A Year in the Life 
        of a Czech Plush Monkey.  | 
  
This week's Monkeying 
        around.  | 
  
|   Opice not Opus Allow me to clarify... While the webmaster has the floor, he'd like to clear up some confusion overheard: Monkey's name is not "Opus." Opice and Opus 
        share many attributes; but they are very different non-beings.  | 
      Berkeley Breathed autograph 
        & original artwork ![]()  | 
  
          "What? You can't pronounce my name?"  | 
    ![]() 1 of these things is not like the other.  | 
            ![]() "Hey! Ape / Penguin, hello!?"  | 
  
| Opice = OH-pits-zeh | Opus = OH-pus (sorry about that 2nd sylable) | 
| Opice is Czech meaning "monkey" and worse. | Opus is Latin meaning "work," which is bad enough. | 
| Opice is arboreal, but prefers the tv couch. | Opus is aquatic, but prefers the Sunday papers. | 
| Opice only speaks thru his webmaster (a.k.a. slave). | Opus speaks for himself and his slave (a.k.a. panelmaster). | 
| Opice has never had a nose-job. | Opus has had both a nose job and unjob renose... job. | 
| Opice has no self-esteem issues unless you count megalomania. | Opus thought finding his mother would solve his problems (note past tense). | 
|   Both are 
        flightless, unpredictable, obsessive, caracatures who love classic Star 
        Trek tv and that boffo new film Secondhand 
        Lions.  | 
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|   Neither 
        are anatomically or politically correct, nor show any visible means of 
        support. Yet one might say they are userer friendly.  | 
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| Opus has never heard of Monkey. | Monkey has Opus's complete opus of literary opuses. | 
| Opus is loved and appreciated by millions of readers worldwide. | Monkey is appreciated and loved by tens of world-wide-web surfers. | 
| Opus has been known to wear a fruit covered hat. | Monkey is known to have fruit (and Carmen Miranda tendancies). | 
| Opus travels at warp zillion speed. | Monkey once hitched a ride on a wheelchair. | 
| Opus lives in a world populated by basselopes and uppity roaches. | Monkey lives in a world of lowly roachmotels (but at least they have cable). | 
|   They regularly 
        defy their caregivers and go off on wild adventures at the drop of a (fruit 
        covered) hat.  | 
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|   Each costs 
        his chronicler hours of journalistic work recording their sudden, rapturous 
        exploits.  | 
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|   One has 
        attitude; the other neuroses, but it's a constant game of "you're 
        it!" as to which has what.  | 
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