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Zoo Pays Feng Shui Expert to Aid Monkeys
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| 2/13/07
Posted on 02/14/2007 1:40:27 PM PST by verum ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Zoo paid $4,500 to an expert in the ancient Chinese art of feng shui to ensure three endangered golden monkeys on loan from China can have a strong life force.
Consulting the feng shui expert was part of the cost for a $7.4 million enclosure for the golden monkeys debuting at the zoo later his year. Feng shui focuses on balance in design to promote health and happiness.
Feng shui is in demand among high-end architects and interior designers, but Beverly Hills-based feng shui expert Simona Mainini said the Los Angeles Zoo's effort may be a first in animal enclosure design
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fengshui; la; monkeys
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LA'ers: your tax dollars at work
And regardless of your position on evolution, you'll especially love this little gem brought to you by our friends ignorance and stupidity:
"It's very experimental. We don't have any books on feng shui for monkeys. We just have to assume that Darwin is correct and that there is a connection and what is good for humans is good for monkeys."
priceless
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:40:32 PM PST
by
verum ago
To: verum ago
"Three endangered golden monkeys on loan from China "
Loans over, send them back.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:43:37 PM PST
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: verum ago
The zoo grants are federal level. I'm sure California has local level grants too; but the big ones involve all our tax money.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:44:23 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: edcoil
Next, they will apply for green cards.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:45:01 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: verum ago
Don't those liberals out there know there are children starving in Africa?
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:48:00 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Calpernia
When calling companies for assistance"
Press 1 - English
Press 2 - Spanish (Mexican actually, Spain hates mexico)
Press 3 - Monkey
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:49:34 PM PST
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: patton
those are some high maintenance critters...sigh!
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:50:47 PM PST
by
leda
(The quiet girl on the stairs.)
To: edcoil
We may need a few more Chinese consultants to teach the monkies voice mail.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:50:57 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Calpernia
The zoo grants are federal level. I'm sure California has local level grants too; but the big ones involve all our tax money.
thanks. well isn't that just great.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:51:31 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: edcoil
Bank of America already has credit cards available. Let the monkies pay their own consultants.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:51:41 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: verum ago
Enjoy your life in LA, suckers!
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:59:06 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
To: verum ago
""So when people see that a species is endangered, maybe they'll feel motivated to do something to save them." Golden monkeys, which weigh about 30 pounds, have blue faces, long hair and make a catlike meow."
And they taste like chicken.
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:01:59 PM PST
by
hometoroost
(TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
To: hometoroost
Now you've done it. Haven't you been over to the PETA KFC thread yet?
-PJ
To: verum ago
I have a big chainsaw. Will somebody please let me saw California off the US and push that sorry POS out to sea?
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:09:33 PM PST
by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
To: hometoroost
""So when people see that a species is endangered, maybe they'll feel motivated to do something to save them." The monkey swing set is 15° off and is misfocusing the monkeys' auras. [Grunt, scoot, scoot, scoot] There, it's in the right place now and I did something to save them.
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:13:15 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
To: verum ago
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:16:02 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: verum ago
While some of it is decorating and architectural common sense, I call most of it:
BULL-SHUI
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:17:39 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: verum ago
Well, we absolutely know that feng shui works because of all the good its done for the Chinese: starvation, female infanticide, organ harvesting, slave camps, firing squads, etc.
To: Gingersnap
We're trying to sell my late father-in-law's house. The realtor, who is an older gentleman, just took a course in feng-shui and advised us to paint the front door red. He claims it will make it sell faster. He forgets that the house is cream colored with green trim. Boy, would that be ugly.
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:46:19 PM PST
by
surrey
To: verum ago
How does one Feng Shui thrown monkey poop? LOL!
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posted on
02/14/2007 2:47:55 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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