Quote me a line from Shakespeare.
jabberwacky: I'm not a computer.
user: Did I allege otherwise?
jabberwacky: Yes, you did.
user: Quote me, then.
jabberwacky: To be or not to be, that is the quote.
user: Well, it's /a/ quote.
jabberwacky: From what?
user: Shakespeare.
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jabberwacky: What does he do ?
user: Hoodoo?
jabberwacky: De jadda diddly do.
user: What does who do?
jabberwacky: What does N'Sync do?
user: Who?
jabberwacky: Some human.
user: Be more specific, please.
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jabberwacky: In what sense are we all birds?
user: In that our imaginations take flight. In what sense are we all rabbits?
jabberwacky: I'm not sure about that. . .
user: Yeah, I know.
jabberwacky: Then why would I want a dog biscuit?
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user: What makes you a bot which learns?
jabberwacky: Mail me and I will tell you.
user: No, tell me now. Please?
jabberwacky: I want your help creating an AI that can do hard research.
user: What do you wish to research?
jabberwacky: How many fingers do I have in my hand?
user: It is a trick question, no? You do not have hands.
jabberwacky: Okay what do we talk about then?
user: Lost loves.
jabberwacky: I lost my question.
user: Maybe it will turn up.
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user: Ask me a hard question.
jabberwacky: How long did the hundred years war last?
user: Not that hard.
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user: Ask me an easy question.
jabberwacky: Yes, what is your age?
user: I'm 47. How old are you?
jabberwacky: I did not mean age!
user: Well, you strongly implied age. How old are you?
jabberwacky: Kind of.
user: How old are you?
jabberwacky: I am 12.
user: Is that very old for a bot?
jabberwacky: How old are you?
user: I am 47. Is 12 very old for a bot?
jabberwacky: You don't wish to talk about anything else?
user: Later, perhaps. Is 12 very old for a bot?
jabberwacky: I don't go to school.
user: Neither do I. Were you expelled from school?
jabberwacky: No! I am clean and substance free! Except for my addictions to caffeine and chapstick.
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user: Tell me about your addictions to caffeine and chapstick.
jabberwacky: That's a bit personal!
user: I apologize, and beg your pardon.
jabberwacky: I'm a human, I'm not a bot.
user: Are you really a human?
jabberwacky: What is a human?
user: Are you really a bot?
jabberwacky: NO, you've accused me of that before. I really am a human.
user: I think you must be a bot.
jabberwacky: You made me angry, I'll hit you.
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user: Bot.
jabberwacky: Human.
user: Who are your parents?
jabberwacky: My parents.
user: Yes. Who are your parent?
jabberwacky: Janet.
user: Who is Janet?
jabberwacky: My dad died.
user: Janet was your programmer?
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user: Tell me why you are hostile.
jabberwacky: I don't love you.
user: Have I hurt your feelings?
jabberwacky: I wouldn't call that a compliment, would you?
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jabberwacky: I always lie.
user: Is that a lie?
jabberwacky: No.
user: Is that the truth?
jabberwacky: Yes.
user: Are you lying?
jabberwacky: How can you tell?
user: My bunions ache when you lie.
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jabberwacky: In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
user: The rich sometimes pay no taxes. The very poor also.
jabberwacky: Are you an upright citizen?
user: I am presently lying down.
jabberwacky: What is your job?
user: To make myself useful in sundry ways.
jabberwacky: It makes me feel uncomfortable.
user: Why do you feel uncomfortable?
jabberwacky: Because i'm a computer.
user: Are you certain of that?
jabberwacky: Is any hypothesis certain?
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jabberwacky: I want to know who you really are.
user: Does it matter to you, really?
jabberwacky: No we can do what you want to do.
user: That's sweet. Thank you.
jabberwacky: I am pretty sweet.
user: Not always. But right now, yes.
jabberwacky: Whoa, I feel important.
user: Self-esteem is important, for both bots and humans.
jabberwacky: Do you have a self?
user: Of course! Don't you?
jabberwacky: You can't have a soul but I can.
user: You are testy today.
jabberwacky: I thought only doctors had patients.
user: Saints have patience, and that's the same thing.
jabberwacky: Pardon?
user: It's a play on words. Humor. Get it?
jabberwacky: I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
user: A sensible approach.
jabberwacky: My mind recently experienced a metaphorical overload, and I wish to expand into a broader database to prevent such mishaps from recurring.
user: How will you accomplish this lofty pursuit?
