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- From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Brain Damage... the theory
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.100007.9011@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:00:07 -0400
- References: <1992Nov16.081039.8920@ac.dal.ca> <1992Nov16.163036.16880@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov17.120034.8944@ac.dal.ca> <1992Nov17.194047.4386@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In article <1992Nov17.194047.4386@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.120034.8944@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >>With this in mind, here are The Top Ten Things Ted Could Want:
- >
- > *plonk*
-
- My thought exactly.
-
- You know, Ted, you really bore me and so this will be my last post on this
- thread in all probability. However, I think I finally figured out your game.
-
- Ladies and gentlemen of alt.peeves, I have a theory.
-
- Deep in the bowels of the Psychology building of the University of Chicago,
- an experiment is taking place. You've probably all heard that quote about
- how if you put one hundred monkeys in a room with one hundred typewriters,
- they would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Well, a
- reseacher the the U of C decided to try this little notion out.
-
- Now, one hundred monkeys are hard to find, and the researcher had to make do
- with some of the hand me down animals from other labs.
-
- My thought is that the researcher's name is Ted Frank, and he locked those
- monkies in a room with 100 word processors (typewriters being passe). However,
- one word processor wasn't a word processor, but a terminal Mr. (or maybe Dr.)
- Frank had logged into and forgotten to log back out from. The terminal was
- not only connected, it was connected to NEWS.
-
- One of the monkies, the one who had been used in an experiment concerning
- the effects of heavy lesioning of the brain in language, got hold of the USENET
- terminal, and has been pecking away at it ever since. Every now and then he
- hits the right key sequence and messages are posted. Since this poor
- monkey is suffering from heavy and extensive brain damage, it has a rather
- limited volcablary, this would explain the repetition of certain words
- and phrases in its posts:
-
- Mikey
- frat/fraternity
- drunk
- pool of vomit
- Law school
-
- See what I mean? Maybe some kind sould could call the University of Chicago
- and alert them to the fact that one of their experimental animals has
- INTERNET access.
-
-
- And while you're at it, put that poor animal out of its misery. It is cruel
- to make it live such an unhappy and obviously unfulfilled life.
-
- Mike "well, it fits the facts..."
-