Description
This whimsical scene displays a monkey swinging from a vine out of reach of his monkey jungle friends.
Message:
- Have a wild birthday!
- Aren’t you the wild one!
- In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.
- Let us show you the world!
- Let’s rumble in the jungle.
- Living among lions.
- Monkey see, monkey do.
- You’re a cheeky monkey.
- More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
- Monkey birthday!
- No monkey business here.
- I got jungle fever.
- You get the lion’s share.
- It’s a jungle out there.
- Let’s go bananas.
- You’re as brave as a lion.
- Go apeshit.
- Don’t beat around the bush.
- It’s Noah’s Ark!
- I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
Shel Silverstein has something to say about this:
The Monkey and the Elephant
Well, once the world was full of monkeys,
A long time ago.
And elephants with big long trunkies,
A long time ago.
And the elephants swarm in the Zazafram Sea,
And the monkeys swung from the zilibum tree,
And life was silly as it could be
A long time ago.
One day the elephant was feelin’ spunky,
A long time ago.
So he went to have a talk with the monkey,
A long time ago.
And the elephant said, “oh Lordy me,
I think I’m in love with the bumblebee.
Do you think she’s a little too small for me?”
A long time ago.
Now the monkey said, “You’re thinking like a donkey,
A long time ago.
She’s kinda small and you’re sorta chunky,
A long time ago.
So sit right down upon my knee.
I’ll tell you why your love can never be.
It’s a physical impossibility,
A long time ago.”
Now the elephant’s tears went plinkety plunky,
A long time ago.
And he went home to pack his trunkie,
A long time ago.
He said, “I see that bee was not for me.”
So he went and he married a little gray flea,
And they were as happy as they could be,
And they had children — one, two, three,
But if you want to know how, please don’t ask me,
It was a long time ago.
~poem by Shel Silverstein
Also see Birthday Train pop-up card.
