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Paul Lewis gives his autograph to David Harper:


Obama showed up for some Austrian advice:


While this guy just monkeyed around all conference:



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  1. Bob Murphy7:46 PM

    Did anybody mind that you were wandering around snapping photos? (Presumably the monkey didn't care, but besides him?)

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  2. gcallah8:39 PM

    The Obama cutout didn't mind either. One person seemed a little suspicious, but that was it. I was showing people I was taking photographs and blogging right from my phone, so that there posts were up about 10 seconds after the photo was taken, and no one else cared at all.

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  3. TokyoTom11:58 PM

    Erhmmm. Gene, please forgive the quibble, but why are you "monkeying" around with an orangutan? It is a great ape and like us a member of the hominid family, and NOT a monkey.

    (The monkeys have tails; those of New World monkeys are prehensile, while those of the Old World are reprehensible.)

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  4. gcallah6:51 PM

    Yes, Tom, I learned that distinction when I was about six, but do bad puns need to be taxonomically accurate?

    Monkey:

    "1. any of several families of Old and New World primates usually having a flat, hairless face and a long tail
    "2. loosely any of other, similar primates, as a gibbon or chimpanzee"

    By the way, the major cladistic division is Old-World Monkeys/Apes versus New World Monkeys -- "monkey" itself is not a taxonomic term at all!

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  5. TokyoTom10:32 PM

    As I said, Gene, it's merely a quibble.

    Shall we estrange
    ourselves from our cousin apes?
    Or "monkey" with care?

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  6. gcallah10:54 PM

    But why you wanna quibble me so? You are like an amiable and often amusing gadfly, whom I could never bear to swat even though I can't understand why it keeps buzzing past my ear.

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  7. TokyoTom11:46 PM

    What can I say? Even if I fail to inform, I am rewarded by agreement or by learning from disagreement, and in either case learn something about you..

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