Recent absurd accusations by a certain petulant blogger recently brought up a phrase I hadn’t heard in over thirty years. Seems there is some confusion about the meaning of “porch monkey.”
Elderly Porch Monkeys
When I was growing up in semi-rural southern Ohio in the late ’60s and early ’70s, I remember it being used to describe poor kids having to play on the front porch during rainstorms, but a porch monkey was basically anyone passing the time away on a porch. It applied equally to whites as well as blacks, and is only mildly derogatory if at all — some folks even called themselves “porch monkeys” with pride.
So just to confirm my memory of the definition of the term, I searched for images on teh google. There are many more images of white porch monkeys than black. It’s not a racist term at all, just a funny combination of words, regardless of some racists’ attempts to redefine the phrase.
But then I found this video: Dr. David Manning presents “The Porch Monkey Report.” It gets funnier and more bizarre the longer you watch.
I’m grabbing a couple of cold ones and heading out to the porch. Any of you other porch monkeys here wanna join me for a game of Overnight Open Thread?
Tags: Dr. David Manning, false accusations, ignorance, LGF, porch monkeys, racists, Robert Stacy McCain
