Monkeys on hunger strike, want onions (Addiction)

New kerala ^ | March 18, 2005 | UPI

[RobFromGa]

Monkeys on hunger strike, want onions

[World News]: MOSCOW, March 18 : Monkeys went on a hunger strike in a Russian zoo because handlers were not satisfying an addiction for onions.

The animals, housed in the village zoo at Bolsherechye in the Omsk region, refused to eat bananas, kiwis and papayas.Three hamadryads are said to be responsible for the protest action and other monkeys had to obey them, Novosti reported Friday.

According to zoo researcher Svetlana Balavatskaya, monkeys took to onions in winter when zoo workers fed them to the monkeys to keep them from contracting flu from visitors.

The zoologists missed the moment when the monkeys became onion addicts.

Usually hamadryads carefully peel an onion, thoroughly examine it and then put it into the mouth whereupon the onions brought tears to their eyes.

[muir_redwoods]

""Give us what we want, or we refuse to fling poo and masturbate!"

This about monkeys, not democrats

[Darksheare]

I'm now fiending for a mozarella bacon mushroom burger with onions..

[Gabz]

I've been fiending for Onion soup for weeks.........I think I'll make some..........

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"All together now-'WE WANT ONIONS! WE WANT ONIONS! WE WANT ONIONS!'"

[Darksheare]

Gaaah!
I have to find someplace that has a bacon mushrrom burger with the option of onions.. as I don't have the needed ingredients on hand to make such a beasty.

[Defiant]

"He's an innocent primate."

"Well, so am I!"

[Gabz]

I have everything to make your beasty................except the beef.

[Darksheare]

I'm missing ground beef mushrooms and bacon.
I have the cheese and onions.
*sigh*

[Gabz]

Boy oh boy - we can't even combine pantry supplies to come up with a simple burger...............*sigh* is right!!!

[Darksheare]

I know!
But we can make quite a soup with buttered toast on the side.

[Gabz]

True!!!!!!!!!!

[Darksheare]

Getting hungrier now, going to make something quick and easy.

[Gabz]

me, too - this discussion has made me hungry!

[Darksheare]

Sandwich sounds good, I do have stuff for that.

[Gabz]

This calls for liverwurst and onion..........but I'm out of liverwurst, guess I'll settle for ham and cheese.

[Darksheare]

*chuckle*

I always got looked at funny for putting ketchup and mustard on liverwurst.

[followerofchrist]

This shows serious intelligence.

[Gabz]

I'm a Miracle Whip on liverwurst person, myself.

[Darksheare]

Helman's, I use Miracle Whip as salad dressing base.

[dighton]

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Three hamadryads are said to be responsible for the protest action and other monkeys had to obey them, Novosti reported Friday.

HAMADRYAD n. One of those rather delightful words that have several totally different meanings. A hamadryad can be a tree-dwelling nymph, a venomous Indian snake, or an Abyssinian baboon. You may thus use the word, for example in the latter sense, when insulting a female, but on being taken to task you may if you wish explain that you were using the word in its nymphal sense. Alternatively, you may use the word as an apparent compliment, conveying by your manner the impression that you were invoking the nymphal sense, but at the same time revel in the private knowledge that one of the other senses is the applicable one.

-- Peter Bowler, The Superior Person’s Book of Words.