Who or what are the dancing monkeys?
The dancing monkeys or, if we’re being cultural, les singe qui dansent, are those London.pm members who on any given subject will make a lot of noise, offer suggestions, make proclamations, fling faeces, indignantly post about people who they perceived have slighted them, the list, the IRC channel or Perl in general and, by and large, create more noise than signal. Occasionally amusing but more often annoying no-one is entirely sure why they do this since it is widely known that such posturing is not big, clever or hard. The monkeys who will dance for any given occasion is fairly predictable but we keep them around for the few times that they are actually amusing.