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Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Cheetah Conspiracy


A Florida animal sanctuary has reported that the chimp who played Cheetah in the 1930s era Tarzan movies has died, but are they really trying to make a monkey out of us? Some experts are disputing the animal sanctuary's claim since they have no documentation that the chimp really was "the" Cheetah. Plus, if it was the same chimp, that would make it more than 80-years old when it died. Chimps rarely live more than 50 or 60 years.

The director of the animal sanctuary claims Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller gave Cheetah to the sanctuary around 1960 but all of the records of the donation were destroyed in a 1995 fire.

How convenient.

 Adding fuel to the fraudulent flames are some Hollywood accounts that suggest a chimpanzee by the name of Mr. Jiggs played Cheetah but died in 1938.

 So who was this mystery chimp who pretended to be Cheetah all of these years? And why would Tarzan call his chimp Cheetah anyway when his name for his son was boy? Why wouldn't he have followed the same naming conventions and call his chimp, "chimp?" And if Tarzan had kept a pet Cheetah, would he have named it "chimp?" And technically, Tarzan was supposedly raised by apes, not chimps, so shouldn't he have hung out with a young gorilla? Or would that have caused a jungle scandal? Which begs the question as to what was the true relationship between Tarzan and Cheetah? Did it change drastically when Jane came on the scene?

All of these questions will remain unanswered. Because whether or not the Florida chimp was the real Cheetah, the chimp who played him has definitely gone to that big tree house in the sky.

And chimps can't talk even if it wasn't dead.

4 comments:

Benignjamin said...

Say, Who's that Greek girl started following you around. Angelina?
she likes pink.

Time said...

As Elvis once said before a recording of White Christmas, "It's Greek to me." You aren't going to tell me it is another of Mickey's alter egos, are you?

Benignjamin said...

She goes by other names...
σσσσςς...!! Διχασμένη Προσωπικότητα (ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ)

ssssss ...!! Divided Personality (IMPORTANT)

She is what/whom ever, she needs can be.
So it goes...

Time said...

I've always considered people with divided personalities following my blog a bonus. I get multiple readers from one person. It really helps the stats.