Infinite monkeys!

[xlady_lazarusx]

Those who know the daft urban myth that an infinite number of monkeys randomly typing letters would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare is now being tried practically. (I lost the site, but am hunting- in the meantime look at a good April fool's version from a while ago...) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795

I'm bitterly

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[psypherpunk]

Surely it's an Urban Hypothesis rather than an Urban Myth? In any case, everyone seems to forget that all it took was an advanced monkey to write them in the first place.

A bunch of bananas my colleagues really got into that website around '03/'04. If the random-monkey-website still hasn't cranked out at least "Hung be the heavens" by now they've no hope.

[xlady_lazarusx]

I think they had about four four-string matches last time I looked.
Monkey Hamlet is still a long way off, I'm afraid...