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Everybody who was going to rush in to pick Charles Krauthammer can just settle down. Krauthammer has left the building. RIP, sir.

I was about to say, looks like the Dead Pool convention of waiting until Fridays means we avoid having an argument about Dr. Krauthammer, since he announced what, two weeks ago, and I (for one) thought that picking him violated at least the spirit of Rule O.

Remember that gorilla researcher in SF (I wonder if KoKo knew her) who made her grad students flash their breasts to the ape? Supposedly, it was to make the ape more maternal or the researcher was having a laugh or she was just kinky. Anyway, dont think these animals shd be in captivity.

Koko joins Harambe in Gorilla Heaven, sad.

IIRC Koko liked having a cat around to blame things on.

1) She was famous
2) She was objectively smarter than most celebrities.

2) She was objectively smarter than most celebrities liberals.

There. Fixed it for you.

Gorillas aren’t exclusively herbivores. Just sayin’.

Yep, Mr Carson.
They should’ve realized a problem when the damn dirty ape kept naming the kittens “Donut.”

IQ of 85? I guess that’s why Koko is reading “Socialist Review” in the pic?

Yeah. I’m a bit monkey-phobic myself. Don’t like zoos either.

My son and his wife taught sign-language to their first-born, and it was amazing to see how Child adapted what she’d learned to what she wanted. At five months, I watched her repeatedly sign “bottle” and “more” when her father walked past her with his plate of barbecue. She didn’t know what it was, but she damn sure wanted some!

Alas poor ape.
I heard she liked dressing up as Fay Wray.

Or was that Christopher A. Wray?

Phew! I just accidentally posted the DeadPool in realtime, instead of scheduling it for 6WBT.

Is my face red.

It still isn’t up, though

Currently pulled off highway awaiting morbidity wagering!

WBT doesn’t observe British Summer Time, so it’s not for an hour yet.

OOPS!!!!

I actually met Koko in the early 90’s. We were were selling some of our specialty Nikkor lens and camera equipment. A guy inquired about one of the more obscure lenses. When he arrived I immediately recognized him and asked “Aren’t you Ron Cohn?” pointing to a B&W lithograph of Koko on our wall that we bought at a charity auction.
He was very taken aback as they were not well known at that time.

Long story short; He bought the lens and we were invited to the Woodside compound to observe Penny in a session with Koko.

Outsiders were not allowed direct contact, but observed through a two-way mirror, so that their data wouldn’t be skewed, but I swear Koko understood and was feeding info back spontaneously and appropriately, it did not appear to learned or rote behavior…she was sort of riffing on the humans. The twinkle in her eye was almost as if she was thinking “So you want the sign for banana do you? How about asshole instead?”.

Everyone was totally dialed into the project and Cohn was barely keeping the lights on from scant donations and his own pocket. Their equipment was kludged and the whole operation had that feeling of doing something exciting.

The researchers and technicians, including Patterson volunteered as most were working on their doctoral thesis in various medical and behavioral sciences at nearby Stanford.

However, I also agree that monkeys and Chimpanzees are kind of creepy and shouldn’t be kept as pets, period, but then I also feel the same about parrots, etc…except most birds can’t rip your face off. Although I recently met a Macaw that surely wanted to. I don’t get the attraction of caged wild birds.