November 20, 2008

Flying Monkey
FOUND by Christian in Tucson, Arizona
I found this gem face down in a classroom at the UA and was pretty terrified when I flipped it over. Those flying monkeys always gave me nightmares when I was little...
Monkey in denial
...cousin Steve?
+ November 20, 2008 12:08 AM +
Steph in somnia
Wow, just when your fear of human sized monkeys and clowns couldn't get any worse!!
+ November 20, 2008 12:13 AM +
sarasara in turn off the lights!
wow, that is one fugly ape!

(I know I should call in sick any day that face looks back at me in the mirror)
+ November 20, 2008 12:22 AM +
Doctor Jones in dy
So THAT's what George W. B's gonna do after his retirement... the resemblance is stunning!
+ November 20, 2008 12:54 AM +
Geek NOT in my mom's basement
My first thought was Ben Stiller, but the hair could be Seth Green.

80 years after The Wizard of Oz was made, the special effects are still awesome. Toto could be a relative of Uno. "Uno and Toto" means "One and all." Weird.
+ November 20, 2008 02:08 AM +
lawndude in nc
Looks like a drunken flying monkey. I do not know if that makes it more or less threatening.
+ November 20, 2008 03:57 AM +
baby basil in the herb garden
ROFL @ Dr. Jones!!

What a shocker for first thing in the AM! Started my day with snorting, choking laughter! I too was traumatised by the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz movie...saw it again a yr or two back and I *still* don't think I could class it as a "kid's movie." Maybe today's kids are tougher, if they are raised playing things like Hellboy and Silent Hill...

Today is my silver wedding anniversary (25 yrs). We are off to celebrate.
+ November 20, 2008 04:04 AM +
shell in oz
Happy Anniversary from Dorothy land!

May there be no flying monkeys...smug bastard that they are...in you future!
+ November 20, 2008 04:17 AM +
Megan in Cambridge, MA
My first thought was Ben Stiller as well! There is an uncanny resemblence.
+ November 20, 2008 05:13 AM +
Laura in in a chair
Holy sh*t, that's creepy.
+ November 20, 2008 05:25 AM +
G in a, @ home
Can you say PEDOPHILE???

Congrats, Basil!
+ November 20, 2008 05:35 AM +
LASH back on the PLANET WITH THE?

WHOA! Are we or are they back on the Planet of the Flying Apes???

SHITE!
+ November 20, 2008 06:05 AM +
LASH celebrating her son's 20th Birthday, too!

@ BABY BASIL- HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY!! And many moreeee!!!
+ November 20, 2008 06:07 AM +
Mary Shea in Virginia
That is very creepy. "why so serious?"
+ November 20, 2008 06:35 AM +
kenny in a basement
Aaaah! This made me jump
+ November 20, 2008 06:37 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
This little gal (or guy ... you're not gonna talk ME into doing the inspection to determine which it is) has been through the usual flying monkey 12-step program and has made the decision to become a productive member of society. Note the air of confidence. Note the wide smile. Note the cap set at a jaunty angle. What an inspiration to struggling simians everywhere!
+ November 20, 2008 06:37 AM +
Lisa in New Hampshire
that's right up there with my clown phobia
+ November 20, 2008 06:48 AM +
Grumpy and Scared and Scarred in the morning
All I had to see was the top of that ugly little cap and I knew what the costume was. Laura in in a chair nailed it.
+ November 20, 2008 07:02 AM +
lorelei in oz
Flying monkeys rock! Some day I hope to have my own flock!
+ November 20, 2008 07:19 AM +
Hiplainsdrifter in South Portland, Maine
Get your stinking paws off my little dog - yooou damn dirty ape!
+ November 20, 2008 07:24 AM +
Kate in Bloom
Kyra Sedgewick?? She really needs to wax that chest.
+ November 20, 2008 08:06 AM +
fooch in Down The Rabbit Hole
Heehee! First thing in the morning..can hardly stop laughing!
I think that monkey is leering at someone.
+ November 20, 2008 08:21 AM +
Dust gets in your eye
Something about the face made me think "what you lookin at, Willis?"
+ November 20, 2008 08:43 AM +
Jolene summer in Left Oz.
I actually grew up in the town where he wrote the wizard of oz : p

&& yeah we have yellow bricked sidewalks.

So you can imagine how intense this made me laugh.

& miss home a little.

: )
+ November 20, 2008 08:45 AM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
Freddie Mercury and David Johansen had a baby!
+ November 20, 2008 08:45 AM +
Lets get busy in the backseat
This completely creeps me out!!!!
+ November 20, 2008 08:50 AM +
kwyncee in aere aedificare
@ baby basil, happy anniversary!

i am digging this monkey's sense of style. i like to match my hair to my outfit as well.
+ November 20, 2008 08:54 AM +
L
Now in Technicolor!
+ November 20, 2008 09:24 AM +
Thoughts in complete
I feel like I should be smoking pot and trying to sync up Pink Floyd.
+ November 20, 2008 09:28 AM +
Ice9 in Arnold's office in 'mento
Looks like something hand built by Rob Cockerham.
+ November 20, 2008 09:38 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
This is the photo from a 'Wanted Criminal' poster on the wall of the Post Office.

What happened was that the flying monkey came into town and rented a clown costume. After disguising himself, he made his way over to the birthday party claiming to be the entertainment. He talked everyone into a quick game of "Reverse Blind Man's Bluff" [that's the version where only one person is NOT blindfolded]. Once everyone had their blindfolds on, this sneaky-flying-monkey-monkey-disguised-as-a-clown scooped up his kipnap victim: UNO the puppy!

