A fork of Rural Dictionary
The first time I ever heard this saying was on a construction site where I continued to hear it quite regularly. Basically it means fucking something up. Trying to do something that may require a little bit of skill,experience or coordination and fumbling around with it and not getting it right. Picture a monkey all excited trying to get a hold of a football so he could hump it.
When my wife was trying to change her wiper blades she looked like a monkey fucking a football.
Used to describe a group of people trying to complete a seemingly mindless task and fucking it all up.
Watching the roughnecks make up BHA was like watching a monkey fucking a football.
A helluva lot of action with very little or no result
Applying for fall classes, I had to register with the burser, the advisor, check my prereq.s, and then stand in line, and then I found the class I wanted was closed out. "Man scheduling for classes this morning was like a monkey fucking a football"
generally, a disorganized set of events. See cluster fuck.
Bill - Did you go to the concert last night? John - Yeah, dude it was like a monkey fucking a football, the organizers better get their shit together next time.
When someone is marching out of step (bouncing)
Sgt. Amos: Herte, get your ass in step. You're bouncing like a monkey fucking a football !!
When a pair of people are having extreme difficulty performing a task. Usually due to the complexity or physical effort of the task involved. Or the inability to get their efforts coordinated enough to complete the task.
Did you see those two trying to get that riding lawnmower off of that pickup truck? They looked like two monkeys fucking a football.