March 13, 2006
Bet you thought I'd forgotten about this
This week's Six Things is part of a series. (Here's where to read part one and part two if you're not caught up with the very complicated plot.) And I know it was a total lie the last time I said it, but this storyline will continue (and conclude) next week. Really.
Maybe it's just me, but I think Chatbot's up to something.
Posted by: The Dan at March 13, 2006 07:38 AMYay! He's back! Go Johnny go!
Posted by: David. at March 13, 2006 07:39 AMNo, no, John Henry! Trust not in the nefarious equivocating Chatbot!
(Thanks, Francis, for reviving this plot line! I will cringe with dread until next week's conclusion. If people ask why I'm cringing, I'll direct them to the URL.)
Posted by: Matt at March 13, 2006 08:17 AMFar be it from me to speak against extra legs, but why would you need them for chatting? Must have been an upper-management decision.
Posted by: rikchik at March 13, 2006 09:29 AMChatbot's got the extra legs to appeal to the non-bipedal demographic. After all, John skews humanoid.
Posted by: Tortoise at March 13, 2006 11:08 AMActually, I think the legs are just for added stability.
Posted by: Francis at March 13, 2006 11:16 AMCurses! This plotline is intersecting the plotline of my favorite animated show, Futurama, in which:
http://www.geocities.com/theneutralplanet/transcripts/season5/4ACV13.html
[The phone rings. Coilette giggles and skips over to it. She picks it up.] Hello? What? A guest spot on Late Night With Humorbot 5.0? I'd love to! [She gasps.] My own limo? No I don't have my own limo. You'd better send one. [She hangs up.]
Now, we all know that two plotlines intersect in at most one plot point. (Unless the plotting is non-Euclidean.) So I'm wondering, Francis, what's the point?
(I assume you're building up to it....)
Those aren't legs, they're conversation threads.
Posted by: Thane Plambeck at March 13, 2006 12:58 PMI was going to post "Maybe it's just me, but I think Chatbot's up to something." And then I saw that Dan had posted exactly what I wanted to, word for word. So I didn't post anything at all.
Posted by: Christopher at March 13, 2006 11:07 PMNeither did I.
Although, the scare quotes around "agreed" seem ominous. Also, Chatbot's smirk is quite suggestive. Always distrust smirking robots. That's my motto, it is.
John Henry looks like he should be singing, "Oh I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay...." That really turns me on.
Posted by: Mona Buonanotte at March 14, 2006 01:10 PM