Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
A couple of months ago, I blogged about the auctioning of the naming rights a newly discovered species of Bolivian titi monkey, hoping that one of you dear readers would pony up the cash to name it after me. Surprisingly, none of you cheapskates came through. Obviously, you just don't love me that much, since the winning bid was just a measly $650,000. I ended that post by musing that the monkey would "probably end up being called Microsoft Monkey XP."
I wasn't far off the mark.
A statement from [online casino] GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe suggested the company was looking for a publicity-generating investment more enduring than an item it paid $28,000 for in another online auction last year: a 10-year-old, partly eaten cheese sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary.
"This species will bear our name for as long as it exists," Rowe said. "Hundreds, even thousands of years from now, the GoldenPalace.com Monkey will live to carry our name through the ages."
The GoldenPalace.com monkey, one of about 30 species of titi monkeys found in South America, has a golden crown and a white-tipped tail. Its formal name will be Callicebus aureipalatii — Latin for "golden palace."
Don't be surprised in a few years when Notre Dame and Michigan State are playing in the GoldenPalace.com Monkey Bowl.
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Someone should have paid for the naming rights, and named it the "Spank The" Monkey. That'd be great!
Posted by: at April 14, 2005 01:47 PMMate
It's not that we don't love you, but after holding the garage sale flogging off all the smiley face T-shirts we could spare and all the CD's and tapes that played funny, and that table that kept collapsing - you know, all the good stuff - we put a bid in for $AU38.50. For some reason the answer back was hahahahah.
The upside is we got a new copy of Civilization Phaze 3, which we'll listen to while watching O'Reilly with the sound turned down. And all the while, we'll be thinking of you.