My Family’s Money

My article on owning a pet monkey got picked up over at the Consumerist. As a result my traffic exploded yesterday, as this graph so elegantly and colorfully explains …
Now my article is getting links from places as varied as MSN’s Money Blog “Smart Spending” to an MMORPG guild forum. My fifteen minutes of internet fame is in high gear! The article has also generated a surprising amount of comments over at the Consumerist. It was interesting to see how the “man on the street” is responding. Here are some of my favorite comments:

Stuart is a retard who is not ready for the responsibility of pet ownership, much less exotic animal ownership. No, that’s an insult to the developmentally challenged. Stuart makes them look like Einstein.

I am sure the comment about his reasoning being sound is snarky, but in case it isn’t, you’re are retarded as he is.

I wouldn’t trust Stuart to take care of a sea monkey, never mind a living, breathing, scratching, masturbating, biting and [poop] throwing monkey. Owning an animal because it would be awesome is a sure sign that you are not ready for the responsibility. If you adopt animals that you are not ready to take care of, you are effectively being cruel to the animal. There’s no room for that.

Stuart should do what everyone in his tribe who wants a monkey to f with does. Find a woman and make kids. Same thing.

Notice the blatant misspelling of my pseudonym, I am totally offended by that.

This one tickled my fancy as well:

“The only reason you have a monkey as a pet is to train it to do cool things.”

So, living things exist only for your amusement?

Well then… when We, the Alien Overlords, take over the Earth, I think I will buy you and teach you to do funny tricks.

I absolutely love the scene in Zoolander where Ben Stiller is jumping up and down with cymbals. It makes me want to own a monkey even more.

And this:

[Referring to the sweet Taco John commercial of Whiplash's timely delivery of burritos to the well dressed transients] If a monkey sped past me and then I saw that he had placed a burrito in my hand, I would probably not eat that burrito.

There are also a few good stories about some of the dangers and joys of owning a monkey. Feel free to check them out and leave a comment or two. There is some use of the language that is a little juvenile and crude, so I don’t approve of every comment made. Overall though, the commenters there are a pretty clever bunch.

A special thanks needs to go out to Mr. Chris Walters for picking me up and to the whoever or however that got my article into his hands. I love you mom!