What's up with the "Monkey's Thing" on Google?

[BlueJazz]

Does it have anything to do with the SOTU the other night?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Today starts the Chinese New Year.

2004 is the year of the monkey.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

3. ahh, i was wondering myself, thanks.

[Zero Gravitas]

4. Yup the Year of the Monkey starts today

and it will end on Inauguration Day in 2005 at which point the Monkey will be sent back to its fake "ranch" in Texas.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. correction, * is an ape, a chimpanzee.

n/t

:evilgrin:

[corporatewhore]

2. maybe it has something to do with this

"Believe me, you must have credibility... Now, you take my role in Bedtime for Bonzo. I was a scientist who raised a chimp as a child in my home. It was a huge money-maker; terrific. People could believe in it. But then the studio decided to make a sequel called Bonzo Goes to College. I refused to play in it. It bombed. Who could believe a chimp could go to college and play on the football team? lacked credibility." --Ronald Reagan, New York, 28 April 1980 (cited in

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Anytime you see an out-of-the ordinary logo on Google...

you can just click on it to find out what's being commemorated.

[northzax]

6. it's an obvious reference

to eenie-meenie-miney-moe, catch a monkey by the toe, which is an obviously offensive nursery rhyme. I'm suing.