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a story close to my heart from News Of The Weird:

Plymouth (England) University, with a small Arts Council grant, did not test whether an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters could produce the works of Shakespeare, but did test what six Sulawesi crested macaque monkeys would do on a computer over a four-week period at Paignton Zoo in Devon. The Guardian newspaper reported in May that the monkeys produced about five pages of text between them, mostly consisting of the letter S. Said Professor Geoff Cox, they actually spent a lot of the time sitting on the keyboard. [The Guardian, 5-9-03]

The big question is, when they were finished with these macaques did they fill their skulls with concrete and screw them to the monitors, like a certain sick bastard?

Posted by Kim Crawford at May 28, 2003 10:18 PM