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We're The Great Old Ones Now
14:10 / 26.08.03
Okay, here's a challenge: Sauron proposed a 'slowly slowly catchee monkey' approach to MattsGurl4Eva in the eponymous thread. I'm sure it can be done, but I'm fascinated to see how. So your challenge is to design and describe a monkey trap in which nothing moves quickly at any time, except (if it wants to) the monkey in question.

You may use any object, amount of money, or law of physics you wish, provided the result is satisfyingly intricate, effective, bizarre, or amusing.

Tic toc...
 
 
Ariadne
14:13 / 26.08.03
This may be a wee bit over-simple for you, but... I'll slowly, slowly, brush very sticky treacle all over a piece of board, gently plop bits of banana in the middle, then put my feel up and wait. Gotcha, ya wee monkey.
 
 
Sauron
14:14 / 26.08.03
I could catch a monkey. If I was starving I could. I’d make poison darts out of the poison of deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you’d be dead within a day. Or longer.

Different frogs, different times.
 
 
Saint Keggers
14:19 / 26.08.03
I would put a banana on the road with a giant cage hanging over it. When said cage is lowered, trapping the monkey, a sign would spring up which reads "Speed Limit: .000001mph excluding mokeys".
 
 
Sax
14:20 / 26.08.03
Obvious, really. Nut in a jar, the opening of which is too small for the monkey's fist to be extracted from. The jar's stuck to the floor, as well. No moving parts.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
14:23 / 26.08.03
I would first inject a meme into the monkey collective unconscious that people whose names start with Q are highly trustworthy, using specially constructed Japanese meme-injection technology. I estimate this would take between 6 and 24 months. Once the meme is properly ensconed, I would don my scarlet cape with gold fur trim, and my square gold crown, and glue my crimson mask to my face. Then, when the monkeys started to gather, I would commence my hypnotic monkey-trapping dance, which involves moving through a closing spiral. The monkeys cannot help but follow. At the center of the spiral, on one knee, I will open my arms and the monkeys will rush into my crimson embrace. I'll gather them to my mannish bosom--all of them--and board a tramp steamer to Galapagos.

Anyone interested in owning a monkey thusly captured, PM a mailing address and I'll send you one. Actually, you'll have to send postage, too, I'm not made of money. Send your Self Addressed Stamped Monkey Box to: Baron Q, Box 37704, Galapagos. I estimate I will have between 30 and 500 monkeys by August 2006.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
15:35 / 26.08.03
I want to watch while you enscone that meme. I want to see it covered in lashings of thick clotted cream and made to beg for strawberry jam. Yes, yes, yes I do.

Can we have Ariadne's monkey, too? Can we have some kind of deranged trapped monkey Mazola oil/ensconement/molasses party?

Mmmmm, yummy, twister...
 
 
Ariadne
16:20 / 26.08.03
Well, if you can wait till Hallow'een .. a traditional Scottish entertainment of the evening is to put lashings of black treacle on big round soda scones and hang them from the ceiling. The children all then walk underneath and try to take bites out of the scones without using their hands. (Aye, we made our own entertaiment in thae days....)
I'm sure it'd work just as well with monkeys -- they can replace either the children or the scones, your pick.
 
 
Panic
16:39 / 26.08.03
First I'd dress like Bugs Bunny.

Then as Bugs, I'd dress like a girl monkey. Y'know with lipstick and a curly yellow wig.

The monkey would see me, and swoon. I'd offer him a cup of tea. "One lump or two?" I'd ask.

Then I'd whack him in the head with a mallet.
 
 
Ariadne
17:00 / 26.08.03
Whack him slowly on the head? How's that work? I suppose it might, if he's still in a swoon, pre smelling salts and tea.
 
 
Ariadne
17:01 / 26.08.03
PS - has anyone ever smelled smelling salts? I did once when i was about 7, and my nose can conjure it up again, clear as day. They'd bring the dead round.
 
 
Panic
18:09 / 26.08.03
Hmm...yes. "Whack" does seem a bit inappropriate a verb. I suppose "caress his head gently with a mallet" might not work. Then I suppose I should read a bit more carefully as well.


Ah...oxycodone sugar lumps, then? A whole lotta lumps?
 
 
that
18:15 / 26.08.03
You know that bit from 'Danny, Champion of the World' when they're pheasant poaching with the sedative-laced raisins in paper hats? That'd work on monkeys, right?
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
22:28 / 26.08.03
How'd I catch a monkey? Simple. Inject a seditive into a banana. Leave the banana out for the monkey. Monkey eats banana and passed out. I go get the monkey. Occam's Razor strikes again!
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
22:40 / 26.08.03
But you haven't dressed up as anybody, jagoff!
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
22:45 / 26.08.03
Darling, I only dress up on weekends and for parties. You should know that by now.
 
 
William Sack
22:46 / 26.08.03
I haven't thought my trap through, but it will be sprung on the monkey discovering the secret of fire.
 
 
A
03:37 / 27.08.03
Nuts to you people. I'm on the monkey's side. I'm equipped with a jetpack and a crossbow, and I'll see that that monkey comes to no harm. (Not that it's really necessary, because you're all about as good at trapping monkeys as Dick Dastardly was at catching that pigeon.)
 
 
TheFoolofChaos
06:41 / 27.08.03
In slow motion dig a hole,

Spread ash in hole,

Place peas around hole.

When monkey comes to take a pea,

Kick him in the ash hole!
 
 
Perfect Tommy
21:53 / 27.08.03
Slowly, slowly leaping on Cash Jackson's uncopyrighted plan, I will disguise myself as fire, and wait for a monkey to discover me. When he's hypnotized by my flames, I slowly huggle the monkey. Awwww, monkey.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
14:04 / 28.08.03
Buh?

I want a monkey too. I challenge you.
 
 
—| x |—
05:32 / 29.08.03
The Zoo.
 
  
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