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YSaC, Vol. 210: Keep on swimming, keep on swimming …

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Huge Blue Monkey perfect condition – $20

You have to have it your kids will love it. It’s over 2 feet tall! Here are some pics below. If you have any other questions just e-mail me at xxxx.xxxxx@yahoo.com

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That’s right, a huge blue monkey. Monkeys, as you know, are marsupials who live in the ocean. Their gills help them swing from tree to tree underwater. Their plush fur helps them survive in the Arctic jungles. Their diet consists mainly of tamales and Fun Dip, and they are world’s primary producer of elbow macaroni.

(Now, in all fairness, there is something called a Pacific Monkeyfish. It looks a little different than the one being advertised, though, so I don’t think that’s what’s causing the confusion here:)

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That’s not even a little bit cuddly.

I’m crediting this one to “D.L.”; they’ll know why.

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30 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 210: Keep on swimming, keep on swimming …”

  1. PrincessLuceval Avatar
    PrincessLuceval

    I think this person meant “Blue Meany,” like in the Beatles song. Or perhaps he/she was just high, and was seeing monkeys everywhere.

  2. drmk Avatar
    drmk

    The Blue Meanies were fist-things, though, not FISH-things.

    1. jg Avatar
      jg

      Hey! I just realized, this is a post from out Llama-nun (BBUH) before she took her solemn vows!

      I think.

      1. jg Avatar
        jg

        That was supposed to say “our”. I’d swear I changed that.

  3. Courtney Avatar
    Courtney

    Here’s what I think happened (this is the only explanation that will keep my head from imploding): Her kids have an oversized, blue menagerie of which they are getting bored, so she’s unloading the lot, creature by creature, and simply uploaded the picture of the giant blue FLOUNDER instead of the giant blue monkey. Please, God, tell me that is what happened.

    Either that or it’s some really weird allusion to evolution. A little shout-out to Darwin. Take the fish home, and in a few hundred thousand years, you’ll have a monkey.

  4. Monica Hamburg Avatar
    Monica Hamburg

    STILL not a lion. I mean, monkey.

  5. Rebecca_J Avatar
    Rebecca_J

    LOL. I think your commentary is more than “adequate.”

  6. Lorelie Avatar
    Lorelie

    Assuming that she really did some how mistake a flounder for a monkey, if that thing’s actually 2 foot tall, that means her baseboards are a foot high. WTF?

  7. dogface Avatar
    dogface

    Awww, give them a break. All my monkeys have fins on them.

  8. Anonie-Moose Avatar
    Anonie-Moose

    Just so you know, the line from the movie is “Just keep swimming” not “Keep on swimming”.

    Maybe the person just mixed up the photos?

  9. CoffDrop Avatar
    CoffDrop

    Five little fishes were swimming near the shore;
    One took a dive and then there were four.
    Four little fishes were swimming out to sea;
    One went for food, and then there were three.
    Three little fishes, “Now what shall we do?”
    One swam away, and then there were two.
    Two little fishes were having great fun;
    But one took a plunge, then there was one.
    One little fish, “I’ll dress up like a monkey.”
    Well, he did and then it got funky.

    Hope everyone gets to enjoy a pleasant 3-day weekend

    ::now where did I put that cap to the Cuervo bottle::

  10. LimeLolly Avatar
    LimeLolly

    “I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy” – Dory

    1. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      LL, next time you get the urge to change avies, Dora would be a good one. 8)

      1. LimeLolly Avatar
        LimeLolly

        Dora the Explorer or Dory the fish?

        1. Windrose Avatar
          Windrose

          oops. Dory fish. The sea monkey stole my money.

  11. Sister Lyle Avatar
    Sister Lyle

    Just keep snarking, just keep snarking, just keep snarking, snarking, snarking…

  12. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Huge Blue Monkey perfect condition
    [Y]our kids will love it.
    It’s over 2 feet tall!

    Sparky says these three things. I say, each of them, they are fishy.

  13. HamCan Avatar
    HamCan

    It’s a sea monkey, duh…

    1. Dave and Ferret Tribe Avatar
      Dave and Ferret Tribe

      [aquarist Corey] Brine shrimp Sea monkeys aren’t even a little bit cuddly either, unless of course you’re an angelfish and by “cuddly” you mean “delicious.”

      1. SilvaNoir Avatar
        SilvaNoir

        Never understood sea monkeys. Hey kids, look, tiny bug-like things in water you can see with a magnifying glass and look not one bit like monkeys!

  14. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    I’ll buy a blue monkey, without you.
    He’ll be so blue, just thinking about you.
    With his fins edged in gold
    on a blue fish-shaped bod.
    He’s just as messed up
    as Sparky! Oh My Gohd!

    Sorry, it’s Saturday, it’s early, and I already need a nap. Carry on!

    1. CoffDrop Avatar
      CoffDrop

      Beautiful, Windy. Elvis is always appropriate…….

  15. camille Avatar
    camille

    I feel much better knowing where the elbow macaroni comes from. Thanks, o wise and beneficent Llamanun, BBUY.

  16. nonsensicalcat Avatar
    nonsensicalcat

    Ah, the elusive fish-monkey. This rare species resides in the jungles of Asia. He has evolved over millions of years to have the ability to disguise himself as a giant blue fish. Unlike most evolutionary leaps, this ability has actually backfired– instead of keeping the monkey safe from predators, it has actually increased the species’ death rate tenfold. Experts believe this is due to the fact that a giant blue fish in a tree is much more easily spotted than a brown monkey.

  17. Artsy Computer Geek Avatar
    Artsy Computer Geek

    I thought a Blue Monkey was an adult beverage.

  18. SilvaNoir Avatar
    SilvaNoir

    But is it funky?

  19. Spaceman.Spiff Avatar
    Spaceman.Spiff

    Speechless.
    But, it also might be the first day in 60± that will not be 100º or more.

  20. ToBScholarly Avatar
    ToBScholarly

    Monkey.
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  21. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    IF and GC. You can come out of the box now. Punchity Punch Punch!

    G’Night, True Science.

  22. Karmyn Avatar
    Karmyn

    I was hoping to get Funky Monkey’s opinion on this one.

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