I was reading up on Penn & Teller a little bit and came across the Wikipedia article for Penn's old radio show. I was just kind of browsing it, when the story of a regular segment called Monkey Tuesday caught my eye. If I may steal and condense from Wikipedia --
"Monkey Tuesday originated when Penn told a story of a party...where he had invited Tarzan, a performing chimpanzee and Arturo, a dwarf, forgetting that chimpanzees fight for dominance with people of small stature. Penn worked out a compromise: Tarzan and Arturo could both be at the party as long as they were in separate rooms. As an added measure of security, Penn and a posse of attendees armed themselves with knives.
"Monkey Tuesday originated when Penn told a story of a party...where he had invited Tarzan, a performing chimpanzee and Arturo, a dwarf, forgetting that chimpanzees fight for dominance with people of small stature. Penn worked out a compromise: Tarzan and Arturo could both be at the party as long as they were in separate rooms. As an added measure of security, Penn and a posse of attendees armed themselves with knives.
However, Tarzan and Arturo met poolside and predictably, Tarzan charged Arturo. Rather than jump into the swimming pool as planned as chimps hate water (Chimps, lacking buoyant body fat, sink like rocks in water), Arturo hauled ass into Penn's house. Tarzan pursued Arturo but got distracted by the other guests. The guests shuttled the chimp into various rooms to allow Arturo to move around, and later found Arturo a tall bar stool to stand on. Tarzan, confused, decided not to challenge."
Are. You. Kidding. Me.
I had NO idea about this but think this is kind of awesome! It's like when you invite a couple to your party, and then you realize they just broke up 2 weeks ago. You want them both to be there and you hope there won't be problems but you know there will be. I was relating this story to The Wife and before I got too far into it, she said to me, "We are not having a party at our house where you invite both a chimpanzee and a midget."
Dammit. She knows me way too well.
Are. You. Kidding. Me.
I had NO idea about this but think this is kind of awesome! It's like when you invite a couple to your party, and then you realize they just broke up 2 weeks ago. You want them both to be there and you hope there won't be problems but you know there will be. I was relating this story to The Wife and before I got too far into it, she said to me, "We are not having a party at our house where you invite both a chimpanzee and a midget."
Dammit. She knows me way too well.
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