She looked over his shoulder
For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had put instead
An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead.

A plain without a feature, bare and brown,
No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood,
Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down,
Yet, congregated on its blankness, stood
An unintelligible multitude,
A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Monkey humor

So here's a question. Chimps on TV are always funny. Always. They don't even have to do anything especially funny. In the video below, the best moments are just when the chimp is sitting there with some random object grinning like an idiot (or doing that weird stick-shaking thing that apparently they all learned from 2001: A Space Odyssey).



So what I'm wondering is this. Are these guys trained to act in a particular way that humans find amusing? Or, like videos of guys's getting hit in the balls, are chimps just inherently funny?
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Anonymous said...

Haha, thanks for sharing the video. Was hilarious. Your posts are interesting. I just might be back! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I can, with the utmost confidence, assure you that you are NOT The Scientist. He would never keep a blog. :)

Em

January 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM

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