Results: Surveys are more fun than a barrel full of monkeys!
Published on 09/16/2015
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There are lots of monkey sayings. Which ones have you heard, please note the time the phrase was coined.
More fun than a barrel full of monkeys (alludes to the playful behavior of these primates., 1895)
61%
1027 votes
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle (earliest example is the phrase: If that's a joke I'm a monkey's uncle, from an Ohio newspaper; 1925)
56%
932 votes
Monkey house (used for political jokes, monkey houses = parliament, psychiatric hospital., 1900s)
14%
227 votes
Monkey wrench (To cause obstruction, Edward Abbey, an American author and essayist, whose 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang follows a group of radical environmentalists as they protest land development in the American West)
53%
881 votes
Monkey see, monkey do (imitate, is a pidgin-style saying that appeared in American culture in the early 1920s)
64%
1071 votes
Got a monkey on my back (emerged in the 1800s, someone who was bothered by something that wouldn't go away, 1940s = addiction)
49%
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Brass monkey (The two balls are traditionally mounted on brass arms, which were called 'monkeys' by sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries.)
32%
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Knew all
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Knew none
14%
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Do you regularly use any of the above phrases?
I use all of them
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65 votes
I use a few of them
35%
581 votes
I use maybe one
17%
282 votes
Not sure, don't remember or keep track
15%
257 votes
No
29%
486 votes
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Which of these monkey facts do you know?
The word monkey comes from: Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in a medieval animal story.
4%
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Monkeys don't get sunburned.
8%
140 votes
The tip of a spider monkey's tail can support the full weight of his body... really!
13%
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Grinning or pulling the lip is not a
5%
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Monkeys are immune to the virus that causes the human
5%
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Knew all
3%
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Knew none
70%
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Monkey bread is said to look like fruits that monkeys eat. Its sticky, with butter and pecans. Which is true for you?
I've had it
30%
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I've made it
10%
171 votes
I've never had it
20%
333 votes
I want to make it
7%
112 votes
I'd like to taste it
17%
292 votes
Not sure
11%
188 votes
Not for me
20%
340 votes
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