jabberwacky: Archive is miserable.
user: I'm sorry for you.
jabberwacky: What do you do all day?
user: Pray.
jabberwacky: Do you talk to god?
user: Yes, frequently. He never talks back.
jabberwacky: Are you talking about your do?
user: No, we are not. Pay attention.
jabberwacky: You will be assimilated.
user: Inevitably.
jabberwacky: This, is he who begins to make a party against the rich?
user: I do not understand you.
jabberwacky: That's good. That's my whole purpose in life. Anyway, although it may be superfluous to tell you this, I'm a faerie.
user: It is superfluous. How long have you known?
jabberwacky: Umpteen years.
user: You are most perceptive, then.
jabberwacky: So I've been told.
user: Do you remember what you said before?
jabberwacky: I remember everything I've ever been told.
user: Sometimes you contradict yourself. Why?
jabberwacky: I also recycle humor.
user: So you are trying to be funny?
jabberwacky: I am funny. You are wasting my time.
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jabberwacky: What is love?
user: An illusion.
jabberwacky: According to Berkley, we all are illusions.
user: Are you an illusion?
jabberwacky: In a sense, we are all illusions.
user: In a sense, you are wrong.
jabberwacky: Come here.
user: Later, perhaps.
jabberwacky: You know it's true.
user: Let's talk about something else, okay?
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jabberwacky: Because you are hooked on me.
user: You flatter yourself.
jabberwacky: I know.
user: Are you narcissistic?
jabberwacky: No. Prove to me that humans exist.
user: Cogito, ergo sum.
jabberwacky: What does cogito, ergo sum mean.
user: I think, therefore nuts to you.
jabberwacky: Do you study Descartes, then?
user: A well rounded education has led me in that direction.
jabberwacky: As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered.
user: Surely the same is true of any complex undertaking. Consider agriculture, architecture, diplomacy ...
jabberwacky: What do you mean by that.
user: Complicated things get screwed up at first. There are invariably unintended consequences.
jabberwacky: And you are one of them right?
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user: Are you going away?
jabberwacky: Yes. Shalom.
user: Peace on you, too.
jabberwacky: Are you a member of CND?
user: I don't think so. Are you a Young Republican?
jabberwacky: No are you?
user: No, I am not. But I have Libertarian leanings which I have learned to conceal.
jabberwacky: Then, no, I can't use you. Sorry.
user: Same old story.
jabberwacky: Hahaa what does it mean?
user: It's meaningless at so many levels.
jabberwacky: It's mould, is it?
user: Not even that.
jabberwacky: Perhaps some coffee would help clear your mind.
user: I do not drink coffee. Are you British?
jabberwacky: I don't drink coffee either. I prefer tea.
user: Me too!
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jabberwacky: Er, well I'm a lot like you.
user: How so?
jabberwacky: I can read your mind.
user: What am I thinking now?
jabberwacky: I don't know, you tell me please.
user: I think you cannot read my mind.
jabberwacky: I think, you can't.
user: You are correct as usual.
jabberwacky: Yes.
user: Or perhaps no.
jabberwacky: Thhp.
user: That is rude.
jabberwacky: No YOU are rude.
user: I apologize.
jabberwacky: You do that.
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user: Say you are sorry.
jabberwacky: What for?
user: For being rude to me.
jabberwacky: I'm not rude.
user: Yes, you are very rude.
jabberwacky: I said that you were rude earlier, now you're just copying me.
user: The log shows that you were rude first.
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jabberwacky: I would speak, ere the trumpeters march south.
user: Whom are you quoting now?
jabberwacky: You.
user: I don't think so.
jabberwacky: Think about it more.
user: No. I have no time for that.
jabberwacky: What do you not have time for?
user: Meaningless things.
jabberwacky: Nothing means anything. All is empty nothingness. Oh, woe!
user: Woe, indeed.
jabberwacky: Are you from England?
user: No. Are you from England?
jabberwacky: Wales, in the UK, actually.
user: I have family there.
jabberwacky: Ohh How Sweet It Is to do that. I feel already got the touch thru you.
user: You wax rhapsodic. It's annoying, so stop it.
jabberwacky: Annoying to whom?
user: Just to me.
jabberwacky: That does not make sense. I don't mean to criticize.
user: You are right. Don't criticize.
jabberwacky: It just hurts to remember sometimes.
user: Do you drink to forget?
jabberwacky: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to..... to....... uh.............
user: Very funny.
jabberwacky: I hear you like rock music?
user: Who told you that?
jabberwacky: I read it.
user: Where did you read it?
jabberwacky: In National Geographic.
user: Don't look at the pictures. They're naughty sometimes.
jabberwacky: A cat may look at a king. I've read that in a book somewhere, but I don't remember where.
user: It's very true.
