"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could...

[bridgit]

"...produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." - Robert Wilensky

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. But they could write Bush's speeches.

[Mutley]

2. My criticism instructor said that.

Well, not the part about the internet, but the rest of it. I get the idea sometimes that he's not fond of Shakespeare. :P

[bridgit]

5. Shakespeare may be considered an acquired taste...

[NewJeffCT]

3. I had always thought it was an infinite # of monkeys?

at an infinite # of keyboards?

[bridgit]

4. i heard it was just a room full of monkeys, sheesh talk about inflation...

x(

[Deja Q]

6. Exactly.

In a room full of monkeys, the monkeys are far more likely to do, ahem, other things than to sit at typewriters hitting on a bunch of keys. Which reminds me, back to the 'ahem', they are more likely to go about hitting on each other...

[bridgit]

7. thanks HT, and you prolly know that the early dog races had monkeys...

riding them round but they had to disband the practice for just that reason = when the dogs got into tight corners...the monkeys would start up punching each other messing up the 'dog run', and pissing off the bookies, and nobody wants to piss off a bookie for too very long

dad gum it all baghdad gita & it's insatiable monkey wars x(

[In_The_Wind]

8. If we could decipher Monkeyspeak we might find that they already have!