Timeline for "Score monkeys fighting over a premise with fondue forks"
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| May 14, 2020 at 8:27 | answer | added | ElGrego | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 2:58 | vote | accept | Eddie Kal | ||
| Oct 24, 2019 at 20:18 | comment | added | Sydney | Theoretically, I can think of 'store monkeys' and 'straw monkeys', but those don't immediately make any more sense than 'score monkeys'. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 20:07 | comment | added | Sydney | I'm not convinced that he's saying 'score', but I can't think of any other word that fits. Searching for "score monkey"/"score monkeys" showed nothing relevant, so it's not a common phrase. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | Weather Vane | I don't think it is "a joke" but "playing for laughs" and is the guest's third take on eight male comedians at dinner. The show is very American, contains topical references, and as a Briton I can't follow some of the banter. Perhaps one point about a fondue fork is that it is long, to keep a distance from the hot pot or flames. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 17:36 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 16:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 24, 2019 at 16:02 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...my best guess (a third possibility you hadn't even counted upon! :) is in this specific context, score monkeys are guests on chat-shows who are preoccupied with (aggressively) scoring debating points (gaining audience approval, "winning" a verbal exchange), rather than participating in a discussion. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The exact meaning would be opaque to even most native speakers, since the collocationscore monkey has no significant currency. So I don't really think there's anything here worth learning, whether you already know "normal" English or not. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:34 | history | edited | user85640 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | @PeterShor Thanks! Corrected. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:31 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:21 | comment | added | Peter Shor | You left out an essential word: eight male comedians. I think the appropriate meaning of score is, from Lexico "informal: Succeed in attracting a sexual partner for a casual encounter." So score monkeys are people who brag about their sexual exploits. Why premises and fondue forks? Incongruity is funny. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:13 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:06 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:03 | comment | added | James K | Interestingly, while he says something that sounds like "score monkeys", the word "score" isn't in the subtitles or transcript. "Monkey" (as in code monkey) can mean a junior who isn't involved in the design of something. So perhaps a "score monkey" could mean a person who arranges musical scores, but is not involved in the conceptual composition, but just does the mechanical orchestration etc. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 14:48 | history | asked | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |