The Associated Press article was datelined London and picked up by the N.Y. Times. It described a group of researchers in England trying to prove or debunk the theory that given an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters, they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. So they placed a computer in the monkey enclosure at an English Zoo home to six "macaques - and waited. Eventually, the monkeys produced only five pages of text, primarily filled with the letter S and then a few A's, J's, L's and M's were struck. A researcher was quoted "Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard. unquote.
So, they had a lot of S's - and a lot of Pee - at the end a few A's and M's - that spells SPAM. Thank goodness the send key jammed. Someone should have told them that the key in the upper right spelled "delete" - not excrete! Anyway, it appears Shakespeare is safe for a while. Oh, and the project was paid for by the Arts Council further giving the Arts a bad name.
tjs
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