The Get to Da Choppa! Editorial 

Up until recently your favorite website, Digital Monkey Box, had the honorable distinction of being ranked number one (that’s #1 for you folks in Alabama) on Google for the phrase, “Get to da choppa” for several weeks. It was a blessing and honor to be associated in such a way with one of our favorite movies. Sadly, it did not last forever. We are now ranked fourth after some stupid waste of time page, a band’s website, and an urban dictionary entry.  

We are incensed and outraged by this indecency. Digital Monkey Box is the proper place to learn about and enjoy Get to Da Choppa! in all its forms. Get to Da Choppa! is above from some "funny" page, or a crappy band trying to cash in on its popularity, or some website that has user additions that are a dozen times worse than Wikipedia’s. I’m tired of others trying to steal the glory of Get to Da Choppa! Digital Monkey Box is the place for everything Get to Da Choppa! Period. 

We also have a special message to the Get to Da Choppa band. Just because you form some crappy death metal band and think its funny to call yourself Get to Da Choppa, it is not. It’s not ironic, nor hip, nor cool. Perhaps if you had a song called Get to Da Choppa!, we could get behind that. If your band name was something like The Predators and your song was “Get to Da Choppa!” that would be a different story. It would be cool. But you aren’t The Predators who sing about Getting to Da Choppa! so you’re not cool. Your lead singer also sounds like he’s being raped by a draft horse.  

We know we cannot claim to own Get to Da Choppa! That is not our intention. It cannot belong to anyone. We consider ourselves guardians of the holy light that is Get to Da Choppa! We want to spread Get to Da Choppa! across the land, much like vegan hippies spread stink and anti-KFC propaganda. Get to Da Choppa! is a state of mind. While it is true that none of us can truly know what it is to really Get to Da Choppa! out there, because only by getting to Da Choppa!, can we really know what Getting to Da Choppa! is all about in the first place. But I assure you, once you have gotten to Da Choppa! you have transcended these mortal bounds. It is a place where you can really:

I hope that crude animated .gif can illustrate our points. The choppa is waiting for us out there right now. Can’t you hear its blades whomping in the jungle clearing, ready to lift off and save us from the stalking death of the alien hunter that’s goal is to skin us and polish our skulls to a shiny perfection?

There have been great sacrifices made to Get to Da Choppa! Billy died for us, man. He stood on that log and got pushed off by that evil alien, just so we could Get to Da Choppa! in time. Tell that spirit in the sky we said hello, Billy and that our girlfriend has a really big pussy. That always made you laugh that horribly awful baritone laugh of yours, didn’t it Billy?

Billy’s heroic and macho sacrifice wasn’t in vain. We are almost to Da Choppa, and as we get to it we must remember all those who’ve fallen in hopes of getting to Da Choppa! Mac, Jesse Ventura, Nerdy Guy with Big Glasses, Richard Chavez, we are getting to Da Choppa! for all of you. Maybe someday they can build a memorial to you in Washington that will say, “Their sacrifice was not in vain, for we have all Gone to Da Choppa!”

Please spread the word. GET TO DA CHOPPA!

Thank you,

The Staff at Digital Monkey Box

-Paul - 09/26/06