I'd just like to point out that certain writers are still very silly people.
Or maybe I mean again.
Here it is barely April Fool's Day and we've already had at least four monkey stories. I'm guessing there'll be a lot more in the next twenty-four hours.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. I mean, it is the year of the monkey and all.
(monkey!)
Perhaps there was some sort of a monkey anthology or something–
MonkeyCon!!!!
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Suddenly, I’m craving bananas…
And I suppose you would characterize what you usually get as “human stories”? Generalizations! Feh!
Personally, I’m looking forward to reading all these monkey stories. It’ll be a nice break from the usual types of stories we get throughout the year… you know, zombie unicorns and such.
zombie unicorns? those are so 15 seconds ago.
I hear carniverous ponies are the wave of the future.
Zeitgeist! ::hums ‘this is the dawning of the age of pan troglodytes’::
One should rarely pan troglodytes–they don’t take criticism well and tend to over-react.
::shakes head:: you silly, silly people.
I wonder if I can get up the energy to write a monkey story in 4 hours.
Nah.
😉
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a monkey story? A story that involves monkeys?
Charlie, it’s the only way to cook a troglodyte though. A little butter, and mmmm, that’s good pan-trog.
I have it on good authority that skilleting is more effective than panning.
bah. You get your gang of Chilean Kicking Ducks after those little whippersnappers. That’ll fix their hash.
I love it when a plan comes together.
So wait, y’all are saying that a gang of Chilean Kicking Ducks are going to pan-fry troglodyte hash for some little whippersnappers?
Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with conversations around here.
In other news, it seems clear to me that today’s theme song should be BNL’s Another Postcard (with Chimpanzees). At least thirteen monkey stories so far, and counting.
The mention of MonkeyCon reminds me that I’m not sure whether to update the page to be about 2005 or not. After all, the motto is “Next year at MonkeyCon.” Should the 2004 page be archived?
Jacob: Well, there’s a difference between stories that have monkeys in them and stories that are about being monkeys…. 🙂 Anyway, monkeys are certainly an underrepresented group in sf. (But no monkey marriages; that would be going too far.)
Simon: I’m afraid I haven’t read the stories yet, so I’ll have to leave that to the writers to explain.
The rest of you: See, Tempest even agrees that you’re silly. I rest my case.
*cough* there might be a monkey orgy
i’m just saying
Hannah: everything turns out better with a good skilleting.
Jed: Tempest is just jealous that she didn’t get a monkey story done in time. Besides, at least we didn’t take the cheater’s way out and send you our grocery lists.
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Dear Sirs:
Please consider my story, “Early Dinner at the Ape House” for consideration for your magazine.
Bananas
Purina Monkey Chow
Orangu-Tang
grapes
peanut butter
barely legal grooming videos
the complete works of H. A. Kaye
Poop-B-Gone
Classic Chimp Chill Out CD
The collected Edgar Rice Burroughs
Now see, i should have done that! Sent a monkey grocery list. Celia steals all the good ideas…
chance, might?
Wow. That’s overly pessimistic, don’t you think?
Sorry I missed this earlier exchange. I’ve had two monkey stories accepted for publication. The latest, a flash piece, was dedicated to Jay Lake.
Greg
What does it mean that, four days after you got all those monkey submissions, we published a story about a gorilla? 🙂
It means that Daniel Starr is ahead of his time. 🙂