Cheryl Ladd

Dear Cheryl,

I just wanted to butt my nose into your business in order to congratulate you on the good looks. Way to go! When I saw your "North Americow" cow painting I immediately gathered my screeners in order to decide my opinion on it. Well, I'm pleased to say that they have decided that I like your painting by a whopping 64-1 vote. You see Cheryl; I am leaving all of my decision-making responsibilities up to the sixty-five monkeys that I keep in my apartment. Not only was it a landslide victory, but the room was buzzing with interest as soon as I mentioned your name. Foo-Foo, a retired "working girl," credits you with inspiring her to leave the streets and get her life back on track. I'm sure you will be pleased to know that following in your image, she died her hair blonde, married Scooter, the juggling chimpanzee, and gave birth to twins, Shwumpy and Lumpy. Flavor, the multi colored orangutan, claims that all The Angles needed was a signature car, such as the General Lee, and it would have been an international phenomenon (at least among the monkeys who Neilson is starting to recognize as a growing target audience).

The only nay came from Nipples, the three-legged cow posing as a baboon. He just wanted me to include the following statement:

Dear Mrs. Ladd,

I am grossly disturbed by your rendition of the cow in your painting North Americow. Despite the fact that I am a monkey, I still have the right to take offense.

Thank you,

Nipples

The screeners (except Nipples) and I were so enthused by this idea that we also put our heads together and came up with a few ideas. Feel free to use them as "Inspirato" on your next canvas. Oral, the ex-Portuguese ventriloquist monkey, thought of "Cow-Dee-Doodie." That, of course, would be a cow's body with a How-dee-doodie head attached. There was some debate as to who gets the head and who gets the body, but with Nipples protesting and out of the room, it was an easy decision. Jade, the hairless chimpanzee, came up with the ideas "Cow on the Cob" or "Harvest." This would be a corn stalk about five to six feet high, with a cow growing where the corn should be. "Harvest" could be the same idea just with an entire field full of Cow's on the cob.

Anyway, just some thoughts followed by a boisterous round of applause on the good looks.

Yours truly,

Orpheous Roy

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