat's ass any more.

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Inside the monkeysphere - who - 05-24-2007

Quit monkeying around

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Inside the monkeysphere - Sassy - 05-24-2007

who Wrote:Quit monkeying around

OK I'll try not to do monkeying around so much.

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Inside the monkeysphere - snarg - 05-24-2007

you'll still want to slap the monkey
just sayin'

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Inside the monkeysphere - who - 05-24-2007

Things could be worse, he could be posting about monkeys.




Oh wait

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Inside the monkeysphere - ntype - 05-24-2007

:mc:

not to mention that lately I went through an awful lot of interesting stories about monkeys.

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