Got monkeys?

Hello lemurs! I have found it. I didn't even know it was lost. Marketing works best when it suggests to you products or services that you didn't even know you needed!! LK can attest to this -- while we were in Staples Superstore (SUPERstore!) some weeks ago (ostensibly) shopping for wedding invitation kits (we're the doityourself couple, you know), I discovered quite to my surprise that there are any number of electronic gizmos, gadgets and whoosis's that I have been suffering without all these years. Suffering! Without knowing! Who knew? Certainly not me! Until now.

Now that's successful marketing. Now, I forget how I found it, or why I wound up googling the word monkey, but I have found it...MonkeyGoods.com! Not just 100 monkeys, no sir. Many more than that. This links to their online (downloadable!!) catalog replete with monkeyphernalia. I like that word that I just coined. And the best part, aside from the goofy products and their equally goofy descriptions (see below for some of my favorites) is the repeated and endlessly cumulatively amusing use of the word monkey. Monkey monkey monkey! Words with 'k' in close proximity to 'y'? Always funny. If it had been "Planet of the Monkeys," nobody would have taken them seriously. Nobody takes a monkey seriously....until it's too late. "Spooky monkey"? Not scary at all! (Monkey).

Anyway, here are some of my favorites (taking time from this endless report to enjoy the monkey catalog, but not that much time...)

Cast Iron Monkey Bottle Opener w/Fez With Fez!!! Because without the fez it would be really stupid. I love the first line of description: The next time someone asks for a bottle opener, don't just hand them some wimpy item from your kitchen drawer. Let a fez-topped simian do the trick. I like the implication that a fez-topped simian is somehow less wimpy than his fez-less (fez-free?) compatriots. Hard to associate a fez with a position of strength. (Words with 'z' in them, also always funny).

Screaming Chimpanzee ("chimpanzee" funnier than "chimp" because of the 'z' but not as funny as "monkey"). The description needs some editing but is funny anyway: You either love this sound making chimps [sic] or you go running from the room in fear. Screaming chimps are obviously a polarizing thing. Everyone knows that.

Okay, one more. Ceramic Sproing Monkey Oh dear: This little guy not only looks cool but jumps around on his own spring with the slightest vibration. Isn't that sort of obvious? Goodness knows he can't very well jump around on someone else's spring. That would be, um, just wrong.

I could do this all day but end of day promises must be kept. Go forth and monkey, lemurs.





posted by MT at 2:11 PM |