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...porcupine for $100, which is about $98.75 more than any porcupine that can't play God Bless America on the musical goose-horns is worth. He sells an ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime a dozen," says a professional cat man. "Everybody's got too many lions...
...Fred Muggs would appreciate that there is still plenty of monkey business on the sets in the morning...
...shortest. Physical education is a graded course and each year a cadet is required to run the obstacle course. They call it the O.C. in public, "the suck" in private: cadets must do a belly crawl for 20 feet, jump a gymnastic horse, climb one wall, do the monkey bars, go feet first through a tire, do the parallel bars, leap another wall, take more monkey bars, climb a rope, carry a medicine ball around a 1/12 of a mile track, do the same with a baton and run a final half-lap. All in three minutes and 41 seconds...
Acting against the best counsel of Chuck Berry - "Want me to marry, get a home/ Settle down, write a book/ Too much monkey business!" - publishers have been doing a brisk trade in books about rock. Two recent ones - George Harrison's I Me Mine and No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fisheyed life of the late Jim Morrison - have only rock in common. The Morrison opus, which has remained high on the trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs...
Meanwhile, from St. Louis, comes word that the singer himself is no longer heeding his song. Disregarding his own cautions, and no man to buck a trend, Chuck Berry is writing a book. An autobiography. What happened to monkey business...