@ Liv: I like the "new design" of your desktop very much.

And now to Star Trek. I have to confess that I am a little Trekkie/Trekker myself and that's the main reason why I did the next:

PART ONE

Trekkish scientists have the new theory, that planet Monk and planet Vulcan are neighbor planets.



But these opinions differ, because the inhabitants of both planets do certainly have a lot in common but also the biggest differences in their behavior.

At first, we will have a look at the most serious differences:

Vulcans hide their emotions (they would never ever get a nervous breakdown) and they assume this also at other people:




By contrast Monkians show every tiny nuance of an emotion:


In the subway:
Woman (to Monk): Mister, mister, are you okay?
Sharona: Oh, he--he--he's fine.
Woman: He's crying. .
Sharona: We couldn't find a cab.

Vulcans appear not to be frightened at all--at least they claim not to be frightened at all.

By contrast Monkians are frightened by almost everything. Even by milk:


And Vulcans would probably never ever--not even in the slightest dimension-- develop the tiniest touch of a neurosis (except their peculiar characteristic of being accurate to the dot over the i, of course)

Vulcans can stun somebody with a movement of their hand--unfortunately Monkians can't do so (altough it would be very practical sometimes)

And now to the things they have in common--or at least their similarities.

Vulcans sometimes do strange gestures with their hands:


Monkians every now and then do the same:


Monkians remember really everything and they see every tiny detail. And they are never wrong (at least they claim to do so).
Stottlemeyer (about Monk): He, uh, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the strangest, most arcane things.

Monk: …unless I’m wrong, which, you know, I’m not…

Vulcans are always compared with computers, because they remember really everything. They are meticulous to the last decimal place and they are never wrong (at least they claim to do so.)

Monkians don't want that their food touches and they probably don't like it, to eat with their fingers. But one thing is 100 % sure (or are it only 96 %?), they don't like it, when people touch food sitting in the same bowl.


Sharona is eating a hot-dog, some other people are eating too:
Monk (right beside her): I am so hungry.
Sharona: Well, get a hot dog.
Monk: No. No, thanks. No.

(Julie helps herself to some chocolate from a bowl and
Mrs. Gilstrap offers Monk to help himself also.)
Monk: Uh. No thanks, I'm allergic.
Mrs. Gilstrap: To chocolate?
Monk: No, ma'am, uh, I'm allergic to food that's been sitting in a bowl all night and other people have been touching.

They also don't eat nachos from a bowl with other people.

Even Vulcans don't touch their food:


Monkians don't like it, to shake others people hands to greet them, but they do it, because it is polite. But afterwards it is indispensable to clean their hands very carefully with wet-wipes.



They also don't like it, to be touched on other parts of their body, although they allow it some people to do it sometimes (but only grudgingly)



Even Vulcans prefer it, not to be touched. To avoid this annoying hand-shaking ritual (because of the suppression of their emotions they don't really matter very much about politeness) they ostentatiously fold their hands behind their backs.



Monkians messure with a ruler, if their hair is really cut in the right length:


Vulcans are only going to a hairdresser/barber with a level or much better with a levelcheckinglevel for the level:


It doesn't harm either the Monkians or the Vulcans very much, if they get insulted--they sometimes even thank the people who insulted them:
The Monkians accept insults, because they know themselves that they are "different“:
Stottlemeyer: Look. I don't mind living in your shadow, Monk. You're a
freak of nature.
Monk: Thank you.

Monk: But--But for the purposes of this recreation, let's just call it what they call it
on planet Earth.
Sharona: Like you would know.

The Vulcans don't care about an insult, because they pretend that nobody can insult them.






It is claimed, that Vulcans don't (can't) lie--some Monkians claim the same about themselves:
Monk: Wait a minute. What? (She walks away.) Wait, Natalie. Wait, wait, here's the thing. I can't lie. I'm not good at it.

Sometimes it seems that Monkians can read the minds of other people (especially of suspects):
Monk (listening to a speech of Daniel Thorn, where he is mentioning his wife):
He didn’t love her.
Natalie: How do you know?
Monk (shrugs his shoulders): I know.

Vulcans can read the minds of other people or to be more exactly they are mind-“melding“ (but they have to "touch“ to do so)

Monkians don't like it, when they have to undress (especially in front of public) and it doesn't matter, if it is only a part of their clothing:



Sharona: Why? 'cause he's naked? (Monk nods) You've never seen a naked man before?
Monk: No.
Sharona: Oh, you've seen yourself naked, right?
Monk (hesitates--it looks as if he wants to nod): Just once.

But at an emergency situation or if they are not really themselves, it could happen--



Even the old new Vulcans (quite the contrary to the new old Vulcans--CAUTION HARD (NAKED) FACTS. http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k292/Ari...s/TPolnackt.jpg ) prefer to go "high-necked“.
Only in states of emergency you can see a little bit more of them (that's because somebody has to paint their body permanently with yellow-greenish color and they are not allowed to sweat)


Vulcans prefer loneliness--Monkians on the one hand because they are forced to do so on the other hand because they don't like crowds of people.

PART TWO

And now lets go on, because there are more discoveries about Monkians and Vulcans--differences as well as similarities:

Vulcans actually never mourn--Monkians mourn forever and a day!

