Review: Monkeyshines

Monkeyshines is the bastard son of Miss Poppycock and Sir Balderdash. Bastardized by being american that is. Monkey shines roots likely stem from something racist, although it is likely just a derogatory towards monkeys in general. Being a predominantly Christian nation (as if!), we believed in the spirit of creation, and told kids evolution was when idiots lacked faith and enjoyed roust abouting too much. We hated monkey's so much, that a term "Monkeyshines" was created. Shines being in reference to attention grabbing. So when a schoolboy would galavant his confused emotions into, say, placing a tack on school madam's chair- he was compared to a less-than creature with similar human characteristics who would use slight tactics to draw attention to himself. As in "look at that monkey, that monkey is shining". My question is: why was this a bad thing? One hand says, this monkey isn't a descendant from human but it sure is having a fun time using wits about much like a human would. And the other, evolution believing, hand says that there is a common link being presented between a monkey and a boy of mischief. Sure we're degrading the boy, but aren't we in some way proclaiming the monkey's importance. The great joke on monkey shines is that the shine shines brightest on the monkey.