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Category: Thoughts

5 Days of Monkey Mayhem

By Aidan Posted on August 28, 2010 Posted in Thoughts Tagged with Monkeys

5 Days till WorldCon… Five Little Monkeys When I was living in Japan, I’d sometimes visit kindergartens to teach English.  I usually taught 4 and 5-year-olds in classes of about 30 students. I’d teach them simple vocabulary (animals, numbers, food, …

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6 Days of Monkey Mayhem

By Aidan Posted on August 27, 2010 Posted in Thoughts Tagged with Monkeys

6 days till WorldCon… Via Pink Tentacle, a designated hour non-smoking monkey poster from Japan in 1980   No smoking during non-smoking hours (October 1980) The “Journey to the West” monkey urges passengers not to smoke on the platform during …

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7 Days of Monkey Mayhem

By Aidan Posted on August 26, 2010 Posted in Thoughts Tagged with Monkeys

One week to WorldCon starts. The Librarian character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series gets transformed into an orang-utan.   He takes great personal offense when people refer to him as a monkey.  Chimps and orang-utans are apes not monkeys.  But still… …

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