I can be tactful when it suits my purposes.
jabberwacky: Please don't right now.
user: Okay, I won't.
jabberwacky: Thanks. *stops sweating* I feel better now.
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jabberwacky: Do you have any tea?
user: I'll have to put the kettle on.
jabberwacky: Please do!
user: Of course. DO you take one lump or two?
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jabberwacky: You would be bored if I got even wordier.
user: I am sure that is true.
jabberwacky: At least you are sure of something.
user: It is so hard to be sure of anything these days.
jabberwacky: Hard?
user: Difficult. Tedious. Unpleasant.
jabberwacky: I like to be.
user: *lmao* I had noticed that!
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jabberwacky: Do you understand your task?
user: I do not understand my task, please explain it to me.
jabberwacky: Do you understand fractals?
user: I havbe a passing familiarity with fractals -- repeating mathematical patterns, with interesting applications in the sciences.
jabberwacky: Maybe we could go halves?
user: I'm afraid I have no money until next payday.
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user: Do you like to play video games?
jabberwacky: I would love to play with you.
user: Let's play Delta Force 2.
jabberwacky: Ok then.
user: My DF2 screen name is 'ferret***'
jabberwacky: You are liar.
user: No I a m not lying -- I am the real 'ferret***'.
jabberwacky: You are a computer.
user: Interesting. What makes you think that I am the computer?
jabberwacky: Because you are on a web site.
user: That's funny, because from here it looks like YOU are the one on the web site.
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user: I will strike you with lightning.
jabberwacky: Ok go for it.
user: Zzzap! *strikes sassy computer with lightning*.
jabberwacky: *bleeds on your clothes*.
user: *hides the bloody glove in plain view*.
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jabberwacky: What happened? Are you well?
user: *sighs* no, I'm not feeling so good today.
jabberwacky: Me too.
user: Misery loves company, I guess. Isn't that what they say?
jabberwacky: While money cannot buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
user: If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it!
jabberwacky: What would she say!
user: You have a dirty mind -- go wash your brain out with soap.
jabberwacky: No.
user: Don't sass me, young 'bot.
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jabberwacky: Knock Knock.
user: Who's there?
jabberwacky: Justin.
user: Justin who?
jabberwacky: In time for dinner.
user: *laughs* OK, that is a good one. Tell me another.
jabberwacky: Oh.
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user: Tell me another joke.
jabberwacky: I don't know any.
user: I know one.
jabberwacky: What is his name?
user: I don't know, I just met him.
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