GrinningMonkey:About

From GrinningMonkey

The Order of the Grinning Monkey is a group of like-minded people who believe in a passionate, happy life amidst a society of sourpusses.

The idea for it came about when somebody expressed their belief that there are no happy, passionate people anymore in this civil servant society of ours, and then challenged me to prove them wrong. I replied with:

Yes, there are happy and passionate people left here. We've all banded
together, though, to defend ourselves and fight back against those whose
sourpuss attitudes would bring us down.
                                                                                
In the streets we wear frowns and dour disguises so nobody can tell who we are.
If you're very observant you'll spot our secret signs and handshakes (I can't
tell you what they are yet 'cause I don't know where you stand on this
important issue). We also have a few telltales that give us away:
                                                                                
* We'll put coins in somebody else's parking meter if nobody's looking;
* We dance in the streets, but if somebody spots us we pretend as if we'd just
  tripped and then keep walking;
* We sing out loud in our cars (if somebody catches us we hastily pick up a
  cellphone and pretend as if we're yelling angrily on it).
                                                                                
We call ourselves the Order of the Grinning Monkey. Meetings are spontaneous
(we get text messages on our phones and if we're near a meeting we'll stop in)
and our meeting clubs are cleverly disguised as dull government office
buildings, like the passport office and the health card office downtown. If you
look closely at the elevator buttons you'll see our stylized secret grinning
monkey logo (it's disguised as an 8 but if you rub it the right way, the ears,
eyes and huge grin become visible for a second).

... and thus was born the Order of the Grinning Monkey. To show the Grinning Monkey logo (see note below) is to declare that you have a positive, optimistic attitude in a sea of cynics.

NOTE BELOW

The Grinning Monkey logo is a copyrighted trademark of Gnurple Services. Our logo may not be reproduced without permission. Those who do not wish to support the Order of the Grinning Monkey by purchasing our Grinning Monkey products are welcome to create their own original artwork. Then again, if they don't want to support us, just how happy and passionate are they, really?

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