Beware of Fake Monkey Automatons

rkinch writes "The Mechanical Music Digest gives this warning about bogus monkey automatons that seem to be flooding the antiques market. These supposedly 19th-century hookah-smoking shrunken monkey heads are actually clever modern reproductions tricked up to look old. That "Marvo the Magic Monkey" specimen hanging on your wall may not really date back to 1879."

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have you seen any of these?

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MSCEs look and act like programers. Sometimes they can be lead into the light. Sometimes they can't. It's hard to tell. Beware.

Re:Shameful

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Pardaun moua Miusser, but du you have a Lice-sonce for your Mingkey?

What did you say?

Do you have a Lice-sONce for your Mingkey?

Mingkey? What do you mean?

Mingkey! Mingkey! Chimpanzee Minkey!