Monkeys with hot tubs

Oregon Magazine ^ | May 1, 2003 | Michael O'Brien

[WaterDragon]

There's a recent television commercial most of us have seen, which involves a tourist losing his credit card in the jungle. It deals with security and protection issues for the cardholder.

After posing the question, 'Who's going to find it here anyway?' - the scene shifts to a raucous disco party, featuring bejeweled, champagne-popping monkeys in a hot tub, whooping it up on the man's lost credit card.

Last May, when the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission traveling road show appeared in Tillamook County, a full house at the Fairgrounds, which included legislators and candidates, made it very clear to the commission that fishermen were willing to pay out of their own pockets to keep our hatcheries open.

They would do so by accepting a licensing increase, with the earmarked funds from said increase going directly to Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to protect jobs, landowner programs and chiefly, our hatcheries.

This suggestion was not a commission proposal, but rather one from the crowd, the same one heard at every stop the commission made on its "town hall" tour during April and May to various locales....(snip)

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[rmmcdaniell]

Oregon should rename its fishing license to "fishing tax reciept."

[nunya bidness]

We need a monkeylist to keep track of these monkey stories.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Second!