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Who here likes pancakes? I like pancakes.

What's that monkey doing to that ... hang on ... what's that thing it's doing it to, anyway?

That was a study, no? The one that showed that baby monkeys would be attracted to and spend time with the cuddly robot as opposed to the robot that gave it only nourishment, but was just a robot. This robot had snuggly carpeting, so the monkey would get food from the other robot, but spend all kinds of time with this robot.

Actually, I thought about this later, and I think it's one of those studies where they raise a chimpanzee away from its mother to demonstrate either how monkeys need touch to develop into executives or how doctors really like to mess with monkeys' heads.

Either way, unfortunate.

Or, you know, what Adam said.

I have this picture in my Abnormal Pysch book from lo those many years ago at university. Excerpted: The Ethics of Research - Methodology Case Study source text: adapted from Giddens, and Atkinson et. al.

Harry Harlow experimented in socialisation in the 1950s and 1960s by taking baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers. All material needs were provided for the baby monkeys, they were fed and given all they needed materially.

The baby monkeys which were brought up in isolation from other monkeys behaved in a very bizarre and unusual way. When they were introduced to other monkeys, they were hostile or fearful and they refused to interact. They spent their time huddling in the corners of their cages and their posture was not dissimilar from that of humans who experience schizophrenia.

The monkeys could not, or would not mate with other monkeys. Some females were impregnated by artificial insemination, but they did not pay attention to their young. Monkeys raised in partial isolation where they could see other monkeys, but could not interact were also unable to mate correctly. They did however masturbate which showed that normal sexual function was in fact present.

Harlow refined his experiment to see if the mother was essential to the develop of the social behaviour of the monkey. He brought up the babies in age group cohorts, without access to adults who would provide a substitute mother. These monkeys all behaved in a normal monkey manner. Monkeys were reared in cages with feeders attached to substitute mothers.

Each baby monkey had two model mothers, wire and terry cloth. In groups, some wire mothers were rigged to provide food, and some wire mothers were rigged to provide food. In all cases, the baby monkey preferred the cloth mother regardless of which provided food.

Is this like when you go into a worm-hole and end up in an alternate universe? Where am I? I feel all funny inside....

No, really, how did I end up here? I was minding my own business, posting meaningless drivel to the Chef-aganza, and *poof* I'm here.

Sometimes, the beginning is the middle.

Other times, the end is the middle.

Sometimes noon is half past six.

Do you see?

And the clocks will all run backwards
and all the sheep will have two heads
and Thursday night on Friday will come on Tuesday night instead.

I just put comments in wherever the hell I feel like it anyway.

Cos he's a loner, Dottie, a rebel....

I thought it was Ashley Montague(?)...oh well, at least the baby monkey's happy-ish....

That's right mcjon, a 2 demensional (or is that dement-ional) rebel!

dimensional

The study of law is inversely proportional to quality spelling and grammar.

I just found out that I will be unemployed stating Dec 20.

way to fuck up the holidays.

Sorry to hear that, tj. Here's hoping better things come your way...

Sorry to hear about your job. Perhaps we should adopt a Monkey Named TJ for Christmas?

That ain't right. Let's get the Punching Nun puppet from the other thread, and go whoop the bastards.

SUCKY

eh, I was just doing the math, it's not so bad. I'll be getting my last check just in time to blow it all on hookrs and booze for New Year's.

Hookers, and booze, and the dole, oh my! My condolences, brother tj.

Also please send any leftover hookers and booze that you find in the back of the closet to tj. The Salvation Army doesn't appreciate them enough.

Dude, that sucks. Anyone you want me to "take care of" to prevent that from happening? I watch the Sopranos. I think I know how it's done.

Talk about suckage. Please don't throw yourself off a bridge TJ. I'm sure we can keep them from foreclosing on the bank somehow.

And don't let Michael Jackson dangle you off a balcony with a towel over your head, either!

well kids, it's a totally different situation that what happened to me this time last year. I knew it was coming this time and I have no hard feelings the budget is not so good here. There is a chance for an 11th hour contract to come up.

I'm not even that upset. at least this time I'll be on the dole.

it scared the shite out of me!

I tell you the baby probably thought it was it's one chance to get away.

True. In the MeFi thread that is currently in existence, someone wrote: "Well, on the positive side, if he's busy dangling them, he can't be molesting them." If it was anyone else, I'd say that was a low blow. In the case of MJ, I can only say "heh."

Sorry to hear about your job, tj. That completely sucks.

Just look at it as a really long vacation. With no pay.

eh, I'm not worried. I've been through worse.

All that working cuts into your drinking time anyway.

I'd like to officially declare this thread the "Someone's Getting Laid Off" thread for now and always.

But where's the "Someone's Getting Laid" thread?

ya know, I put it back here thinking no one would bother so I could just bitch about it semi-anonymously, forgetting about the whole recent comments thing.

sorry fellow monkeys.

I've been behaving myself for the past month too. I haven't really gone out but once since my birfday.

sorry fellow monkeys.

No need to be sorry, teej.

apologies not accepted! your simian brothers and sisters are here for you. Here, let me pick your fleas, tj.

tizzie, if your not busy, I've got a couple of nits that could use a little attention. You know, if you're available. No rush though.

i love nitpicking! and I like to eat the little nitters after I pick 'em, too. mmmm.

TJ - we should take the opportunity to form our own band.

Ladies and gentlemen - Live from the Copabanana - our velour-draped entertainers - give us a big hand for - Miguel y TayHota!
*wild applause*
*undies thrown into the orchestra pit*

I like it

*shivers*

Aw, c'mon gimme my undies back...

Hey--those were for me! *snatches panties*

no they weren't you washed up pantysnatch.

*snatches panties*

(pantysnatch, I like it becuase it sounds funny)

and it's funny cuz it's true!

OK, here's something random. Anyone who graduated circa 1991 remember a big assembly where they made you watch this slide show thing on 3 screens and they kept talking about "Shades" (as in sunglasses) and how everyone is different but we're all cool deep down, blah blah blah?

That just popped into my head. I think they did it at many schools across the country. Or maybe it was just a Maryland thing.

graduated in '91 but I don't remember that. But there's alot about that year I'm probably blocking out of memory

graduated in '91 but I don't remember that. But there's alot about that year I'm probably blocking out of memory

post dammit

OK, here's something random. Anyone who graduated circa 1991 remember a big assembly where they made you watch this slide show thing on 3 screens and they kept talking about "Shades" (as in sunglasses) and how everyone is different but we're all cool deep down, blah blah blah?

i remember something like that.

and a montel-style comedian who came in and told us you couldn't play basketball on acid.

we proved him wrong.

Class of '91 Rulz!

uh, cChef's been in the absinthe again.

WHEEEEEE!

Happy birthday, 9622.net!

None of that "closed for archival purposes" shite here, thank God!

That's because we don't care enough to archive.

Must you guys piss all over everything to mark your territory?

Jeezly Cripes.

The above was meant to be amusingly ironic, uh, that's all.

Just curious, I see some weird layout when loading this blog using Mac OSX. Maybe it is only my problem.

It's not OS X, the problem is Safari.

actually, we just have a wierd layout