[Banana]

I was watching Simpsons where Homer and Bart "borrows" Mr. Burns yacht and have a party with every riff raffs.

They mock coast guard and Homer says,

"I envy those who will never know the simple joy of a monkey knife fight."

This tickled my curiousity and wondered if some other countries actually hold this as a sport. So I googled and to my surprise, got this http://www.missouri-miner.com/media/...t-407526.shtml and Simpsons wasn't even in my google search!

Though my original question hasn't been answered yet,

Happy reading!

[ghoti]

Did you notice that that story was published on April 1, 2003?

[Banana]

Did you notice that it wasn't what my search was for?

I thought it was funny, considering that it was coming from Simpsons.

[Wrao]

Wait... how many monkey butlers will there be?

[curiousuburb]

Some people work with a bunch of monkeys

[BuonRotto]

Mr Burns: "This is one hundred monkeys typing at a one hundred typewriters - soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man....[picks up paper and reads]...it was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?!!?! You stupid monkey!"

Monkey: Ooh! Ooh! Ah!

[Moogs]

You guys ever been to Rolla, Missouri? I'm not surprised this is where the students actually decided to create a Monkey Knife fight....

[Banana]

If there was actually a knife fight.... There's problem of how to take knife from the victorious monkey after the fights over. As discussed, older chimps are nasty bastard more than capable of ripping off a mans balls and foot with bare hands.

I still do wonder if its actually a real sport, like cockfighting or bullfight and the like. I'm also told that in certain region of Asia, they'd chain a live monkey ro a table with his head pkoing out of the top, cut off the head, so peopled eat monkeys brain while monkey is alive. but I think that's a load of bull.

[BuonRotto]

I hear they slaughter cows alive too.

Well, the monkey could have been alive at the start of something like that, but something tells me it probably didn't live through the scalping part, and certainly not beyond the eating-the-brain part in any case.

[Moogs]

Mmmm. Monkey brains.

So, if you were time-warped into a dining room or restaurant someplace where -like in the movies- some rich creep was scooping brains out of a monkey-skull-shaped boiling pan.... would you kill him with your bare hands... or dig in?

[curiousuburb]

Knives are one thing... but don't let them get their furry fingers on lasers!

And whatever you do, avoid the Mecha Kong

Or add them to CONGO.

[curiousuburb]

"No one cry when Jaws die," Dino says, his voice rising in passion as he develops his theme. "But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. Intellectuals gonna love Konk; even film buffs who love the first Konk gonna love ours. Why? Because I no give them crap. I no spend two, three million to do quick business. I spend 24 million on my Konk. I give them quality. I got here a great love story, a great adventure. And she rated PG. For everybody." Dino de Laurentiis - to Time Magazine. Excerpted here

[Moogs]

konk... I like that.