From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!wolit
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Monkey business
Article-I.D.: rabbit.645
Posted: Thu Jul 29 11:20:02 1982
Received: Fri Jul 30 03:59:48 1982

Hey, you know that old saw from probability class that if you put
enough monkeys in front of typewriters for long enough, eventually
they'd write the complete works of Shakespeare?  Well, a few years ago,
some people here at Bell Labs actually tried it.  They locked ten
chimps in a room with ten typewriters (and enough food for a long,
long time), and sat back to see what would happen.  They haven't
gotten a single line of Shakespeare yet.  Got "Valley of the Dolls"
three times, though. . . .