I recently was cleaning out a filing cabinet when I ran across an article on SIMP tables dated June of 1975. The funny part of this article is that it was written as part of a series called “Department of Golden Oldies”. SMIP tables, also known as semantic tables, can be used to generate random sentences. These sentences look like they should have some meaning but are complete nonsense. When I first ran into this article, I wrote a program that used the Simp tables to generate random sent...
