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Psychic spider monkey predicts Gingrich win in New Hampshire
New York Daily News ^
| 1/09/2012
| Barry Paddock
Posted on 01/09/2012 10:27:19 PM PST by Lattero
Maybe Grandpa should stick to sports predictions.
The psychic spider monkey at the Staten Island Zoo picked Newt Gingrich as the top banana in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, even though he’s languishing in the polls.
And the soothsaying simian completely rejected front-runner Mitt Romney in Monday’s electoral challenge set up by the Daily News.
Even the zoo’s curator, Peter Laline, admitted it was unlikely Grandpa’s longshot would pay off in the Granite State.
“Perhaps Grandpa has other plans we’re not aware of. Maybe Grandpa started vetting the vice presidential candidates early,” Laline said.
The 40-year-old monkey has a good record when it comes to athletics: he picked the Super Bowl champions and six of nine U.S. Open tennis winners.
When he entered the rain-forest exhibit on Monday, he was confronted with six bananas nestled in hay, each one bearing the name of a GOP candidate.
Without hesitation, he lunged for the Gingrich banana, then grabbed the Jon Huntsman banana in his other hand.
But the former House Speaker held more sway than the ex-Utah governor over Grandpa. He gobbled up Newt first — then picked up the Rick Santorum banana.
Next went the Rick Perry banana before he finally developed an appetite for Huntsman.
Romney’s win at the Iowa caucus and his first-place finish in the latest polls didn’t mean a thing to Grandpa.
His banana was eaten by a female companion — just like the one for Ron Paul, who is running a distant second in the New Hampshire polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: gingrich; monkey; napl; newt; ronpaul
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:27:22 PM PST
by
Lattero
To: Lattero
“Psychic spider monkey” . . . NYDN getting into witchcraft?
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:28:24 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Lattero
Uh Huh.
Why don't y'all just have a 'chicken drop' to pick the nominee?
3
posted on
01/09/2012 10:28:35 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
LOL. I’ve won some and lost a lot on chicken drops.
4
posted on
01/09/2012 10:29:57 PM PST
by
VicVega
(GEAUX SAINTS-LSU bleaux it in the BCS Championship game.)
To: Lattero
5
posted on
01/09/2012 10:32:38 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: VicVega
Yep. Kinda soured me on BINGO.
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:33:14 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: VicVega
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:34:50 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Lattero
You can’t beat a spider monkey when it comes to psychic predictions. Orb spiders are a close second.
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:36:32 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Smokin' Joe
If the psychic spider monkey is wrong, can the winner make soup out of it?
9
posted on
01/09/2012 10:36:49 PM PST
by
VicVega
(GEAUX SAINTS-LSU bleaux it in the BCS Championship game.)
To: mylife
10
posted on
01/09/2012 10:37:30 PM PST
by
VicVega
(GEAUX SAINTS-LSU bleaux it in the BCS Championship game.)
To: TigersEye
Oh yeah! Orb spiders are right on!
You open the door at 5 AM and BINGO! There they are in your face! LOL
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:38:49 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: VicVega
12
posted on
01/09/2012 10:39:46 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: VicVega
BTW,
You know what that white stuff on top of chicken **** is?
“More chicken ****”
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:42:26 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
Never heard of it. Truly funny.
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:43:02 PM PST
by
VicVega
(GEAUX SAINTS-LSU bleaux it in the BCS Championship game.)
To: VicVega
Well, it’s 40 years old, might be too tough for pot roast...
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:43:55 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Lattero; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Psychic monkey follow-up ping!
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:44:25 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: mylife
That’s why I sleep in. I can’t take spiders in the face.
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:47:05 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Lattero
Guess the question we really should ask is, “how many voters in NH will actually go vote for Newt to prove the monkey right”?
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:48:38 PM PST
by
VicVega
(GEAUX SAINTS-LSU bleaux it in the BCS Championship game.)
To: TigersEye
Scares the hell out of ya don’t it!
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:48:55 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
There's nothing in the future I want to know bad enough to deal with it.
And I can't afford a spider monkey.
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posted on
01/09/2012 10:53:48 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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