>> This is slightly different to constructing sentences which are very 
>> wordy but don't "say" anything. 
> 
> There was a conference on linguistics or some such where the authors 
> took markov chains from a few earlier papers and constructed a 
> completely random paper to submit, got it accepted, and presented it. 
> They were apparently up to the fifth or sixth slide before people 
> started to catch on that it was literally random nonsense.

Apparently this has been done more than once...

Hence my earlier comment about *Markov chains*! :-P

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