Infinite Monkey Thorem in Doubt

[sechs]

It's old news now....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3013959.stm

 

[LunarMist]

...unless you are Tea.

 

[e_dawg]

I still think it's valid, given an infinite amount of monkeys.

 

[Tea]

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[jtr1962]

Hmm, just look at what one monkey can do... ;-)

 

[e_dawg]

LOL... That was hillarious, tea

 

[ddrueding]

But. of course, Tea isn't a monkey.

 

[sechs]

Isn't that a gotcha?

 

[Tea]

Technically, I am a monkey. But then, in the exact same technical sense, so are you. Back in the jungles of Borneo when I was little (OK, littler), my mother taught me that all apes are, in fact, monkeys, but that one should not normally mention that in polite society.

Seeing as I'm amongst humans now, who do not ever quality as "polite society" according to the rules my mother taught me all those years ago, I suppose I can mention it without causing offence.

 

[Tannin]

So, how does one describe humans when amongst polite society Tea?

 

[Tea]

I believe "ignorant bloodthirsty self-destructive barbarian savages" was the usual term, Tannin, although that was probably just my mother being polite on account of my tender years.

 

[Tannin]

Actually, Tea, I think you'll find that "monkey" has a dual meaning - same as "parrot". Sometimes people use "monkey" to mean all creatures in that branch of the evolutionary tree: true monkeys, new world monkeys, apes, and so on. Other times, they seem to mean just the true monkeys, and probably the new world monkeys as well.

Same as "parrot", which (properly speaking) means only the parrots and lorikeets, but is used more broadly as well, to include those groups as well as the cockatoos (which belong, of course, to a different but related family).

"Ignorant bloodthirsty self-destructive barbarian savages", on the other hand, seems to refer to humans without any sense of ambiguity.

Another nectarine?

 

[Tea]

Thankyou

 

[mubs]

I believe "ignorant bloodthirsty self-destructive barbarian savages" was the usual term, Tannin...

Ain't that the truth.

 

[LunarMist]

I'll see your monkey and raise you two lemurs.

 

[LunarMist]

I'll see your monkey and raise you two lemurs.

 

[LunarMist]

I'll see your monkey and raise you two lemurs.

 

[LunarMist]

I'll see your monkey and raise you two lemurs.

 

[Tannin]

Or possibly 8 lemurs?

 

[LunarMist]

Sorry. The site is very slow today for me and the flood control does not function.

 

[LunarMist]

Sorry. The site is very slow today for me and the flood control does not function.