Re: This sentence is uncopyrightable (period).

At 04:09 PM 10/23/02 -0400, David Dailey wrote, among much much else:
> it seems like the sort of thing that if Bertrand Russell didn't write it
> then Douglass Hofstadter would have. It was just a matter of time.

Here's something somebody actually did write:

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters  will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." [Robert Wilensky (1997), in the "Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations", published September 2002.] (quotation lifted by me from Michael Quinion's Worldwide Words newsletter)

I had to stop reading David's post about midway, since it was making my eyes glaze over and my brain start to hurt. Luckily, the merger doctrine spares us from having to respond in kind.

Vance

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