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1 posted on 05/09/2003 6:18:08 AM PDT by kattracks
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I'd bet that their typng is still beeter than mime.
2 posted on 05/09/2003 6:19:13 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
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SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSo, no SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSShakeSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSpeare, huh? SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSad.
3 posted on 05/09/2003 6:20:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (WMD-40: Lube your nukes)
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At least the monkeys had the sense not to plagiarize.
4 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)
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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?

5 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)
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Someone better ping the evolutionists. Looks like a bunch of monkeys just disproved Darwin.

Semper Fi
7 posted on 05/09/2003 6:22:58 AM PDT by dd5339 (Lookout Texas, here we come!)
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"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?

8 posted on 05/09/2003 6:23:55 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (Lurking since 2000.)
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Sure - they don't produce Shakespeare, but they did create that other website.
9 posted on 05/09/2003 6:24:13 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach Nothosen aus!)
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Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.

Or a War on Drugs thread.

11 posted on 05/09/2003 6:26:23 AM PDT by Loyalist
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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...]
12 posted on 05/09/2003 6:28:41 AM PDT by TomGuy
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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.
13 posted on 05/09/2003 6:28:42 AM PDT by dorothy
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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?

16 posted on 05/09/2003 6:39:58 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare

No, they write Dickens....

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times..."
17 posted on 05/09/2003 6:40:31 AM PDT by mr.pink
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"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?

20 posted on 05/09/2003 6:45:53 AM PDT by RogueIsland
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To be fair, we don't really know how Shakespeare would've responded if he and five other people were locked in a cage with a computer in the sixteenth century.
25 posted on 05/09/2003 7:00:36 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare,/i>

It aint Shakespear but I think a couple wrote Tim Robbins Press Club Speech..

26 posted on 05/09/2003 7:01:44 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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Here's a quote I've used as a tag line before:

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky-

27 posted on 05/09/2003 7:06:02 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: kattracks
Thee is a whole cult of this stuff:

The Parable of the Monkeys
A.k.a. The Topos of the Monkeys and the Typewriters



and, of course:

Singalong Lyrics: Theme from the Monkees

Here we come Walking down the street
We get the funniest looks from Everyone we meet.

Hey, hey we're the Monkeys, and people say we monkey around.
But we're too busy singing, to put anybody down.

We go wherever we want to, Do what we like to do.
We don't have time to get restless, There's always something new.

We're just trying to be friendly, Come watch us sing and play.
We're the young generation, And we got something to say.

Any time or any where...
Just look over your shoulder, guess who'll be standing there.

These lyrics are displayed for private singalong parties and other non-commercial use only. The songs are written by other folks and their copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
28 posted on 05/09/2003 7:06:46 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Even though the monkeys wrote senseless gibberish, the really senseless idiots are the researchers behind this project. If a case for evolution is to be made through this line of research, it is negated by such ill constructed experiments.
29 posted on 05/09/2003 7:12:34 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Defund NPR, PBS and the LSC.)
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What isn't mentioned is that the work was graded...and got a "B"...and then the monkeys started tossing around more feces....so the school raised the grade to an "A" and awarded the alpha male a degree in liberal arts, Summa Cum Laude.
31 posted on 05/09/2003 7:18:30 AM PDT by neutrino (Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
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wait, this isn't about the state department?
34 posted on 05/09/2003 7:25:43 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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