From Geekosystem

The Simpsons and South Park have made fun of each other in the past, but tonight’s Simpsons opened with a quick but touching show of inter-cartoon support, courtesy of Bart’s chalkboard.
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You catch monkeys by making a hole in a coconut so that it is just big enough for the monkey to insert his hand. You make a smaller hole at the other end, pass a rope through it that’s knotted at one end, then pull the rope through til the knot catches. Then you bait the coconut with some food and tie it to a tree. The monkey puts his hand in the coconut and grabs the food, but then can’t pull his hand out because he’s made sort of a fist and refuses to let go of his booty. They never let go. All they have to do is to let go, then they can extract their hand, but they don’t. They never let go. They never escape.

Some people are the same way.

Ed

I really like this Shooshism from my friend, Shooshie, a very gifted musician, composer/arranger, poet and Renaissance man. It cracks me up.

The problem with mankind is that man is a pack animal,
with pack animal instincts. The invention of writing gave man an
opinion, and suddenly he decided that he was not like the others in the
pack.

History has been the play between individual dissociating from
the pack when he’s got food, and trying to rejoin it when he doesn’t.
Government has been the act of the pack trying to get the individual to
share his food, while trying to promote his independence when he’s got
no food.

That behavior promises to be around for a long time.

Shooshie

Ed