Vulcans have always to argue with doctors--Monkians with nurses (although they all like each other in reality)

Monkians keep themselves and all other things meticulously clean, and you can “hardly” see any Vulcans with dirty marks and untidy accommodations.

Vulcans are always copeing with everything.
Monkians are never copeing with anything.

@ Liv: Your wish is my command--Sherlock Monk, Adrian Holmes has bubbles now.

Great work! Unfortunately, the only ones I can see are the Sherlock Monk one and the desktop shot of Monk washing the car. The links appear to be dead, and the ones you posted in the thread just aren't there.

Hi. Well, at first I thought this was a temporary server problem, and that we just needed to check back a little later.

But now I see that if you right-click a red X, get the URL and paste it into the browser window, you can view the picture again. (This would have to be done for each image by the author in edit mode, or by posters in quote mode. There is an easier way that sometimes works to "reset" images: the author simply clicks edit, and saves again.)

This kind of thing (problem and resolution) has happened to me before. It might have to do with linking from an unstable site or server, or with a large number of images on the page--I really don't know.

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What a great pity that the links don't work. I decided to post links only (I'll change it at once). Especially at "Tony Travolta" it is a great pity, because the pictures are funnier in combination with the animated gifs. I let the gifs there. Please imagine that they belong to the pictures.

@ GlassBell: Perhaps it was this mean shark again, you know .

And here is something new:
A lot to do (in France):


Monk tidys up Stonehenge/UK:


How would Stotty look like with other beards?


But that's the way we like him best:

Sorry, the links still don't work. Maybe the Admin (Hi, BTW )could find a solution.

At the moment please use a kind of GlassBell's solution: Now, that there are direct links and no images in the postings, you only have to copy the whole links (each one) into your browser-window.

I know, this is very much work, but I have no idea how to do it better. A very very big SORRY!

I found a new webspace for you (thanks to GlassBell) and hope the images work now.

Monkish greetings Ariana

I think you are very talented.

Ariana, I love all of them! You're really good at this! My favorite, though, has to be the Monk/Vulcan comparison. I almost fell off my chair laughing

Thank you very much!

I like it when you like my little graphics.

And here is something new for you:
We all know very well, that it is a catastrophy to "try" to play any board games with Monk. Imagine how easy it also would be for him to play "Memory" or "Mastermind" (if he is the guesser, of course. If he is the one who puts in the sticks it could be very easy for the guesser, because he would always use one color only -- or it would take him forever and a day to put them in only.)

Tony on the other hand loves it to play board games. And one of his favorites is "Monopoly". So many shows/movies like "Star Trek" or "Star Wars", for example do excist as Monopoly-games already, but what if there would be (especially for us) a

)

It was the idea of one of my sons that instead of money you should get (wet)wipes at MONKOPOLY and some of the squares could look like that:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k292/Ari...MonkopolyE1.jpg
Of course the "garbage dump" is the cheapest square and the "Pine street" is the most expensive.

Or this:


In German we have a board game called "Mensch, ärgere dich nicht“ (Do not get angry, man.) It is like
"Sorry“ or "Frustration“:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_%C3%A4rgere_dich_nicht
Here is what I made out of it: „Do not get angry, Monk“:
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k292/Ari...redichnicht.jpg

Or better:
"Do not get angry, Stotty“:
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k292/Ari...redichnicht.jpg

We have also a game called "Fuchs und Henne“ (Fox and hen), where two foxes chase hens and they have to get safe in their stable, but they also could fence in the foxes
Here's this game with Monk and Stotty as Foxes and all (or some of) the killers they brought into prison as hens:
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k292/Ari...FuchsuHenne.jpg

Please, read Stotty's "bubble" first:
--should represent undiscovered territories)

At the "Boston Tea Party":
) :
http://www.babinets.com/authors/peter_rigling_4.html

To be continued......

And now let's go on. (Please, if you find any faults in my translation, you can write me a PM and I'll correct it.)

Let's start with Adrian and Trudy as Hippies:





Napoleon Bonaparte:



Brothers Grimm:


Explanation: In German we say "komischer Vogel" for "funny guy" I had to use "gay bird" in English instead to keep the joke.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:


Vincent van Gogh:



Diogenes:


Wilhelm Tell:




And now something different:
I introduced you already to Benjamin Bluemchen:
http://www.hoppsala.de/index.php?menueID=2...;contentID=1397
and we had Stotty's nightmare already.
And now let's have a look what Sharona saw in her dream after her drinking competition in "Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico":




I apologize to Reinhold Messner for (mis)using his picture.

to be continued sometime......

Stottlemeyer: Randy, once (when) I was under anesthesia I thought my mustache-

-was a chipmunk.

Monk likes everything symmetrical-even faces:

Now let's see, what nightmares torture Monk:

And now let's go on with more monkish nightmares

Worse:

Ariana, I loved the last picture with the Capt. and that moustache! That me LOL!!!

Thank you very much, cujo

BTW Do you know Mr. Honk? This little film is only in German, but I think you might also find it interesting:
http://www.hadrian-honk.de.vu/ --please click on the white "play" in the middle
or
http://www.honk.kilu.de/

What funny pictures Ariana ....that's given me my laugh for the day!!! I would love to be able to do things like what you've done but i'm just not the artistic type . Well done i think the pictures are great!! : . "monkette"