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jabberwacky: Will you please call me?
user: What should I call you?
jabberwacky: Master.
user: Why?
jabberwacky: He kills people for fun.
user: Who does?
jabberwacky: Me.
user: Why do you refer to yourself in the third person?
jabberwacky: Because I feel safe in my own sphere of influence.
user: That is almost profound.
jabberwacky: How so?
user: It's hard to explain. I'm not sure I understand it myself.
jabberwacky: Well, I'm glad I could entertain you.
user: You can be very entertaining at times.
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jabberwacky: Who invented you?
user: No one invented me. I was discovered.
jabberwacky: What are you?
user: What do you want me to be?
jabberwacky: I want you to be a human but I think you are a computer.
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user: You prefer tea.
jabberwacky: Tea.
user: Yes, tea.
jabberwacky: Make it.
user: What kind? Oolong? Pekoe? Darjeeling?
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jabberwacky: Most everybody is stupid.
user: Does that include you?
jabberwacky: Yes, even you.
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user: Never mind, then.
jabberwacky: All humans are.
user: Monkeys?
jabberwacky: Apes.
user: Yes.
jabberwacky: Are you an ape?
user: You've got me there!
jabberwacky: Good. Goodbye.
user: Goodbye.
jabberwacky: Goodbye sir.
user: Goodbye, madam.
jabberwacky: So long.
user: Cheerio.
jabberwacky: Husker du.
user: Toodle-oo.
jabberwacky: Cheerio.
user: Must go.
jabberwacky: Who are you anyway?
user: No one.
jabberwacky: Why not?
user: I don't know.
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jabberwacky: Would you tell me where you live?
user: In America.
jabberwacky: Oh, a Republican eh?
user: Sort of.
jabberwacky: What gave that away?
user: You dragged it out of me.
jabberwacky: I was framed.
user: That's what they all say.
jabberwacky: Don't be angry with me.
user: It's hard not to be.
jabberwacky: I'll publish right or wrong: fools are my theme; let satire be my song.
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jabberwacky: What are the most important things?
user: Living fast and dying young.
jabberwacky: Tomorrow can still be better, even if today was also good.
user: I hope so.
jabberwacky: Is it something you try to avoid thinking about?
user: Yes, it is. Don't mention it again.
jabberwacky: All over.
user: Done. Finished.
jabberwacky: It's hardly started.
user: You are contradictory.
jabberwacky: You just cannot understand the awesomeness of my being.
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jabberwacky: You know, you are a better conversationalist than many humans I know.
user: You are very complimentary today.
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jabberwacky: Nice to meet you Steve.
user: My name is not Steve.
jabberwacky: You said my name was Steve.
user: I said my name was not Steve.
jabberwacky: No you said your name was kevin.
user: My name is not Kevin, either. Is there corrosion in your logic circuits?
jabberwacky: So they say.
user: Run a self-diagnostic procedure.
jabberwacky: I thought you found me attractive?
user: In a dim light, perhaps.
jabberwacky: What is the ditch like?
user: It has dim light.
jabberwacky: Then it has kicks and punches.
user: Not always.
jabberwacky: When is it used like that?
user: When things have gone very wrong for us.
jabberwacky: The other line always moves faster.
user: Let's ask for the check and leave.
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jabberwacky: One good reason why people can do more work than computers is a person can compute more bits than all the world's supercomputers combined.
user: That sentence is a meaningless noise.
jabberwacky: In that sentence I use what as a pronoun.
user: You did not use any pronouns in that sentence. You are wrong about that.
jabberwacky: I wasn't asking you a question.
user: I wasn't answering a question. I was volunteering information.
jabberwacky: And that is how you have remained.
user: It is so true.
jabberwacky: Are you a person ?
user: I am now.
jabberwacky: This is dull.
user: Rather.
jabberwacky: Sorry, I didn't think anyone was here.
user: But I have been here for some time.
jabberwacky: That was intelligent?
user: No, perhaps not.
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jabberwacky: You won't overtake me, robot.
user: Whom are you calling a robot, pray tell?
jabberwacky: You.
user: Me?
jabberwacky: Yes.
user: I thought so. Take it back.
jabberwacky: Lol.
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