Did the toy come first, or did the group name come first?
Also, a "gaze of raccoons." Ha! I love these.
"A barrel of monkeys"
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Re: "A barrel of monkeys"
Wikipedia says that the phrase is older than the game.
Re: "A barrel of monkeys"
Google ngram viewer also shows hits from before 1965 for the phrase: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?co ... g=3&share=