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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: Pigmeat on December 30, 2015, 0723 UTC
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Have any of you folks heard anything about a troop of wild monkey's taking over a State Park and residential neighborhoods near Ocala, FL? I've heard the troop may be led by a member of this board once nicknamed "The Humanzee". Nutria and muskrats are said to be fleeing the area, using KFC's as makeshift refugee camps. KFC has issued a simple "No comment."
Could some of you internet mavens check it out for me? Thanks!
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KFC taking in the small mammals with short, meaty legs? Thats like letting the fox guard the hen house.
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Mmm... I like monkeys.
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Pigmeat,
below an articel from the Miami New Times released on Tuesday, December 29, 2015.
Looks like your are onto something big.
I would avoid KFC for the next several Month as a pricousion...
Wouldn't it be great to be Tarzan? You'd have great abs and hang out with wild monkeys all the time. Maybe more realistically, you could at least get rid of those love handles and live in a place where you could occasionally see monkeys out in the wild going about their monkey business.
Well, we have news that might at first seem good. Biologists believe that a small wild monkey population in Central Florida is not only growing but also expanding its habitation area.
Now the bad news: The monkeys might be harmful to humans. (Less relevant but still disappointing: This news has no actual repercussions for the structure of your midsection, but good luck with those new year's resolutions.)
According to the Orlando Sentinel, a population of rhesus macaque monkeys has called the Silver Springs State Park in Ocala home for decades. The monkey's ancestry dates to the 1930s, when a man who ran a riverboat tour company decided to drum up business by buying a pack of monkeys and putting them on an island in Silver Springs. What this man apparently didn't realize is that monkeys are capable of swimming, and swim they did. Soon they expanded to the nearby woods.
Historical estimates of the population aren't exact, but between 1978 and 2012, the State of Florida allowed a trapper to capture the monkeys in the area. The trapper then sold them to medical research facilities. In all, 772 monkeys were captured that way.
Naturally, people got uncomfortable with the idea of the monkeys being sold into animal testing, so the practice was stopped.
University of Florida biologists now estimate that 200 monkeys live there. Sightings of the monkeys in human populated areas are also on the rise. In fact, some monkeys have now been spotted in recent months in Lady Lake and the Villages, which are about 20 miles south of the state park.
"I suspect that there are some monkeys that have spread out of the national forest, and it's not unreasonable to think they've gone down to Lake Griffin," biologist Bob Gottschalk told the Sentinel. "Once you get that far south, you get into Lake County."
That's cute and all, but the monkeys can carry the herpes-B virus, which can be deadly to humans. However, transmission from a free-range wild monkey to humans has never been documented. Then again, this is Florida — weirder things have happened. Be careful if you spot one of the primates. You aren't actually Tarzan. (But, hey, don't be afraid to check out gym memberships. There are a lot of great deals this time of year.)
Source: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/floridas-wild-monkey-population-is-growing-which-is-less-cute-than-it-sounds-8141388
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Hmmm...I seem to be lost here...is this the WDDR request thread? ??? Hey, Drunken DJ, how about "Monkey Man"-Rolling Stones? I'd like to dedicate it to Robin the sultry voiced vixen that got the voices in my head all riled up back on New Years Eve.... :-*
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lmfao Skipmuck ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D
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Hmmm...I seem to be lost here...is this the WDDR request thread?
"Hey Skipmuck...What's Happening?"
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I have liquidated two large mice, i.e. rodents, in the past few days.
(That's not the Revolution which I am supporting...)
Long live the monkeys! Let me know when they overrun Titusville FL (a counter-invasion which is long overdue) !
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You have not much future here. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.
I have liquidated two large mice, i.e. rodents, in the past few days.
(That's not the Revolution which I am supporting...)
Long live the monkeys! Let me know when they overrun Titusville FL (a counter-invasion which is long overdue) !
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Uuuhhhh..., what kinda "lift" we talkin' about?
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Oh where oh where has my doggone dog gone oh where oh were can he be???
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Ver in die Wereld, Kittie?
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You have not much future here.
I remember someone else screeching much the same thing, about four and a half years ago...
and we can all see how right he was about that!
When I think of all the worries
That people seem to find
And how they're in a hurry
To complicate their minds
By chasing after money
And dreams that can't come true
I'm glad that we are different
We've better things to do
May others plan their future
I'm busy loving you
One, two, three, four
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
(Hey, hey, hey)
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
And don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
Live for today
We were never meant to worry
The way that people do
And I don't need to hurry
As long as I'm with you
We'll take it nice and easy
And use my simple plan
You'll be my lovin' woman
I'll be your lovin' man
We'll take the most from living
Have pleasure while we can
Two, three, four
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
(Hey, hey, hey)
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
And don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
Live for today
Baby, I need to feel you inside of me
I got to feel you deep inside of me
Baby, please come close to me
I got to have you now, please
Please, please
Gimme some-a loving
Gimme some-a loving
To gimme some-a loving
To gimme some-a loving
Baby, gimme some-a loving
Gimme some-a loving
Got to have all your loving
Gimme some-a loving
I need all your loving
Give me some love now
I need all your loving
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
(Hey, hey, hey)
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
And don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
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TNX JP... luv dat song eh?
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I have liquidated two large mice, i.e. rodents, in the past few days.
(That's not the Revolution which I am supporting...)
Long live the monkeys! Let me know when they overrun Titusville FL (a counter-invasion which is long overdue) !
More telling info on the rodent movement and their acts of cyber terrorism. We're onto you varmints....
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/squirrels-mobilize-plot-acts-cyber-terrorism-against-humankind (http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/squirrels-mobilize-plot-acts-cyber-terrorism-against-humankind)
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Written on the bathroom wall:
Here I sit
Broken Hearted
paid my quarter
and only pharted