I judge them with a small clay pipe in one hand and a schooner of sherry in the other; if pleased, I tap my pipe twice on my knee and utter the magic words, "You please me, Splendid Monkey and for this, you may enter my Gallery."*
This afternoon, a strange communication appeared in my inbox; a monkey so splendid I stopped breathing for up to and including ten seconds. "What is this?", I gasped, turning to the Mysterious Note that accompanied the submission. It was entitled "A tragic monkey for your collection", and read as follows:
"It's not funny though. It's terribly sad."
The note was from one Olivia, and said nothing else! Olivia, you are wrong; the picture is entirely funny, and also slightly strange (not to mention small!). More to the point, it led to the immediate expostulation of the words "You please me, Splendid Monkey and for this, you may enter my Gallery!", and a frantic tapping of pipe on knee.
It only remains for me to say: Congratulations, Olivia!
* Should you wish to see past submissions, entering the search terms "Splendid Monkey Gallery" into the search box above will show you all splendid monkeys in my gallery. Some of them are really bad, which makes them even more splendid.
5 comments:
What lovely stamps, much prefer them to HRH's
Ah yes! More of that here. Above pic arrived from there via Boing Boing via me via Olivia. I also have a large number of monkeys; sadly, they are far too small to see.
You are a sick monkey. That robot could be eating a relative. But I'm glad to have provoked such clay pipe tapping agitation. Did I not even sign the note? How very rude - I can only claim extreme exhaustion.
Robots eat monkeys? Well, that's my new thing for today learned.
Maybe they taste like chicken.
NWM: When will there be another Ask MonkeyMother post?
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