Two Dozen Monkeys Flee Research Center

Set Up Group Blog, Receive Link From Glenn Reynolds--
Initial Exposure Leads to Formation of U.S. Fastest Growing Marketing Firm

COVINGTON, La. - Two dozen monkeys escaped from a research center and holed up in a forest, where animal-control workers used bananas and oranges to try to lure them out.

The leader of the troupe, 768-H (who prefers to be called Mr. Binky), stated that the bananas and oranges were tempting, but the opportunity to explore new marketplace synergies related to the post-Internet boom economy of the late-20th century was too much to pass up. "With the decentralized nature of running a group blog, we hoped to be able to maximize our exposure and gain some exciting insights on processes and interactions."

(A "blog" is an online computerized journal, short for "web log". Most of these "websites" are operated by people who don't have journalism degrees, and few of them even have editors. They are not to be trusted, because they are biased. Unlike real journalism.)

Using a variety of hardware they managed to sneak out of the secure facility, the monkeys quickly gained access to the Internet using a phone jack in the rear of a Chevron station and free AOL 8.0 discs they found discarded in a dumpster. "Yeah, we had about two thousand discs--we figured we had access covered for a long time!" stated a monkey who identified herself only as Keekee.

The successful evasion and escape from authorities was even more striking once their group's "blog" received a congratulatory "hyperlink" (a type of point-and-click technology which allows readers to quickly jump to another website) from noted online personality and professor, Glenn Reynolds. Mr. Binky stated, "Once we got that link from Glenn, the proverbial Instalanche hit, and all of us were just hooting like...well, like a bunch of monkeys. We got over 50,000 hits that day alone, and managed to impress a couple of folks who had cashed out short and had a bit of walking around money. They were very interested in what we were proposing for business growth strategies during the mid- to late-Oughts. One thing led to another and boom, here we are."

"Here" happens to be a lush, comfortable campus-type office building in a suburban office park outside of New Orleans were the monkeys have established a more permanent, though hardly traditional, marketing practice.

"We love it here," said Sally, a stylishly dressed rhesus macaque, "you know, the phones just drive you crazy all day, but we have time when we can go to the coffee bar or the tire swing, and Wednesdays are ALWAYS find-a-melon day!"

That atmosphere has also contributed to Twenty-Four Escaped Monkees, PC's incredible success as one of the fastest growing marketing firms in the nation. One monkey, who while in captivity was known as 998-UY and who now goes by Peanuts, sat relaxing at his desk and reflected on their incredible story, "Only in America, dude."
posted by Terry at 1:39:00 PM