The recent mention of chimpanzees recalled the story out of England in 2003 when researchers at Plymouth University left a computer in the monkey enclosure at the local zoo presumably to see if six crested macaques could reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. Then they waited - but the monkeys failed to produce a single word - only five pages of text primarily filled with the letter S - also a few As and Ms were struck. Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard. So they had a lot of S - and a lot of pee and a few As and Ms - and that spells SPAM. Thank goodness the send key jammed. Someone should have told them that key in the upper right reads "delete" - not "excrete". So it appears that Shakespeare is safe for a while.
tjs
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