The original Trash Monkey and all of his current (and future) siblings were the brain children of college friends and roommates Andrew Zarbo and Scott Fairley while in their senior year at the University of New Hampshire.

With a mutual love of all things monkeys, and the notion that everybody, everywhere, believed monkeys to be as comical as they did, the idea to create a line of t-shirts using a universally silly monkey to appeal to a person's likes, interests, and/or hobbies came to them in a flash of brilliance.

Scott:  "You know man, monkeys are just too darned funny..."
Zarbo:  "I know, right?  I mean, who doesn't love them?  Everyone secretly (or not-so-secretly) wishes they had a pet monkey."
Scott:  "For real!  We should give people a shirt with a funny monkey on it.  We should probably put it in a trash can. That would make people happy..."
Zarbo:  "I agree.  There's no way anybody could be in a bad mood with a silly monkey strapped to their chest all day.  It must be done..."

...and so the shirts were born.

As the phenomenon continues to grow, more monkeys will surely join the mix, to the pleasure of dozens. You know that old saying about "multiplying like bunnies"? Well, they were wrong; it's the monkeys that are out of control!

They dubbed him "Nigel Q. Monkington"...