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originalpckelly

(24,382 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 04:52 PM Apr 2012

You know how if you put enough monkeys on typewriters they'll write Shakespeare?

You know by chance.

Imagine that those monkeys live in their mothers basement, and they're sitting in front of computers.

Then, imagine all the monkeys that would fling poo at the computer and it would accidentally hit a key and post a message, you know instead of making Shakespeare.

That's FR.

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lob1

(3,820 posts)
1. An infinite number of monkeys could come up with Shakespeare.
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 04:58 PM
Apr 2012

I think 1 or 2 could write all freeper crap.

mojitojoe

(94 posts)
3. I thought that's where "Fed Up" and "Going Rogue" came from.
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 05:07 PM
Apr 2012

Surely neither Palin or Perry were capable of stringing that many words together without the help of something smarter than they?

 

Yavapai

(825 posts)
8. Give them computers with internet access,
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 05:34 PM
Apr 2012

and they will write x-rated versions. But after the couple times I went and looked at FR, all I saw was
the monkey poo.

Flagrante

(138 posts)
9. How many monkeys would it take to produce the Ryan budget?
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 08:14 PM
Apr 2012

The same number as their are Republican house members!

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