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Medium-sized alloyed statuette of chalk-black monkey. Swipe credit card through slot at monkey's base whenever so desired; and monkey will rotate and render fine orchestral music (whilst debiting your card) to inform you of your saving.
Few outlets support monkey-relieving - so it is hard to give
up your golden savings, as it should be.
Soon monkey will allow enough to buy stereo.
Maybe only in bookstores. I don't know.
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This is cool. I mean... credit card scanner things now just lack that certain, je ne sais pas.... A black african voodoo monkey would be much cooler. You should do this. Or I should. Actually, I should do this. You should get a job at McDonalds while I get rich. I don't know about the spinning and music though. I'm thinking.... His eyes light up, and he laughs a really deep, crazy laugh. "Bwa ha ha ha ha" |
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It seems very odd that this should be so popular while some of eehen's other suggestions were quickly fishboned (though not by me; I am sincerely a great admirer of his two-week Halfbakery career). Do people just like monkeys? This must be the solution. |
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Beats me, I didn't vote either way on this one (although I too enjoyed Eehen's meanderings here and on his website).
Would any of the credit card monkey's supporters care to share their pleasure with us? |
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I can't speak for the other voters, but unlike most of eehens other stuff, this one touched a nerve with me. It reminded me of the displays in the shop window of a toy store in Bochum that would start to move when I pressed my then very small hand against a specially marked area in the window; the mechanical theatre down in the basement of Covent Garden, London; half-mechanical arcades in an empty sea resort. I like those images and memories. |
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I also think that all we get out of life is the spectacle of it; a rotating, tune-playing monkey to the swipe of my credit card is a sharp and fitting summary. |
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I like the balance of one immediate indulgence against another. |
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I don't particularly care for a *monkey*, myself, but I'm sure the particular statues would get replaced and Fimo'd and bestickered and generally modified to meet local tastes and obsessions. |
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[unabubba] Funny!...not really.
what about personalized ones? like a scissors at a barbershop (these could also be used to automatically cut up bad credit cards, like in the movies) |
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I am giving this long-lost idea a bun for the simple reason that the syntax of the sentences is absolutely classic. |
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A monkey's paw might be more fitting. |
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