That's it. I have now seen eveything. The fat lady has sang, hell has frozen over. It's the end of the world as we know it. I had this email forwarded to me, and I am just going to post it in it's entirely rather than try to...ummm....decipher/break down/make logical sense of it. Yes, it must be Friday. Don't say you weren't warned!
(email from PokerShare.com)
Show me the Monkey!
A Star is Born
Following an intensive spell of poker training, nightly home games, and repeated watching of the film 'Rounders', Mikey is ready. Ready for his entry to the main event of the WSOP, where he's gonna psyche out his less evolved opponents. Ready for fame, fans, and yes... even groupies. Ready to eat some of the finest bananas known to humanity. The Rumours are True. PokerShare is taking both online poker and primate research to new heights...
We are entering Mikey the Chimp to the $10k Main Event at the World Series of Poker. As the first non-human primate competitor at the WSOP, there is a lot of expectation surrounding Mikey. A great deal rests on shoulders - not least the hopes and dreams of the entire monkey community. Luckily, Mikey's shoulders are not just incredibly hairy, but also broad. Whatever you fling at him, he can deal with. But if you trash talk monkey poker players, he might just fling something back at you.
Important Scientific Research
Research into the ability of monkeys to ape human language has produced mixed results: from Washoe, who has mastered over 800 words in American Sign Language, to Nim Chimpsky (now deceased) who managed only 125 (example phrase: "Me Nim eat me"). However, experiments regarding the gaming skills of monkeys are extremely limited: We know, for example, that Kanzi (who has the spoken language skills of a 2 1/2; year old human) enjoys a game of Ms. Pacman, but it would seem that his researchers have yet to introduce him to poker. His sister Panbanisha on the other hand, also a resident of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, "has a very high level of interest in creating musical constructions at the keyboard."
Likewise, Mikey's glittering career in the music industry has already seen him make the cover of a Black-Eyed Peas album. What a lucrative gig that was. Mikey is actually not even a fan of theirs, preferring Mandrill and also Shakira, but you've got to feed the monkey, right?
Both PokerShare and Mikey hope to raise the profile of the Campaign for Equal Rights of Monkeys Worldwide, and to discover whether our thesis is correct, that a chimp is capable of playing poker at least as well as Phil Hellmuth Jr., if not better.
To read more about Mikey and his plans for the WSOP, or to see pictures of him in action, (nice shades, dude) please click here.
(Thanks, R!)
1. This is both awesome and horrible in so many ways. I saw video of him on a morning show. He won the hand they played but then started eating chips.
What are ya gonna do?
I think you can still see the video here:
http://www.yahoo.com/s/353632
Posted at 1:14AM on Jul 23rd 2006 by Sanchovilla