Our Monkeys

skyraider

Veteran Expediter
US Navy
This is a must read please











If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put the cold water away.

Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds.. that is the way it has always been!

This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time,

All of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.











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AMonger

Veteran Expediter
Now that Ron Paul's not running for re-election, there's no reason to not replace ALL of them.
 

Turtle

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Retired Expediter
There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
 

Brisco

Expert Expediter
Looking at thread title, I kinda thought this might have something to do with Obawa. Wasn't that far off with that thought....huh? :p

Anybody else see that the stock market took a HUGE plunge today just as the debt bill was on it's way to Obawas desk??

Hang on America...........the wheels just flew off the rollercoaster and we're ALL gonna need a few stitches here and there real soon..............
 

greg334

Veteran Expediter
I was waiting for the punchline - Rise of the planet of the grapes is opening this friday and I thought Sky was doing a promo bit for that.
 

Tennesseahawk

Veteran Expediter
The punchline is:

535 monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and bumped his head. They went to Obama, and Obama said, "Now stop monkeyin around, and pass me some stimulus! Eek eek!"

534 monkeys...

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The Barak Show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTv81A9bgg8
 
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