Best search engine description fragment on origin story of Monkey Man by the Maytals

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Option	Votes
I have an ugly brother and I want you to write a song about him	8
He may get vexed and want to knock me down	5
Leslie Kong's brother Fats is very ugly	0
And him say, 'Yeah, man! Go and write it!'	0

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 4 September 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link

I have an ugly brother and I want you to write a song about him

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 4 September 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link

i really like the word "vexed"

― the late great, Friday, 4 September 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link

http://www.reggaeville.com/nc/artist-details/artist/i-kong/news/interview-with-i-kong/ac/news/update/1.html

So he had this girlfriend and apparently Lloyd took the girlfriend away! (laughs) So he went and told Toots “Toots you have to go sing a song about him and you have to go call him the Monkey Man” and Toots said “No way am I going to call this big man that. Me a young man and we still have that respect!” He said “A me pay you! You do what we tell you!”

I like how this story changes subtly from teller to teller.

― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 5 September 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link

four years pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 1 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link

Some venerable old polls being called in for milking tomorrow.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 2 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link

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