The Monkey Exhibit

2004: Chinese Year of the Monkey. What exaclty does that mean? Will monkeys overrun China this year? Will the greatest ideas and innovations come from Chinese primates?
Will the Chinese finally admit this year that their leaders look a bit lemur-ish? Could this mean, instead, that a great drug addiction [...]

We don’t know who thought up the nutty idea to call today Squirrel Appreciation Day, but since we’ve been gathering information on those furry rodents for some time, today seems the right time to pass along our nuggets of knowledge.
For starters, although there are plenty of critters known as squirrels—ranging from the giant Malabar [...]

A professor based in Oklahoma contacted us about a phrase he wasn’t certain was local: “I’ll be there if the good Lord’s willing and the Monkeys don’t rise.” He was curious about whether the Monkeys mentioned refer to (as he put it) “a desperate desire for or addiction to drugs (often used in the phrase [...]

Northeast: Cold. Chance of multiple forms of precipitation.
Northwest: Wet. Chance of sun.
Southeast: Ice, Snow. Chance of power outages.
Southwest: Dry. Chance of sandstorm.
Midwest: Rugged. Chance of pioneers.
Lambeau Field: Arctic Tundra. If not all-out blowout, then chance of comeback.
Gotham: Riddled. If you keep an eye out, you may see a Robin, followed by Batman in the evening.

My main testimony, the one that I should have matured by but am still struggling against goes like this:
When I was a young chap, my grandfather used to bring me and my cousins to church every week. Our parents, his children, had nothing at all to do with God, except for my uncle who [...]

Hi. My name is Roger. If you found your way here, you probably already know that. This is more of a place to entertain myself and my friends than a place that some will web surf to. That being said, you probably don’t need to know much about me from this website, either. I will [...]

Qwert Yuppy is NOT some guy who is lazy and just made his name from the top alphabetical row of the keyboard!
Qwert Yuppy is NOT “a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city” (be that your personal definition of “Yuppie” or [...]