Fay and Ray are committed Christians and go to church every Sunday at Easter and Christmas, but they don’t like it much because of the people.

Fay does a lot of voluntary work and Ray contributes to environmental concerns. He is a shareholder in a South American deforestation project. There’s enough rain without rain forests making more.

They have adopted a red-faced spider monkey in Colchester Zoo. He’s called Zombie.

Friday 15 October 2010

The Nature Of Genius, Infinity And Eternity

"Some clever Dicky said that if you lock in an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters for all eternity you would get the Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.
Fay and Ray say this is wrong wrong wrong.
Firstly, typewriters are now very hard to come by - it's all word processors these days.
Secondly, where would you get a barn big enough for all these monkeys? Certainly not anywhere near Bungay these days what with all the new houses going up, although it is quieter around Mettingham.
Thirdly, monkeys can't type! We have spent many hours observing our adopted Red-Faced Spider Monkey, Zombie in Colchester Zoo, so know what we are talking about when it comes to primate talents. Typing is NOT one of them.


No. What you would get with an infinite number of monkeys in a shed full of typewriters (if you could get them) is monkey cannibalism."

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