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valarltdFrom Weekly World News:
The classic puzzle about whether an infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite period of time would type a Shakespeare play has been answered in the affirmative. Researchers at the Raleigh Institute near Manchester, England, announced that the monkeys in their lab produced a perfect version of "Romeo and Juliet."
"We've been holding our breath for weeks," says Alan Ripshaw, the researcher in charge of the Monkey Project. "We knew the monkeys were getting close, but we've had a number of false starts.
"One time they got to the fourth act of Macbeth, before making a mistake. The monkeys also recently typed out a Thomas Pynchon novel, but that doesn't count."
The rest of the story is here
In other news, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ask directions near Paris, 15 people died of boredom watching Gigli, aliens use e-m,ail to seduce earth women (I think I got that e-mail), 14% of all brides used to be men and Mr. Rogers is back from the dead, and terrorizing the Neighborhood.
The classic puzzle about whether an infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite period of time would type a Shakespeare play has been answered in the affirmative. Researchers at the Raleigh Institute near Manchester, England, announced that the monkeys in their lab produced a perfect version of "Romeo and Juliet."
"We've been holding our breath for weeks," says Alan Ripshaw, the researcher in charge of the Monkey Project. "We knew the monkeys were getting close, but we've had a number of false starts.
"One time they got to the fourth act of Macbeth, before making a mistake. The monkeys also recently typed out a Thomas Pynchon novel, but that doesn't count."
The rest of the story is here
In other news, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ask directions near Paris, 15 people died of boredom watching Gigli, aliens use e-m,ail to seduce earth women (I think I got that e-mail), 14% of all brides used to be men and Mr. Rogers is back from the dead, and terrorizing the Neighborhood.
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Date: 2005-01-28 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-28 01:29 am (UTC)And if you're having
no inspirationa slow news day, you can always bring up aliens, Batboy or a new Bible prophecy.But someone in the fact checking department was asleep at the switch recently. "Two-headed bigfoot shot in Iowa." Any half-bright cryptozoologist knows that the range of Gigantapithus Megapodus is no further east than the Rockies. You get into the Dakotas, and farther east? There's no forest.
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Date: 2005-01-28 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-28 01:26 am (UTC)It was also a big hit in Peculiar Missouri. (no, I am not making that up. My old high school did it last fall)
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Date: 2005-01-28 02:39 am (UTC)UTEP did the batboy musical, too. Kid gets around. :) KC