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The Key to Understanding Life

James Schlarmann
If you had to choose between a monkey and a microphone which would you choose? I'd probably choose the monkey, but I know I'd probably second-guess my decision as soon as I made it, either way. I mean, a monkey provides you endless opportunities to finally master the art of crochet. Yet a microphone lets your voice be louder than everyone else's so maybe the microphone would be better.

Monkey Pro: Never have to drive yourself home after a long night of drinking or smoking drugs.

Monkey Con: Monkeys are notoriously bad tippers.

Microphone Pro: Always a chance for an impromptu karaoke party.

Microphone Con: Feedback.

As you can tell, this is not a debate that can be solved easily. This will probably take the think tanks years and years to suss out the right answer. So I will just for now leave it with this final thought:

If you gave anyone five dollars they might spend it. But if you give someone five high-fives...

See what I mean?

Published by James Schlarmann - Featured Contributor in Arts & Entertainment

Writer, musician, comedian and social commentator. James started performing stand-up and sketch comedy in 1998, and has since also branched out into writing movie reviews and social commentary on social and...  View profile

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