Lio by Mark Tatulli for January 06, 2025

See Sea Monkey , see sea money do.

Spending the day monkeying around…

A joke that most folks under 40? 50? 60? won’t get.

Why aren’t the rhesus monkeys eating peanut butter candy?

I wonder who came up with Sea Monkeys. It was always interesting to read the back covers of comic books for all the amazing things you could waste your money on. What if you had no money, Sell GRIT!!

I never bought the sea monkeys because I had a friend who was a tropical fish enthusiast. “They’re just brine shrimp. They sell them as food. They cost about a dollar for a hundred.”

Put them all in a barrel and have some fun.

LOL. Yeah, no. But thanks for the nostalgic memories. One of these days I hope to try raising some brine shrimp again.

Sea Monkeys are much cheaper at the fish store, where they’re labeled “Brine Shrimp Eggs”.

Even young people can have old comic books. Of course they pack them in Mylar and don’t read them let alone the ads…..

all we need now are the brass monkeys

Where are the grease monkeys? And positively, definitely, do not put the powder monkeys in an enclosed space.

Shouldn’t they be hidden at a top-secret government compound somewhere?

It’s funny, I learned about brine shrimp from a kid across the street before I knew anything about Sea Monkeys. I think his dad got them as fish food.

Usually it’s the rhesus monkeys that get used for weird science experiments.