May 19, 2003

The California madhouse.

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May 13, 2003

Setup: "Lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth wanted to test the claim that an infinite number of monkeys given typewriters would create the works of The Bard. A single computer was placed in a monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo to monitor the literary output of six primates."

Punchline1: "But after a month, the Sulawesi crested macaques had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a lavatory, and mostly typing the letter "s".

Punchline2: "The project .. received £2,000 from the Arts Council." (The BBC via Hit & Run)

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