People ask us why we're named Archermonkey. Now that you mention it, it is
a bit weird. Well when Ju-Lin and I were looking at names for a site we
looked a lot of site names... and would you believe it many non-obvious
names are taken. Julin.com is taken by
some stupid printing company 1, my
friend who's last name is Juip is now home to Jim's unofficial Iomega
page... Even
Everythingistaken.com is taken. So anyway we began typing random
things into the web registration site. Our original next choice was Spidermonkey.com
and that apparently is taken. We decided we would not be left in the dust
of the information superhighway and sprung for Archermonkey.com ... and
the rest is history. Well... you're thinking what the hell does that tell
me...
what the heck is an Archermonkey. Well being the highly cultured people
we are we took our inspiration from Sifl and Olly a MTV Show with sock puppets as hosts.
They are no longer on the air, (rumors abound to maybe an internet only
version in the future).
It's taken from one of the regular segments from their show, "Calls from
the Public", and their landlord calls in ... well ya just gotta hear
it...Here's
the sound file(you need an MP3 player... left click and save the
file to your desktop... mac users... hold down the mouse button or
whatever). Ju-Lin and I just bust out
laughing and that's it... such a long story for a stupid point I know...
tough crap for you. ( I had some problems with the mp3 download... if
you're really interested... I'll email it to you (bryantwu@archermonkey.com). )
Here's a transcript for those of you who can't hear it.
LANDLORD:You sons of bitches are in trouble.
OLLY2 :
Uh Oh
SIFL:I'm sorry, Who is this?
L: You know damn well who this is, you little punk, it's your
landlord.
S: Uh dude, I'm sorry, if it's about the tourbus in the drive way, don't
worry about it, it's Metallica's. They're leaving tomrrow after the
show.
L: Tourbus? what.. what.. I'm calling because I drove by the property and
there's a fricking moat around my building, what the hell is going on?
O: Oh yeah
S: What exactly do you mean when you say "moat"?
L: You know damn well what I'm talking about, i'm talking about the giant
trench around the building and all those alligators in it.
O: Ya know actually it's crocodiles, we're trying to protect the
property.
S: Yeah
L: Well those alligators are dangerous and a couple of the neighbor kids
are missing.
S: Hey, the signs are clearly posted, dude.
L: I want that moat filled in or you guys are out of there
S: Yeah well try to kick us out, let see if you can get past the
drawbridge and our archermonkeys
L: Why you little...
[click]
S: Oh... sorry about that one folks, we'll see ya in a second
O: Bye
S: See ya
1 I actually emailed
this company and they explained their name to me.
2 I have hard time
telling Sifl and Olly apart
from their voices alone. I've done the best I can here, if you have some
insight let me know. Better yet if you have a video clip that would be
wonderful.
DISCLAIMER:
From peggycleeton@julin.com Sun Jul 22 12:46:44 2001
From: Peggy Cleeton
I did not ask her permission to print her email. I consider it free
advertisement for her company. Please don't sue us. We have no money
anyway.
MTV and "Sifl and Olly" are trademarks of MTV Networks. We mean no
disrespect. And to Julin.com we don't really think you're a stupid
printing company even if you stole my friend's soul and turned it into a
web page. No apologies to Jim's Unofficial Iomega page since it's just THE
Unofficial Iomega page now and that's silly to have it juip.com