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Old 10-06-2009, 09:40 AM   #8519
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
hm... i hope i'm wrong, but i seem to remember that story ends very badly, doesn't it ? maybe pshrynk should enact something a little less epic and dangerous.
Gilligan's Island?

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baboons are scary. i've heard stories.
Oh, they're just pussycats really...you know pussycats?...will hunt you down?...shred your limbs?... all the while making noises that'd scare a ghoul back into the closet?

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm View Post
I read that in a totally inappropriate way (inappropriate for having to explain to my colleagues, yet again, why I was spluttering with laughter)
It was Adrian - it was possibly written in a totally inappropriate way. I've told you all before, he can't be trusted. (Okay, I've never told you that, but only because I can't be trusted, so if I told you, you wouldn't trust me and therefore would trust him, and he can't be trusted. See? No? Me, neither)

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Originally Posted by kazbates View Post
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At the Washington National Zoo, they have a series of thick cables that run about 35 feet off the ground (called the O Line) that the orangutans can swing across. The cables even run overtop a couple of the walking paths. The first time I saw one of the orangutans swinging across it, it kind of freaked me out! I kept asking my husband why the apes just didn't jump down and make a run for it.
Because they are orangutans. There is no primate more hip than an orangutan. When Adrian grows up he wants to be an orangutan. Ask them why they don't "make a run for it"...they'd just look at you with a grin and say "Nah, we're cool, baby", and then wink (except they'd say it in Bahasa Indonesian of course). You'd then somehow get the feeling that there was a "The only barriers are in your miiiind, duuuude" vibe coming from them, while simultaneously suspecting that there was a literal truth to that vibe, one which may involve some innate ability to fark with the laws of physics.

To put it more succinctly, in the words of The Great Old Man Of The Jungle, "OOK!"

Cheers,
Marc (Everything I know about orangutans I learned from the back of a packet of 2-minute-mee-goreng)
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