Category: humour

so easy a monkey could do it

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Does this sound like your job?

… At Kayabukiya Tavern, a restaurant just north of Tokyo, two Japanese macaque monkeys, one named Yat-chan and the other, Fuku-chan, fetch drinks and bring people warm towels to wipe their hands.

Dressed in waiter-like outfits, the duo are certified to work here. Customers love them and ply the monkeys with soya beans as tips. Because of animal rights regulations, the monkeys only work two hours a day, but according to this Mail-on line article, there are three more in training. Click on the video to see them in action. Some folks think the monkeys can understand drink orders.

Monkey waiters in Japan a hit with diners – Gadling

Colbert Report finally wins an Emmy

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Jon Stewart won, as usual.

But this year his protégé got one as well.

“I really look forward to the next administration, whoever it is,” Jon Stewart said as he accepted the best variety, music or comedy series award for “The Daily Show.” “I have nothing to follow that. I just really look forward to the next administration.”

Later, Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose “The Colbert Report” won a writing trophy, teamed to present an award — and exchange banter in which they used a package of prunes as a metaphor for the upcoming presidential election.

“America needs prunes. It may not be a young, sexy plum. Granted, it’s shriveled and at times hard to swallow. But this dried-up old prune has the experience we need,” Colbert said. …

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Word nerd. No money, deservedly so.

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Kate posted one of her humour columns.

I love it.

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Not Quite What I Was Planning is a compendium of mini-autobiographies that were sent to the editors after they launched a contest asking people to sum up their lives in six words. Among those who responded were the always- hilarious Stephen Colbert, author and journalist Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm), and author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). Among these more public characters, drag queen and author Josh Kilmer-Purcell wittily wrote of himself, “He wore dresses. This caused messes.”

But the editors were equally intrigued by regular people like a 16-year-old from Nashville, Texas called Lizzie Grace, who penned the poignant, “Wanted world, got world plus lupus.”

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Abigail Moorhouse’s “Barrister, barista, what’s the diff, Mom?” needed no further explanation, which may be why it won the contest over more than 5,000 other entries.

The project was supposedly inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s oft-praised teensy story: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” The book’s unexpectedly telling summaries function as deeply personal haikus. “I still make coffee for two,” reads one. “Found true love, married someone else” reads another.

This kind of fiction is known as “flash,” “micro,” “sudden,” “short-short,” “postcard,” “minute,” “quick,” “furious,” and “skinny.” Those terms characterize a story that is under 2,000 words long and more likely ranges between 250 and 1,000 words. …

Kate of Late