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Kevin D. Quitt 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?
> 

You can find the works of Shakespeare online. There is no evidence
one way or the other to indicate that they were keyed in by monkeys.

(This, of course, is subject to your interpretation of the Theory
 of Evolution, which would lend strong support to the idea that
 the works of Shakespeare were not only put online by monkeys, but
 were also written by one.)

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