Unfurling his wings, the monkey/clown took off for the witch's castle so that they could post a photo of the terrified canine on the Internet and demand their ransom (see copy of photo on earlier Found Magazine posting).

Luckily, one of the other partygoers had snapped this photo of the nefarious kidnapping monkey earlier on and the FBI could use it on the wanted poster.

A practice run for the famous Toto dognapping? A slip-up on the part of the usually careful Flying Monkey Gang? Or simply a result of the obsessively misplaced affections of one of UNO's many jilted lovers? Maybe a combination of all three? You decide. All I can say is that we're not in Kansas any more.
+ November 20, 2008 10:28 AM +
Sammy Davis Junior Jr
This is the cover of the new Kimya Dawson cd

(boohya!!!)
+ November 20, 2008 11:04 AM +
mlm in texas
Gah! This brought back many memories of being terrified while watching "The Wizard of Oz"! The monkeys ALWAYS scared me, along with the scene where the witch's feet roll up under the house. Ooooh, I hope I don't have nightmares tonight! (Oh we oh, we-oh, oh!)
+ November 20, 2008 11:09 AM +
Carla Sue, glad there are no flying monkeys in Indiana
Congrats Baby Basil, and I'm sooo sorry, Mona.
This one made me go "YIKES".
That's it.. just "YIKES".
+ November 20, 2008 12:03 PM +
21skulls in love with a star wars fan
as if i needed more nightmare fuel...
+ November 20, 2008 12:08 PM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
Yo-lee-oh! Yoh-ho!
+ November 20, 2008 12:52 PM +
Terrie-Is-So-Very in totally-unique-ville
Surrender Kimya.


Happy Anniversary!! Baby Basil.
+ November 20, 2008 01:20 PM +
DivaJean in Syracuse
Hey Jolene Summer! When I was a kid, I sponsored one of the yellow bricks in your town! (Canastota, rigtht?)
+ November 20, 2008 01:22 PM +
Mom Interrupted in Kansas
That monkey was supposed to be looking for clothes that were blown 10 miles down the road by the tornado (F-5, dude) when this picture was taken.

You just KNOW he looks so smug 'cause he has an iPod, drinks, a phone, a mallet and keys stashed in his chest hair. I hope he steps in a Puddle of Doom and ruins his beautiful day.

Kimya loves you Monkey.


@basil: Congrats on 25 years!
+ November 20, 2008 01:40 PM +
Librarian in the woodwork
@ Mom Interrupted ... Thanks for that!
+ November 20, 2008 02:32 PM +
jolenesummer in new yorkk
Ahh

actually chittenango
: )
but close enough
haha
+ November 20, 2008 05:36 PM +
Smallbear in the Cave
What did Henry Youngman think when he first saw this picture?

Take my flying monkey, please!
+ November 20, 2008 05:37 PM +
Smallbear in the Cave
Happy happy anniverary Baby Basil and wife!
+ November 20, 2008 05:39 PM +
Night in gale
Check out "Monkee Astronaut" with 109 comments. Those were the days.
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/2098

Happy Anni, Baby Basil. (I always thought B.B. was the wife....)

+ November 20, 2008 06:07 PM +
Smallbear in the Cave
@Nightingale You may be right. Wrote my comment without thinking about it first.
+ November 20, 2008 06:34 PM +
chrome in the far corner of the cosmic kitchen
I LOVE Monkee Astronaut! (much better flying monkey than anything from the W of O) happy anniversary, Baby Basil! 25 years is most impressive!
+ November 20, 2008 06:45 PM +
Night in gale
I know you do, Chrome! I was surprised you didn't link us up earlier!
+ November 20, 2008 06:50 PM +
Lolita
Curious George?
+ November 20, 2008 07:37 PM +
fooch in Down The Rabbit Hole
This find is great and I have enjoyed all the comments today. Lolita, Curious George looks more than a little curious to me!
+ November 20, 2008 08:37 PM +
failing miserably in my mission today. Ah well.
(I probably would have, but I didn't check in until LATE today.)

+ November 20, 2008 09:01 PM +
baby basil in the herb garden
Thank y'all...we had a nice decadent lunch. Ate and drank a bit too much. If anyone out there has access to "Viña Aljibe" wines, I can heartily recommend their red or rosé. (Are there, or are there not, 2 c's in "recommend"? We got spam protection but no spellcheck on Found.)Couldn't imagine why it went to my head so until I realised they no longer sell half-bottles at that restaurant, only 3/4s. Ah. Yes. That would account for needing my spouse to do the dessert run for me. LOL

A beautiful cold, crisp fall day...good company, good food, good wine. I'm up for another 25!
+ November 21, 2008 05:17 AM +
morn in g came too soon upon the heels of Karaoke Thursday.
Woo Hoo! Go Baby Basil!

onto the Find: Every time I look at this picture, for some reason it reminds me of Lucille Ball. Something in that crafty gleam in the eye and the bright red lips.
+ November 21, 2008 10:36 AM +
ratty bumppo
I dig that manly chest hair.
+ November 21, 2008 12:39 PM +
Just me in my house
I never understood why kids got so scared of the flying monkeys. They're just flying monkeys. The part that always creeped me out was when the ruby slippers came off the dead witch's feet and then her feet curled up and slid underneath the house. Now that was ugly.
+ November 21, 2008 11:18 PM +
Bungle in the jungle
I don't know about him, honey. He just looks like he's up to no good.
+ November 25, 2008 01:21 PM +
hangin' out in smoke-filled pool halls till all hours
I know a guy who occasionally has hair EXACTLY that color.
+ April 22, 2009 10:57 PM +

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