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Touched By A Monkey

Concerns herein: poetry and monkeys

Friday, July 16, 2010

Monkey guns for hire

Taliban fighter monkeys? Is this real life?



Don't they know that by giving monkeys guns they're only hastening the monkey world take over?

Via Buzzfeed.
Posted by D'Anne Witkowski at 10:41 PM
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