Cheetah RIP

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  1. jdog

    jdog I like beer!

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    I heard this through the grape vine but for those old enough to remember Cheetah was a real swinger.


    Cheetah the chimpanzee, who played Tarzan’s sidekick in the 1930s films, died on Christmas Eve of kidney failure at age 80, according to the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Fla.

    Debbie Cobb, the outreach director of the sanctuary, told the Tampa Tribune that Cheetah always seemed in tuned to human feelings. Cobb said the chimp was very outgoing and reportedly loved finger painting. But sanctuary volunteer Rob Priest said that when the chimp didn’t like what was going on he would throw feces.

    Cheetah starred alongside American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, and lived on the actor’s estate until sometime around 1960, when he came to the sanctuary. The chimp played the comic relief in the Tarzan films, which were based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories about a man raised by apes in Africa.
     
  2. JCBRAVE

    JCBRAVE goTitans 2019 Survivor Champion

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    Chimps live that long? Wow. Every Chimp I know who died was shot by police.
     
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  3. jdog

    jdog I like beer!

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    Are you say we lost some forum members? :)
     
  4. CRUDS

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    Whew.. Thought for a minute you were talking about Cheetah Chrome, (who now resides in Nashville BTW).
    Now that would have been a freaking disaster!

    I know one of the Tarzans - his name is Steve Sipek. One of the strangest dudes of all time..
     
  5. Deuce Wayne

    Deuce Wayne NOW Y'ALL GET THE MESSICH?!

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    The only good monkey is a dead one. So... not too upset by this.
     
  6. JCBRAVE

    JCBRAVE goTitans 2019 Survivor Champion

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    That's how some people in my town feel. We once had a chimp get loose and run around downtown, then he stole a car, then he attacked the cops and they shot him 8 times.

    I like those little monkys that steal your food on vacation, the big ones are creepy.
     
  7. Deuce Wayne

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    My daughter was bitten by someone's "pet" monkey. Will always have a bad scar on her arm for the rest of her life from it.

    The same owners of said monkey had 2 get loose later, attack a police officer, and bite a neighbor.

    The owners still claim it's everyone else's fault- the monkeys only attack if they "sense the fear in ya"...
     
  8. Titans Eternal

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    Monkey woulda died. Monkeys are bitches, I would roll with a gorilla. Mizz U Mighty Joe Young
     
  9. Big TT

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    When I was a kid, friends of ours had a pet squirrel monkey. I remember it being sort of mean, wasn't big enough to do any real harm but if you didn't watch out it would steal your food, stuff like that. I also remember it being really mean to the that families dog, it would get up high on a book shelf or whatever and then jump down on the poor dog, grab its tail, crap like that. You could just tell it was F'ing with the dog.
     
  10. jdog

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    Monkeys are famous for throwing feces at those they don't like. Much like an internet forum.
     
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