Talking Chimp Gives Press Conference

Here’s an enormously funny piece from The New Yorker, which imagines a talking monkey giving his first press conference:

I feel like I have to take a dump right now.

But instead of speaking about the similarities between humans and—

Ahh. That’s better. Dump taken. Where was I?

Similarities. Right. But instead of speaking about similarities I’d like to take this time to–

I’m sorry, you people in the first few rows. Apparently, my dump somehow offends you? Perhaps if I gather it up and fling it at you, you’ll think twice next time before you wrinkle your dinky noses at my healthy and natural exudate. Is that what I should do? Because it’s very easy. All I have to do is scoop it up like this and–

I’m fortunate enough to be on a private email list with a bunch of really smart people who regularly find cool things. I occasionally blog about them. This is one such case. Usually there’s no one I can credit, but fortunately Andrew has a photojournal.

Being in the marketing business, this article amused me more than it should have.