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From: ke... Kevin Johnson
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:00

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Bongo the Chimp (ook...@fbc.org) wrote:
: Kevin D. Quitt <Ke...@Quitt.net> wrote:
:  > On 18 Sep 1997 15:37:56 GMT, tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington)
: wrote:
:  > 
:  > >Jacob Love (jl...@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
:  > >...given a long
:  > >: enough time, a monkey would produce the works of Shakespeare by
: banging
:  > >: on a typewriter.
:  > >
:  > >Thanks to Usenet, we know that this oft-repeated idea is simply
:  > >not true.
:  > 
:  > Really?  And where on Usenet has that been disproven?

: It's true.  I tried it.  Every time I tried, I'd misspell something and
: have to start over.  And the spelling flames!

"Here, Homer, are a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters.
Eventually, they will type a great novel. (Grabs a sheet fresh off one
of the typewriters) (Reading) It was the best of times... It was the
BLURST OF TIMES! Stupid Monkey! (Bangs monkey on head)"
        -- Monty Burns

:-) 

--
Kevin Johnson				University of Texas
Systems Analyst				Institute for Geophysics

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From: ke...@mercury.ig.utexas.edu (Kevin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Bible codes
Date: 1997/09/26
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