I just saw this story, although it was announced earlier in the week. There’s a well-known hypothesis that an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. A group of researchers tried to put this theory into too too solid flesh, at the Paignton Zoo in Devon. Unfortunately their resources were limited to the somewhat smaller amount of six monkeys and one computer.At first, said researcher Mike Phillips, “the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it,” imitating a common desire of males when working with a new computer. “Another thing they were interested in,” Phillips continued, “was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard.” Also a frequent wish, certainly, though usually pertaining to someone else‘s computer, and admittedly less acted upon.
The experiment was far from a failure. The six monkeys were still able to come up a Will & Grace script and have already signed an agreement for a new reality TV series on ABC involving a bachelor and 19 female gibbon who vie for his attention (but, you see, whomever he picks will get a hundred tons of bananas, but he doesn’t know that!).
Now that’s what I call “Must-Fling-Poo TV”!’
By the way, the title comes from A Midsummer-Night\’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2
