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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15060310

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This made me LOL...

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Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard.


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Monkeys are not apes, even virtual ones.

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Especially the ones that run libraries.

However IRC macaques are monkeys, and the oft-quoted phrase does mention monkeys rather than apes...

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jonbwfc wrote:
However IRC macaques are monkeys, and the oft-quoted phrase does mention monkeys rather than apes...


Which was rather my point. The article mentions ape and monkey as if they're interchangeable.

Sorry. Pedantic hat on today. ;)

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jonbwfc wrote:
Especially the ones that run libraries.

My mum works in a library.

* shakes fist *

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adidan wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
Especially the ones that run libraries.

My mum works in a library.

* shakes fist *

:D

Is that why you have a tail and like bananas? ;)

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Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard.

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