Where’s the monkey?

A monkey from Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center is missing. They don’t know where it is. Some think it could be hiding in the research facility, or on the facility property. Others think it could be running wild in Lawrenceville, Georgia. But nobody knows.

It could be that it’s found a job and won’t be returning.

I know what you’re thinking: everybody that voted for Obama is a moron. And you’d be right. But about the missing monkey from Emory, you might also be thinking “What kind of job could a monkey do?”

Well, there are plenty of jobs that a monkey could do. Or do as well as those doing the jobs today. Such as:

  • Advising Obama on the economy
  • Working as a news anchor for MSNBC
  • Global Warming researcher
  • Writing for Daily Kos
  • American Idol judge
  • Newt Gingrich campaign staffer
  • Green Energy Czar
  • Windows programmer
  • Dictator of Cuba

What else could the missing monkey be doing?

32 Comments

  1. * Jury member in Illinois. “I really wanted to say not guilty, but I just couldn’t.”
    * Journalist
    * Coffee-fetcher for Barack Obama
    * Irish coffee-fetcher for Joe Biden
    * Pop music songwriter

  2. What else could the missing monkey be doing?

    * Apple programmer supervised by Basil.
    * Conducting research on humans.
    * Entertaining Buttercup.
    * Bugging Frank who posts a single non-random thought!

  3. Jimmy:
    If your talking about iMovie Pro Final Cut Pro X, I’d have to agree that it’s not what it should be. But be honest: many many Windows applications work like an escaped monkey from Atlanta programmed them.

  4. Any programmer in any language!
    An Engineer from Carnigie Mellon Smarty Pants University! Just give him a pocket protector and he’s golden!
    Obama’s Speech Writer
    TOTUS Operator
    Any sitting Senator
    Any sitting Congressman or Woman
    Any sitting Federal Judge
    Any head of any Federal Agency
    Head of final program walk through’s at Microsoft
    Head of Fix Packs final review at Microsoft
    Head of customer service staff at Microsoft

  5. Jimmy, I’m a Project Manager. We are the guys that take the blame when the programmers hose everything up! But I’m way ahead of the game in my projects. I build in slippage for programmer extra special time needed to debug and get their stupid code correct! Then we test in IT, Unit and UAT before we allow them to slam into PROD to see who squeals “the programmers preferred methodology”…

    Then I turn it over to the System Admins and I’m outta there being a hired gun or Contractor!!!

  6. This is a bogus story. They’ve most likely already figured out that he’s been masquerading as a professor at their university. However, releasing that information may shed light on the fact that most of their faculty is masquerading as professors.

  7. I’m pretty sure the monkey is in charge of the TSA diaper checkers division
    Also, the monkey had to have made the decision to sell guns to Mexican drug gangs so they could shoot ATF agents! That was a sweet call!

  8. Careful, Troy — what you and your monkey agree to do in the privacy of your own home is your own business but turning that into a “job” is illegal. Plus, spanking your monkey is animal abuse in many states. That’s why in Soviet Russia, they have your monkey spank you. Because you don’t count.

    Everybody here seems to be imagining some sort of super-monkey. Are the Yerkes doing crazy brain switching experiments with monkeys like in that one episode of Quantum Leap? Because given your average Macaca mulatta (i.e. rhesus monkey), the only thing she could really do is act or possibly direct. Hollywood is where they should be looking.

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