h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Live Monkey Brains - Lunch Or Legend - A24828591
Author: swl - If you give a mouse a cookie - U1775547

Here's one Auntie didn't approve of

Loved the entry, loved the previous PR thread.


Love the 'fact' that Indie is now yikes'd somewhere in cyberspace.

Look forward to seeing this on the FP.

You're right, the PR thread was class - http://wsogmm.h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/F7774759?thread=4369023&skip=0&show=20

That is one Entry whose being frowned upon has always baffled me. Good to see it back

I can see the merits in this Entry - especially by treating it as a myth or legend.

However, I really do think that the graphical treatment of the subject in the 'How to' should be toned down a little. I am not terribly squeamish, but I did find this paragraph much to hard to bear as it seemed entirely unsympathetic to the monkey's plight.

I rather enjoyed reading this, yes it was distasteful - but so is all meat production.

I'd like to know more about the historical context - given that it's not really ever well verified. When was it first reported, is it used against the Chinese? Is it like the blood libel that is used against Jewish people.

It's now a bit of a Urban Ledgend isn't it? When was it first reported?Is it commonly believed?

I've seen material from a medieval Chinese homeopathic text that prescribed the flesh of the Sasquatch for insanity.

...my own closest encounter with a Sasquatch, the Sasquatch had apparently been served an evacuation notice just before my team arrived...

I'm only jiving of course, except about the part in the first sentence.

Nothing much to add, 'cept a smile that we can now be treated as adults.

Without being too squeamish myself, I think you might mention somewhere that another fact making this unlikely to be more than a legend is that the monkey is presumably making a lot of noise and thrashing about? Not to mention the smell and the blood and faeces all over the floor...

Also, I really doubt that cracking a hard boiled egg is like cracking the skull of a monkey. Skulls are tough and I think you would have to swing very hard.

As you have it here, you would think that conversation about the weather is continuing - having heard angry monkeys, I really doubt this. I find it a bit cold blooded.

Additionally, for the sake of completeness perhaps mention that eating live brains from something that we share more than 90% of our DNA with, is presumably a pretty good way to get CJD or some other prion related nastiness?

Basically, although I think poor taste is not necessarily a grounds for exclusion in noohootoo, I don't think we should be sanitising something that if it ever existed would have been a barbaric - not so say horrific event.

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I would agree with Sprout myself

Though does it reflect badly on me, when i got distracted halfway through the earlier PR, when i saw that someone was apeing Chess (I apologise, that pun was puny)