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About Me

Welcome to the official profile and blog of Clydex the platypus. Clydex rose to fame as the level-headed platypus at www.fredthemonkey.com when he was brought on my Space Chicken to help keep the site moving along when it became apparent that the others in the house werenâ€™t all that interested in helping out.
As a platypus (and heâ€™ll be the first to tell you that that is indeed what he is), he is naturally a rather solitary and shy kind of dude. It is for this reason that heâ€™s enlisted the help of www.fredthemonkey.com music director BDDB to keep this page active. Clydex enjoys hearing from everybody on MySpace but his instinctive solitary nature has kept him from developing the communication skills needed to respond to everybody directly.
Clydex was born in Saskatchewan, Canada of Australian born parents that moved before he was born. Their hopes of providing their future children with a fun, educational environment to grow up in was well-intended, however quickly squashed upon arrival in Saskatchewan. After following the highway for 2.5 days, they eventually ran across civilization and settled down on a nice river bank to make their new home.
Clydex became interested in computer work after trying for several years to find anything at all to do in Saskatchewan. He doesn't speak much of his childhood, but we know that he came to the US in 2002 seeking employment and terrain that wasn't as flat as a tabletop. After a good bit of nomadic wandering, he met Space Chicken in the cereal section of a grocery store when the two of them reached for the last box of Chocoloopies. After some discussions as to who should get it (Clydex wanted to arm wrestle for it but, well, that just would not have been very fair) they decided to go to the fredthemonkey.com house to split the box. It was there (while trying to keep the box away from SCEB) that SC learned that Clydex could be of some help with updating the website. The restâ€¦is history...
Animal Oddities
Weird Al Shares Your Taste in Music
See his whole playlist here (iTunes required)
Which Musician (or Group) Shares Your Taste in Music?
You Are 28% Evil
A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well.
In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. How Evil Are You?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

friends of www.fredthemonkey.com and supporters of all things platypudlianthose unfamiliar with Clydex's work at www.fredthemonkey.com (have I posted that address enough yet?) may stop by www.fredthemonkey.com and seek out some of the cartoons and mailbags where our favorite purple platypus makes an appearance.

www.fredthemonkey.com

You scored as Bass. You are the String Bassist. You are the rhythmic thump behind the string orchestra, much like the drummer in the band, and despite what some violinists may say, you are the most necessary to an orchestra of all the instruments. You keep those scatterbrained violinists, violists, and cellists in time. Bassists are great because they are able to groove in jazz and rock music as well as classical, and string bassists make excellent bass guitarists in rock and roll bands.

Bass

94%

Viola

75%

Cello

44%

Violin

13%
Which stringed instrument are you?
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You scored as Bass Guitar Player. You should be a Bass guitar player...get some lessons if you dont know how to play!! : )

Bass Guitar Player

80%

Acoustic Guitar Player

65%

Singer

55%

electric Guitar Player

45%

Drummer

20%
What instrument should you play in a band?
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My Blog

Clydex’s New Year’s Resolutions

I'm sure that while watching the gang at www.FredtheMonkey.com in action, one of the first things to cross your mind is "I'll bet this disciplined group of go-getters set the bar high every New Year's...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:44:00 GMT

Clydex is BACK!

Did anyone even notice he was gone?In the month and a half or so since we last posted on here, much excitement has been going on in Clydex's world. He has been actually been busy filming his ver...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Happy Belated Thanksgiving, Hosers

To our Canadian friends...happy belated thanksgiving. Clydex celebrated by building a 18 pound turkey out of peanut butter cups and eating the entire thing himself. He figured that since n...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:40:00 GMT

Show us your eggplant!

If you've seen the 5th anniversary FTM cartoon, you know that they created an eggplant likeness of Clydex.I won't go near an eggplant, but you're the sort that is somehow okay with them, I encourage y...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:34:00 GMT

Happy 5th Anniversary, FTM.com!!!!

Today is 5 years since the official launch of www.Fredthemonkey.com Congrats to JKR for keeping it alive this long, and here's to another 5 years. To celebrate, everybody reading this is strongl...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Voice Over Guy Dead at 68

Do LaFontaine, the most famous unknown actor in Hollywood died yesterday. I will no longer be able to mimic his spots on most commercials on network TV and the movie trailers will never be the s...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:14:00 GMT

Clydex’s Olympic conclusion

After an exhausted Clydex found his way back to the Olympic Village and collapsed into his bed, his alarm clock began to ring. Great. He'd been back for all of about 9 seconds-this was sur...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:23:00 GMT

Where has Clydex been the last few weeks?

You may have noticed a lag in any sort of blog updates here. It isn't because I'm too lazy or lacking in the idea department-no, there is a better reason. Clydex has been quite busy. ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:08:00 GMT

what a night

My recent project has been to patch the perimeter of my basement wall where the floor meets the wall with waterproofing cement and then slather the walls with waterproofing paint. This isn't due...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:43:00 GMT

Clydex is a Mobster

So I gave in. I was sent a Mobster request and accepted and now I need to build up my mob. If anyone is involved in this rather unremarkable game (yet I still log in and do missions anyway...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:22:00 GMT