snakes and peas

[Mark A. Mandel]

Wilson Gray writes:

        >>>
   It may help to clarify the point of the saying to add that "Barrel of
Monkeys" is also a commercially-produced children's game reputed to be
a lot of fun to play.
        <<<

It's the other way around.  The expression "more fun than a barrel of
monkeys" is a lot older than the game.  According to
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/4149, the game is published by Milton
Bradley and dated 1989, and I know the expression from decades before
that.  Clearly the game was named for the expression.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]