Monkeys, monkeys everywhere...

[Easy E]

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. "
- Robert Wilensky

[MJS]

To Type, or Not to Type? That is the question. But at least we know what they did with all the Typewritters now that computers are here. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

[Ray Zee]

its scientifically impossible for it to happen. as we know monkey see, monkey do. so whatever the jibberish the first monkey does, they all do.
plus we do not understand their language. so even if they get it right we arent smart enough to figure it out.

[John Feeney]

I think it was Bob Newhart who said they did conduct that experiement. After many months one of the scientists finally called another one over saying, "Look, I think we've got something!" They read what one of the monkey had typed: "To be, or not to be: that is the gnfgrftp"

[Ray Zee]

gnfgrftftp,,,, yes yes that is the monkey word for question. what came next. was it sadkerivv men do ovserrfc afteroshjtem

[John Feeney]

I think you've got it. Soon we will have monkey language deciphered. Maybe BillM, with his Scottish tokin' froom tha schemes wood be knowin' hoe to werk it oot even moor!

[Cyrus]

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

- Robert Wilensky

Well, as a random example why this is true, I give you . . .

. . . The Entire Works Of Shakespeare (http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/)

[Porcupine]

Not about typing, but still pretty funny. Be warned: Some think this is funny as heck, some think it is stupid, "The Monkey Memo":

I like monkeys. The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.

I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda= like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.

I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them, Unfortunately, there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer, so it didn't all go bad.

I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to had extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn=t improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.

I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said that the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they liked them, but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.

I like monkeys.

[Porcupine]

Not sure if everyone saw this, but they actually gave a computer to six monkeys for a week.
Six typing monkeys — no Shakespeare (http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/1113nd1.htm)

Some highlights:
"Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in."

"the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it"

"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard"