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Chris -- 2025-05-10
If you can have a monkey on your back, why not this too? Google returns lots of deliberate wordplay, but some apparently innocent uses as well:
You really have to have a chimp on your shoulder to make that cartoon into a racial slur.
forums.13x.com/archive/index.php/t-205378.html
The south is allowed to have a chimp on their shoulder because the north invaded the south. The left the union, legally …
www.genmay.com/showthread.php?t=163854&page=3
Landon is an undersized player who walks around with a chimp on his shoulder. You know else does? Sean Avery, Dustin Pedroia, Wes Welker, ...
mutualuniversity.blogspot.com/.../apparently-beckham-is-some-sort-of.html
... just just…you know what i’m saying, you know he always, you know he feels like he has a point to prove he walk around with a chimp on his shoulder …
fletwayscafe.splinder.com/post/17887722
I know very little about you, but it appears that you, sir, are the one with a chimp on your shoulder.
https://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic … =131748…
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That’s so…so weird.
Last edited by kem (2010-01-07 23:40:39)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I love it!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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