Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare

AP | 5/09/03 | JILL LAWLESS

[Grut]

Does anyone recall the name and author of a science fiction short story in which the experiment was tried and the monkeys immediately began to produce the complete works of Shakespear? I know I read it a good thirty years ago and it may have dated from pre-WW2.

[chb]

'All systems tend toward chaos'
Consequently, if you give the proverbial infinite number of monkeys typewriters, the one guaranteed result is an infinite number of broken typewriters. QED

[polemikos]

Give an infinite number of liberals (perish the thought) an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce a coherent sentence.

[Lost Highway]

[Sacajaweau]

And now we know where the phrase "monkeying around" came from. Except Mom made us clean up our mess....These idiots had to clean up after the monkeys!!!!

[unspun]

Objective and empirical....
The "primates" report.
You decide.

picture at rodserling.com

[gcruse]

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."They pressed a lot of S's..."

Well, of course.  I've never seen a monkey
who could keep it's hands off the other's S.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Monkeys throw their own shit, last time I heard...

[aruanan]

Monkeys throw their own shit, last time I heard...

Yes, the old time zoos were the best. You'd stand out of range in the ape house and watch naive humans walk up and then get pelted.

[Cathryn Crawford]

LOL...sounds like an absolute blast.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.

Well of course they did....they were tired of sharing access.