Smoking Ape Reality Break

As the news of Andy Whitfield's sad death from lymphoma settles over me there's only one thing  that could cheer me up even a little bit (next to Ryan Reynolds being beaten to death with baby Hitler).  And that's a smoking ape!  At the Malaysian zoo in Johor Bahru an orangutang named Shirley has been known to enjoy smoking a cigarette or two in her enclosure.

 Up yours, I'm on my break

First of all I love the ideas of apes smoking cigarettes, but apparently I'm the only one since her handlers want her to quit for her health.  Ah yes, smoking bad, imprisoned in a tiny habitat good.  So far they say that she's handling the lack of smoking well with limited mood swings or acts of rage.  "Yay, less of a habit that I enjoy PLUS a longer life in which to experience my Malaysian prison!  Sure makes me glad I grabbed the banana under that net." she was probably overheard saying.