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Where were Monte and Mortimer this morning in the Woot Daily Digest?

Apr 3, 2012 12:17 PM

Have they gone missing? I sure hope they haven't been sacked, it's a tough job market out there for a Monkey.

(Is it just my email, or were they not at the bottom?)

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I suspect the Great Screaming Monkey Uprising of 2012 has been put down harshly. After years of opression: being made to work long hours, watching their compatriots flung at screaming crowds of drunks in Las Vegas and torn apart, and being made fun of on a rountine basis on the Podcast, the Woot Screaming Monkeys were on the edge.

After Woot posted a video of the ritual disembowelment of their close friend, Mortimer and Monte had enough. They organized and rose up against their Woot masters.

Alas, fuzzy fur and the ability to fly up to 50 feet are no match for mandoline slicers and fast opening knives. And the lack of opposable thumbs (or digits of any kind, really) doomed the rebellion from the start.

wilfbrim wilfbrim
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jsimsace jsimsace
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@wilfbrim: i was wondering if someone threw them in the pile of monkeys that ended yesterday's moof-off.
http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/f4f07630-e8ce-40b6-8bce-3a7c9754888c/will-you-join-me-for-flash-friday-monday#50

moosezilla moosezilla
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I think Monte finally snapped and killed Mortimer. He's busy hiding the body.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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@wilfbrim: Bravo by the way, you might have what it takes to be a S.C.A.B. (programmer?). :-)

atomicorange atomicorange
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The plot thickens:

https://twitter.com/#!/WootLive/status/187223686129004544

Wootlive The strike negotiations required Mortimer and Monte to be retired. @ModerateRadical Did Mortimer and Monte go on strike this time?

I suspect they are still on strike.

yrguide yrguide
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I think the two wayward monkeys are out making the rounds. politically speaking. You have to remember that the woot writers were supported by a couple othe unions groups.

* Urban Beekeepers Against Women's Suffrage
* The Aryan Homeopathy Front
* Babywearers United for a Sane Fluoridation Policy
* The Mumia Abu-Jamal Foundation for Open-Source Vaccines
* Radical Faeries Against the Gold-Fringed Flag

And the monkeys are likely taking some time off from bad jokes to visit each of these supporting unions and thank them for their support.
I almost feel sorry for those suffering female bees that that have to ask what kind of sweetener they would like with tea? I can just picture the conversation like this:

Bee maid : what would you like with your tea?

mortimer : honey

monte: mortimer, how could you? these are bees. you don't ask for honey to sweeten your tea.

mortomer : So they have the best kind then right? makes sense to me.

theant theant
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In thinking about this question I also thought of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vol6SN_ti80&list=UUXeshNs7FE4SDJrw1O7ueEw&index=19&feature=plcp

I wonder how many of these have been done, and how many are still being attempted?

theant theant

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