don't forget his love for gorillas pic'd is one of his gorillas and younger women...
Heh, yes! Good call. I'd forgotten all about Mickey the gorilla. Ell Darden tells a story about him but, since it pales in comparison to something the ever-great Juruth might spin about his adventures with Branch Warren and aliens, I'm not sure it's even worth sharing
Okay, okay: apparently, Jones let Mickey loose when a bunch of guys, including some Tampa Buccs linemen, were training at "Nautilus HQ" (read: a big quonset hut on Jones' rather expansive property). Mickey got mad and started beating on a concrete wall, which allegedly made the wall violently shake, even stirring up dust from the foundations IIRC. According to Ell's account, the Buccs players ran out of the place as fast as they could, ready to piss their pants.
That's not incredibly hard to believe given what Jones had Ray Mentzer do to that tennis dyke ... Martina Navartavlova? (I can't be bothered to Google that gremlin's actual name.) For whatever reason, Jones didn't like her, so he had Ray pick her up from the airport in a little cheap car with no A/C. Then, as soon as they got to Art's property in Ocala, Ray lead her straight to the alligator pit. She's said to have flipped and wanted to go back to the airport immediately.
I wish Onlyme was still around to corroborate or improve on that story's details
Surely, at some point in Ray's training lectures and such, he would've spoken candidly about his adventures whilst working for Arthur Jones.