Contrary to what some
people are saying, Primate Nooz publisher Arnett Putney,
III and executive editor Widen Lundale, Jr. have had extensive
experience with primatology newspapers. Before coming
to Hellmouth, the pair had been assistant publisher and assistant
executive editor at PRIMATE LIFE, and before that copy
editor and circulation manager for Primate Week, and
before that paper flattener and ink stainer for the docent
newsletter of the Hellmouth Zoo Association, where they worked
on the monkey section. They now live in adjoining condos
on an exclusive block of Vine St. and are at the office at
7am every morning except Wednesday, when they play badminton
until 9. Mr. Putney has an extensive collection of antique
French crossbows, and Mr. Lundale likes to go parasailing
on Lake Runnamuck. Mr. Putney has a Lexus, and Mr. Lundale
has a BMW.
It is now generally recognized
that Professor Rolf Sigurd Vanhammerfest is quite crazy, and
has been for at least six decades. Ever since his article
came out in 1928 ["Why I Believe That Monkeys Originated
in Snowbound Climates and Not in the Tropics," Colonial
Paleoprimatology Review, 138:77-95], no reputable worker
in the field has considered him anything but a loon. One
wonders why such respected journals as the Record of the
Nordic Society and Natural Geographic and such
outstanding publishing companies as Bruce W. Bruce and Bruce
would continue to sponsor his ravings. Most primatologists
are apparently too afraid of him to say anything, but Primate
Nooz isn't afraid of anything. We don't care if he is
102! He's loony and that's the end of it. Monkeys
didn't originate in snowbound climates at all. Really,
they didn't.
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