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Hamlet and the Screaming Slingshot Monkey Posted on 21:46, January 17th, 2009 by Small Town MommyIf you have voted for the name for my GPS, thank you. If not, please vote in the center column (please, please, please, please, please). I need your help and you can reward the efforts of all the kind readers who took the time to actually try to come up with a name for the rude thing. Since the pleading is finished, I want to get to the real post… I am going to introduce you to the fabulous gift our neighbors gave to Hamlet. Frank and Hamlet went to the neighbors to help them move a treadmill (ok, Frank went to help them move, Hamlet just went because he likes to visit the neighbors. He isn’t much help with heavy lifting). While there, the neighbors gave Hamlet something called a screaming slingshot monkey. The neighbors had gotten one for their dog and had a spare. Frank and Hamlet brought it home and Hamlet hated it. It makes some kind of weird howling noise and it scared the crap out of him. When trying to find it online, I discovered the target age is 12 year old boys, which explains why Frank likes it. Hamlet finally accepted it when I shot it across the room for him (for some insane reason, the dog trusts me, no accounting for taste). It is really rather satisfying to shoot it across the room. I recommend it for when the kids get out of hand (social services frowns on shooting the kids across the room). Hamlet has since decided he will keep it (to be honest, he has taken it somewhere, never to be seen again, I am stuck here alone with my out-of-hand children). I am a little concerned that it may not be constructed well enough to withstand intense doggie chewing, I am hoping we wont have another post about something bad happening to Hamlet (Hamlet and the Screaming Slingshot Monkey, Part 2). Let’s hope I don’t have to do an Internet search for “dog ate screaming slingshot monkey.”
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I bet you’ve already done an Internet search on “dog ate screaming slingshot monkey” and I’m looking forward to reading that post tomorrow.
Roxy
I have never heard of this toy. I hope you, I mean, I hope Hamlet has fun with it.
Oh, oh, where can I get one? It sounds like something our fat cats would chase (and Chuck also enjoys toys geared towards 12-year-old boys). Oh, who am I kidding, I am going to have to suck it up and get a cat harness. Sigh.
Those are a hoot. If we weren’t already too loud, I’d get one of me own.
*chuckles* You are funny! Scott likes toys targeted to twelve-year-olds, too
(hee hee… where can I find one?)
oh geez… I hope no one gifts DH, er I mean the Pudgy Princess with one of these.
I bought those for our guys for a gag gift for C-mas a couple of years ago. They were the biggest hit ever of my attempts to keep us smiling!
I suppose now I’m going to have to see about getting one of these…hubby also loves toys targeted to 12 year olds, too…and likes to annoy the dogs, the cat, the kid, me…with anything annoying!
Roxy, I am trying to avoid that search
. So far, so good!
Lydia, I am having a great time. I have trained the 5 year old to fetch it when Hamlet gives me the look.
Frogmama, I believe you can order it from Amazon. I tried to include a link (with a snazzy photo) but it didn’t work with my post.
Patois, they are loud and sound like they are being tortured.
Nicole, I think all frustrated adolescent males like them.
Storm, they really aren’t bad although they are kinda loud.
Sharkbytes, this was the first I had ever heard of them. I didn’t realize they had been around for that long. Things take a while to reach the small town.
Stacy, the cats pretty much look down their nose at the monkey. They would probably have a different reaction if someone hit them with it.
Oh that sounds like the Nun Chucks we got for my Aunt. She is a Sister with the Catholic Church so we thought it was appropriate for someone who was supposed to stay calm all the time… hehehehe
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LOL!! I think I have seen these before! Hilarious!
We got one of these as a gag gift for a friend last year. Uh, it turned into part of a warped kinda drinking game toy….
We are very weird over here some days. Sigh.
I have to admit, I’d be afraid of what might get shot across the room if that were in our house!
Hope you find it back before Hamlet ingests it.
dropping EC..parking for a while!
see you at mine!
gagay
I tagged you for a meme…go check it out! Happy Monday to you!
Oh, good. Something to shoot across the room other than the children. Hopefully, Hamlet will handle with care.
Davida
Where’s our slingshot monkey picture? Sounds cuuuuuute!
whew! happy tuesday! hopping me here again! take care!
gagay