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Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
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| 5/09/03
| JILL LAWLESS
Posted on 05/09/2003 6:18:08 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:18:08 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
I'd bet that their typng is still beeter than mime.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:19:13 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
To: kattracks
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSo, no SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSShakeSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSpeare, huh? SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSad.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:20:02 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(WMD-40: Lube your nukes)
To: kattracks
At least the monkeys had the sense not to
plagiarize.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:20:48 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: kattracks
Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.
Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.
Unbelievable. Didn't anyone ever tell these people the monkey and typewriter thing is only a figure of speech?
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:21:05 AM PDT
by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: RandallFlagg
LO: LO9 LOO LOL!
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:22:11 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: kattracks; Vic3O3; cavtrooper21
Someone better ping the evolutionists. Looks like a bunch of monkeys just disproved Darwin.
Semper Fi
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:22:58 AM PDT
by
dd5339
(Lookout Texas, here we come!)
To: kattracks
"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.
It never occurred to them that this would be the most logical event? Why didn't they put the plastic protectors on the keys, first?
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:23:55 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
To: kattracks
Sure - they don't produce Shakespeare, but they did create that other website.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:24:13 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
(Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach Nothosen aus!)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies."
Obviously inspired by a visit to the New York Times Online.
To: kattracks
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess. Or a War on Drugs thread.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:26:23 AM PDT
by
Loyalist
To: kattracks
Give an idiot at a university a federally subsidized grant, and you get the idiot trying to get a barrel of monkeys trying to create Shakespeare on a typewriter.
Elect an idiot to the Congress or Commons, and you get a politician who gives a university idiot a subsidized grant to get a barrel of monkeys to try to create Shakespeare on a typewriter.
Let people vote for officials, and they tend to elect ... [I'll stop my analogies before I get into real trouble...]
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:28:41 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: kattracks
Whoa. "Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typwriters" and "[t]hey were quite interested in the screen"? No wonder the experiment flopped. The monkeys weren't interested in randomly creating literatire, but art.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:28:42 AM PDT
by
dorothy
To: Tennessee_Bob
You beat me to it...LOL
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:31:07 AM PDT
by
just me
To: just me
How many high paid idiots does it take to watch six monkeys make a mess!!!
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:38:31 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: kattracks
Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Hasn't AOL pretty much disproved this theory?
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:39:58 AM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: kattracks
Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
No, they write Dickens....
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times..."
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:40:31 AM PDT
by
mr.pink
To: All
In a hundred years, some "Jackass" will decide that the monkeys were typing in code and decipher it!!! That'll be a million dollar grant!!! What fools we are for supporting idiots.
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posted on
05/09/2003 6:41:47 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: mr.pink
Some of them even write for the media.
To: kattracks
"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies. Was he talking about Salon.com columnists?
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