More evidence you can’t be a civilized country and have monkeys running around. Who can respect the leader of a country who get regularly urinated on by monkeys? As much as people like to say political debate is low brow in this country, at least our politicians aren’t used a lavatories for lesser primates. We don’t have this problem in America because once a monkey peed on Benjamin Franklin. Big mistake. That guys is nuts. Right on the spot he invented the shotgun and went to slaughter all the monkeys in North America and you still can’t find one here to this day. And now America is the most powerful country in the world.
Is this what is meant by “Truith to power”?
He would have shot the monkey, but then who would write their next stimulus package? OH NO I DINT!!!
I can’t believe I’m disagreeing with FrnakJ but…….
Would you rather he was friends with monkeys?
Being peed on by a monkey is sorta like being picketed by Al Sharpton, attacked by Andrew Sullivan or hated by PETA, it’s a badge of honor.
I wish I had mad p-shop skills, I would do a “Peed on by monkeys” award and you would have to post it.
Muwahahahahahahahahahaha.
Step 1. Get photoshop.
Step 2. Learn photoshop.
Step 3. Profit!
It is said that humans share about 98% of their DNA with chimpanzees. However, I suspect that in some areas of the world, not to mention many American universities, the difference is practically non-existant!
FrankJ, I wish you were my history teacher when I was little.
Is Franklin planning on rising from the grave and shooting the pack of monkeys currently residing in the White House?
Maybe that should be our new foreign policy, if you can’t keep lower primates from peeing on/killing your politicians, then you can’t get those free parking passes they give out in New York.
There is a spank the monkey comment in here somewhere, but decorum and respect for the mighty FrankJ and SarahK prevents me. This ISN’T dumbasscrat underground.
Angry urinating monkeys? Now what are the libs protesting?
Benjamin Franklin is best known for inventing lightning, the bicentennial, and the pot-bellied pig.
“Monkey” ?
RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!!!
At the close of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep [the monkeys out of] it.”
Well, the difference would be that here it’s the administration that throws poo and plays with itself in public, while over there it’s wild animals that do so.
And now America is the most powerful country in the world.
thanks to obama it’s now…..was the most powerful
Monkeys and Civility: Uncivil monkeys urinate indiscriminately, and fling poo. Civil monkeys get out their Monkey Wrenches and bludgeon their adversaries to death.
The phrase, “more fun than a barrel of monkeys”, was one of Ben Franklin’s sayings in Poor Richard’s Almanac. This was derived from the Monkey Fun Barrel that Ben invented. Similar in concept to his ‘Roach Motel’ invention, monkeys went in the barrel for fun, but they never checked out. The barrel was rolled into the Schuykill River. The Schuy Monkey has been extinct since about 1730; coincidence? I think not.
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I can tell several of y’all are yankee’s. Everyone else knows Davy Crockett killed the monkeys.
I, as a Pennsylvanian, cannot let such an allegation stand against Mr. Franklin, Chuck. With all due respect to Mr. Crockett (Got to respect a man who once wrestled and killed a black bear with a Bowie knife), Benjamin Franklin did exactly what Frank J. stated above. He also invented the internet but thought future generations would find it funnier if he allowed Al Gore to claim that he created it.
MarkoMancuso, where are you in PA?
Near Gettysburg, #17.
Make that #18. Darn you, comment moderation!
I’m over here, by York
Damm Yankee’s! Stonewall Jackson marched right past my house with Daniel Boone where they fought the battle of Front Royal……. and then Daniel Boone went off on his monkey hunt. Twernt no wig wearing Boston Boy dun nothin in the woods.
Daniel Boone fought that pompous gasbag Nathaniel P. Banks at Front Royal? I was unaware of that. I am, however, sure that he was born and raised in Berks County, PA.
Anyway, thanks, TerribleTroy. Learn something new everyday.
Glad to know that I’m not the only fellow from South Central PA on here, cjtony. 😉