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.jade monkey about it
Apologies, readers. I may not have been very clear (resulting in you ending up in some side-tracked little webpage of mine, desperately searching the answer for something you don't understand, breathily wishing you could be doing something more exciting, like playing that Doom wad you downloaded, or Pong). But don't worry, for I will tell you all that you want to know, under a series of exhaustively researched sub-headings.
What is this Jade Monkey thing, then?
Ook, touchy. Aw, alright then. Jade Monkey was the name of a sixth form magazine I worked on for a year and a half, eventually rising up the ranks to become editor and actually having to do that responsibility thing we've all heard so much about. It involved writing - and editing, sentence contuinity fans - a series of remotely relevant and seriously unconnected articles in the desperate hope that someone might find them funny. It meant that I got to look at some of the funniest bits of writing I'd ever seen, whilst becoming painfully aware of my own shortcomings. Writing shortcomings, disgusting child at the back.
But why's it called Jade Monkey anyway?
Ah. You see, no-one actually knows. Me and the then-uber-editors sat in a darkened room, trying to think of a semi-decent name for our exciting new baby. After we'd gone through all the silly things (Grout and Grouting, What Tiler), we went through some arty things (Spin, Monolith, Untitled) before emerging back out through the silly things section again. Jade Monkey was chosen because then-Reviews Editor Will had eaten too much cough medicine that day.
Oh, okay. My primal knowledge-lust is sated. For now.
Phew. Back to the main articles page, monkey boy.