Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia • "A barrel of monkeys"

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"A barrel of monkeys"

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:09 am

by UffishThought

Did the toy come first, or did the group name come first?

Also, a "gaze of raccoons." Ha! I love these.

Re: "A barrel of monkeys"

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:59 pm

by yayfulness

Wikipedia says that the phrase is older than the game.

Re: "A barrel of monkeys"

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:23 am

by Katya

Google ngram viewer also shows hits from before 1965 for the phrase: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?co ... g=3&share=