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To: Elsie

And oh, BTW, given the gist of this thread, the right hand side of the bottom picture probably ought to be 10,000 monkeys typing to see if they can recreate a Free Republic crevo thread.

Cheers!

973 posted on 12/30/2005 10:39:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

The classic puzzle about whether an infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite period of time would type a Shakespeare play has been answered in the affirmative. Researchers at the Raleigh Institute near Manchester, England, announced that the monkeys in their lab produced a perfect version of "Romeo and Juliet."

"We've been holding our breath for weeks," says Alan Ripshaw, the researcher in charge of the Monkey Project. "We knew the monkeys were getting close, but we've had a number of false starts.

"One time they got to the fourth act of Macbeth, before making a mistake. The monkeys also recently typed out a Norman Mailer novel, but that doesn't count."

Ripshaw says he began the project because he was intrigued with the controversy over whether Shakespeare really was the author of the plays bearing his name.

"Some scholars think Bacon was the real author," Ripshaw says. "That's when I had the thought, 'What if they were written by monkeys?'

Ripshaw assembled 5,000 monkeys and an equal number of typewriters. The monkeys were rewarded with bananas every time they filled up a page with letters.

"Ninety-nine percent of it was nonsense," Ripshaw says. "But one of the monkeys put up a blog on the Internet, and it has a big following."

But a researcher checking says the monkeys made a mistake. "In one reference, they typed 'Romeo,' 'Romero.'"

Says Ripshaw, "I guess it's back to the drawing board."

-- JAKE ANDERSON of the Weekly World News

1,009 posted on 12/31/2005 1:21:56 AM PST by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: grey_whiskers
...the bottom picture probably ought to be 10,000 monkeys typing to see if they can recreate a Free Republic crevo thread.

No need for probabilities; what's the Latin???

Ergo sum incognito?

1,039 posted on 12/31/2005 5:46:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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