In a way Cow Tools was too simple rather than too hard, so people thought there must be more to it.

I don't think the joke itself is a bad idea. I remember The Simpsons doing the room full of monkeys on typewriters where one comes up with "it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" which in a way is a similar joke, right? i.e. Not a good result, but funny because it's still much more than you'd ever expect in reality.

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firesteelrain 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Simpsons joke has a reference. It’s not a Simpsons original.

It is the infinite monkey theorem from the late 19th and early 20th century.

	▲	hamburglar 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The joke was a reference to that pop culture idea which pointed out that if the infinite monkeys thing is real, there should also necessarily be products that are very close to great works but not quite right.
	▲	oneeyedpigeon 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's the context of the joke, but it's not the source of the humour.