Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo

Subject: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:11 PM

This seems like a highly ape-propriate subject for a song challenge.
(Ducking tomatoes ... )

Escaped chimp raids kitchen, cleans toilet

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Associated Press
Jan. 17, 2007 08:27 AM

"LITTLE ROCK - An escaped chimpanzee at the Little Rock Zoo raided a kitchen cupboard and did a little cleaning with a toilet brush before sedatives knocked her out on top of a refrigerator.

The 120-pound primate, Judy, escaped Tuesday into a service area when a zookeeper opened a door to her sleeping quarters, unaware the animal was still inside.

As keepers tried to woo Judy back into her cage, she rummaged through a refrigerator where chimp snacks are stored. She opened kitchen cupboards, pulled out juice and soft drinks and took swigs from bottles she managed to open.

"Then she went in the bathroom and picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet," primate keeper Ann Rademacher said. "Her technique was good enough to make me think she must have done it before."

The 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before arriving at the zoo in 1988.   Rademacher said that might explain how Judy knew how to wring out a sponge and scrub down the fridge.

The chimp accepted a strawberry yogurt laced with a sedative. When it didn't work, keepers waited until she was distracted by more food and injected her.

Within five minutes, she fell asleep on top of the refrigerator with half a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread she had pulled out of the freezer.

The zoo veterinarian gave Judy a drug to bring her around and she seemed groggy but otherwise fine, Rademacher said.

Zoo spokeswoman Susan Altrui said there was no danger that Judy would get out of the primate service area and onto zoo grounds."

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For slightly different narratives of the same clean-freak chimp episode, go here .

Got yer poetic license handy and yer pens poised?

Great!

Proceed! §;-D

Genie

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:17 PM

Yeah, sure:

Zoo spokeswoman Susan Altrui said there was no danger that Judy would get out of the primate service area and onto zoo grounds."

Send her over to my place. She appears to be a better housekeeper than anyone of us living here. (And she'd probably work pretty cheap.)

John

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:18 PM

Ooops -

But that might mean I'd have Chongo hanging around.

Ferget it.

John

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:19 PM

Well, it's said that elephants will work for peanuts. Maybe Judy would work for bananas?

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:46 PM

Why do so many weird stories come out of Little Rock?

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:53 PM

Dunno, but maybe you could work that into the song? ;-D

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:46 AM

Isn't Little Rock the place where they don't believe in evolution.
If that is what their chimps are capable of, it probably proves that the people in Little Rock didn't bother evolving at all...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:54 AM

My name is Judy and I'm thirty seven,
I learnt to clean house when I was eleven.
I'm not sure why but they locked me away,
But I was determined to escape one day.

A warden left my cell door open wide,
He hadn't realised I was still inside.
That's one Tuesday, I will never forget,
I had the greatest time in my life as yet.

I went to the toilet for some light relief,
The pan was filthy much beyond belief.
I cleaned it with the brush, it looked so neat,
So white and shiny and smelling sweet

I went to the kitchen with great delight,
I guess all the wardens were quite uptight.
I raided the cupboards and took my fill,
To those in charge it was a bitter pill.

The juice and soft drinks never tasted so good,
I'd have spent more time there if I could.
But the wardens found me, what a teaser,
With cinnamon/raisin bread I took from the freezer.

The yoghurt they offered me was such a good bribe,
The taste of strawberry I can't describe.
I fell asleep on the refrigerator,
Found myself in my cell a short time later.

I didn't get punished, I was real surprised,
My warden laughed as he looked in my eyes.
He said "You're not going away and leaving me.
You're my favourite chimpanzee.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 06:38 AM

Makes you wonder what the previous owners made her do....

If a chimp can clean toilets, why can't men?

LTS

Ducking and hiding with Genie....

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:38 AM

They tend to leave the seat up ready for the women to do it.....well some do anyway!

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: Genie
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 02:47 PM

Great song, GeorgianSilver! Especially the last verse.

Liz, I think you've got your song title right there in your question! *g*

G

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Escaped chimp cleans loo
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 02:56 PM

Good song .
Heard one on a similar theme last year at the Knockrockry singing festival in Roscommon about a monkey which escaped from Belfast Zoo and got entangled with the religious factions (and the police and army) That one lasted about fifteen minutes.
Cheers,
Jim Carroll