Markv Shaney

See http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/shaney.html (BrokenLink 2005-04-18)and http://www.strout.net/python/tidbits.html#shaney

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This [python] script, by GregMcFarlane?, implements MarkEllison?'s infamous Mark V. Shaney text-generating robot. Given some example text, Shaney will generate random text in a similar style. When given a large collection of messages such as a newsgroup or mailing list digest, it can generate some uncannily lively discussion.

See also MegaHal, a similar (but somewhat more sophisticated) program.