Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 01, 2014

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    margueritem  over 10 years ago

    And busted quite well, I’d say.

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    AlnicoV   over 10 years ago

    You’d think that monkeys would be smarter than that.

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    aardvarkseyes  over 10 years ago

    exoticdoc2: If the monkeys had an infinite amount of time, just by randomly typing, they would hit every letter combination possible. One of those combinations would contain all of the works of Shakespeare. It’s not that they would know that they had written Shakespeare; it’s just a logical outcome of a random process.

    By the way, I wrote an article on this subject for my Alternate Reality News Service a few years back. The Million Monkey Experiment resulted in most of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, which confused the researchers no end!

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    x_Tech  over 10 years ago

    Well, now we know where all those scripts for reality TV show come from.

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 10 years ago

    It doesn’t take an infinite number of monkeys. Only the number included in Shakespeare’s pre-human ancestors.

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    Max Starman Jones  over 10 years ago

    I think that the advent of the internet and social media has disproved this old adage.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Maybe you’ve busted another myth; that monkeys will fling fecal matter…. maybe it’s TV scripts they fling…. same thing in most cases.

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    GoodQuestion Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Notice:There were no monkeys or spleens hurt in todays episode of BR . . . . ☻

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    Kali39  over 10 years ago

    You didn’t give them enough time, Dr. Mel.Oh, wait, they just wrote a Pauly Shore movie script.

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    klunker rider  over 10 years ago

    Well even having been written by 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters, that script will still be 100 times better than “Grown Ups 2”

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    Petemejia77  over 10 years ago

    …and 4,and 5 ….oh god!!

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    Alabama Al  over 10 years ago

    A quotation attributed 26 to a 1996 speech by Robert Wilensky stated, “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 that is not true.”`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 10 years ago

    Isn’t it traditionally a million monkeys?

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    pcolli  over 10 years ago

    They might not produce the complete works of Shakespeare, but they might well disprove Einstein’s theories.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 10 years ago

    There is a great bit where Bob Newhart plays a person who checks the monkeys’ writing . (I’m dating myself)

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    westny77  over 10 years ago

    If you say so

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 10 years ago

    “We will all die” isn’t a prediction, and even so, something could conceivably change the fact.“baring any other major changes” leaves a lot of wiggle room for predictions. “I will be audited by the IRS this year”, fact or prediction?

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    drsutherland  over 10 years ago

    Yes, but the monkeys would also have to throw the carriage return, roll paper into the platen, and replace the ribbons. We’re not talking computer keyboards here.

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