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Beware of Fake Monkey Automatons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-opposed-to-real-monkey-automatons dept.

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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  1. News for nerds by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 2, Redundant

    News for garage salers. Stuff that doesn't FUCKING MATTER at all to a small subculture of freaky linux types

    Do the monkeys run on Linux?

    WTF?

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