I feel as though I owe it to my readers to explain my wife’s comment on my “bloggy ideas” post about dancing monkeys.
In case you didn’t get to see her response, she said, “I think you should blog about dancing monkeys. Because obviously, they are a driving force to your madness. And then blog about how awesome I am.”
You see, I was on the phone with a good friend of mine the other day and I can’t remember what spawned me saying this, but I said, “DANCE, MONKEY! DANCE!” I think we were talking about our respective difficult days at work or something and while he was telling me about his day I said it as if I were the organ grinder making his day so difficult.
Well, he let the comment go, but later on in the conversation he said something that made me say it again. Then he said something that indicated disappointment and I said, “CRY, MONKEY! CRY!” I guess I was in a weird mood, but then he said, “That sounds so familiar! Where did you get that?”
I said, “as far as I know, I made it up.” Turns out – I didn’t.
Ok, so maybe I DID come up with it all my own, because the Google searches I did for the phrase “dance monkey dance” came up with stuff I had never heard of. Over 37,000 hits for the exact phrase “dance monkey dance”!!! Looks like there’s games, videos, all kinds of stuff. I could hardly believe it! I was so very disappointed. I was astonished. I was perplexed. I was driving my wife nuts with my absolute awe over the fact that “dance monkey dance” was such a widely used phrase on the internet.
Oh – and my wife is awesome! 