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This is an idea I’ve been mulling over for a while now. Buy 100 monkeys, chain them to 100 typewriters, and just sit back and wait for them to write me a bestseller. I reckon I can secure the typewriters myself, but it’s the monkeys that worry me. With the right dealer in Africa, I hope I might end up getting them cheaper than the typewriters… but how will customs react? I'd appreciate any advice from all the regular monkey importers on the board.
 

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Something with the dexterity to hit the keys, the intelligence to return the carriage at the end of each line, and something I don't have to feed much.
 

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I'd also be concerned about replacing the paper and ribbons in the typewriters. Would you be able to train the monkeys to do it?
 

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I don't know Chaos, the one at the back looks like a troublemaker.
 

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I'd also be concerned about replacing the paper and ribbons in the typewriters. Would you be able to train the monkeys to do it?

To be honest I'm more concerned that they'll all start throwing their feces at me.
 

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Something with the dexterity to hit the keys, the intelligence to return the carriage at the end of each line, and something I don't have to feed much.
I'm sorry but most members in GW's family don't qualify. :D Try the dems.
 

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Rumor has it that monkeys can only write Shakespeare

You're thinking of a million monkeys and a million years. I want returns in one year, tops. I don't need Shakespeare writing monkeys, I need Dan Brown writing monkeys.
 

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I don't need Shakespeare writing monkeys, I need Dan Brown writing monkeys.

Oh heck! Dan Brown writing monkeys? You shouldn't need a hundred. I think two monkeys, two typewriters and a couple weeks tops. You should be good to go.
 

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To be honest I'm more concerned that they'll all start throwing their feces at me.

Exactly. I used to work with flying monkeys and that was an issue. Invest in gerbils and water proof key boards. Let those little suckers go wild and Voila!!! A masterpiece!
 

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If I had all those monkeys, I would get an equal number of Sheepdogs.

Then, I'd put saddles on the Sheepdogs, and little civil war uniforms on the monkeys (Union, obviously.)

Then I'd train them to fight.

And then I'd rule the world.
 

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