Revision Monkey
I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
That's not really true
...I was bitten by a boar
I was gouged and I was gored
But I pulled on through
-- Stones 'Monkey Man' I recall a few years ago there was a brief period when it was trendy to have monkey mascots for various activities. I don't really know how widespread this was, I wasn't paying attention. I rarely do. But there was a 'rally monkey' for Wall Street, there was a 'sales monkey' for a local auto dealer. There were other monkeys as well, for various enterprises, campaigns. And much talk of monkeys and memes. I think the White Stripes song 'Jimmy the Exploder' has a monkey in it, though that may be different. Generally monkeys are fun. So at this time the end-processing unit down at the other end of the floor from me at my work place is full of monkeys, monkeying around with each other, chattering away the day. Rolling playfully with the notion. One day as I leave work, I come in and leave much latter than most - I prefer the relative quite of a mostly empty office. I see a cart of books; on the cart is a cardboard sign "for the Revision Monkey". Revision is one of their quality control steps and they are in the habit of leaving signs on carts to indicate what step a set of work is in. I paused and looked at it for a moment before passing on. The next day I saw that sign in the trash and never saw another like it again. Always good clean fun, until...
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