{"id":36662,"date":"2018-09-23T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36662"},"modified":"2018-09-03T19:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:27:40","slug":"qotd-buggered-up-a-perfectly-good-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/09\/23\/qotd-buggered-up-a-perfectly-good-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: “Buggered up a perfectly good monkey”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[The title] is a somewhat sanitised version of a punchline to an Internet meme I saw sometime back, which (if I remember correctly) goes something like this:<\/p>\n

GOD: “Behold! I have created Mankind!”
\nAngel: “You [deleted]-up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. Look at him — he’s got anxiety!”<\/p>\n

The meme goes on for a bit, and ends with the angel begging God to turn Man back in to a monkey.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, the punchline kind of stuck in my head — apparently it’s weird in there — and I have found that it is a wonderful comment for the occasions when “WTF?! Really?! W.T.F?!” just won’t do.<\/p>\n

As a for instance, let us say you are observing a scene in which several laws of physics have been violated in a way only possible by a combination of an overabundance of hormones divided by an under-appreciation of mortality. Fire that is guaranteed to not be possible is possibly occurring, and something — probably important — is in a physical location that there is no sodding way for that something to be in. The young — they’re always young these days — person responsible is standing in front of you, twiddling their fingers in such a way as to suggest that the report that is about to cross your desk is going to be one of the more impressive works of speculative fiction\/nitwittery you will read since … well, the last one … lacking only in the mention of the beer that someone was holding during the entire episode.<\/p>\n

I find that glaring at the responsible party over your glasses, then performing a Migraine Salute while gritting out, “Yeee-up. Cocked-up a perfectly good monkey” manages to be completely apropos, yet just profane enough to properly convey my feelings on such occasions.<\/p>\n

LawDog, “Because esoteric makes me warm and fuzzy”, The LawDog Files<\/em><\/a>, 2016-12-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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