Will Apes Be Our Masters?

And so it begins.

Comments

[Franklin Harris]

A planet where apes evolved from men? What kind of upside-down world is this?

[Madog]

I just like the idea of a town where the residents mistook a wet monkey for a frenchman.

[Kevin Carson]

I've noticed that "Curious Charley, the Australopithecus," in the Tom the Dancing Bug cartoons, looks an awful lot like our glorious leader.

[Jim N]

Dave Barry says of a similar effort, "Hey why the hell not?"

[Tuning Spork]

I didn't laugh once--I was too confused and busy trying to figure out if it was a monkey or an ape. First it's a monkey, then it's a seven-foot fury ape. A seven-footer could only be a gorilla; hardly a creature anyone would mistake for a monkey. Monkey's are much smaller, have tails and are tree-dwellers. The largest monkey is the baboon; and it ain't no seven-footer. The piece made no sense. Damn I'm anal.

[Jesse Walker]

It was a person, Mr. Spork. Maybe this photograph will make the story clearer:

http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/mayor.shtml

[Anonymous]

A-HA!!! Thanks Jesse, now the line about Stuart Drummund aged 28...makes sense! The link didn't put it in any context. Mascots are usually--or, at least, used to usually be--live animals. I thought it was supposed to be some onion-style satire. My baffled irritation has been quelled.

[Bones]

(Yes, but obviously not the one with the pointy ears, Jim.)

ON MASCOTS: " ... used to be live animals"

Why do you suppose that is? Hmm? Ever heard of the Pitrecantiphus Erectus Tinnitus Americanus?

[Jim N]

Mr. Spork?