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2004.Aug.07 Sat
tips for venting "computer rage"
If your robot or computer is giving you trouble (quote from Douglas Adam's Sirius Cybernetics Corporation song:
And when it breaks down
Or starts to annoy
Or grinds when it moves
And gives you no joy
Cos it's eaten your hat
Or had sex with your cat
Bled oil on your floor
Or ripped off your door
), just pick some of Dr. Smith's robot insults to describe the robot or computer to your satisfaction: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/3332/smith.html. Here are a few good ones:
Arrogant Automaton Automated Oaf Blundering Bag of Bolts Computerized Clod Cybernetic Simpleton Digitised Dunce Hulking Mass of Mechanical Ignorance Mechanized Misguided Moron Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal Sorry Specimen of Computerhood Traitorous Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard Traitorous Transistorized Toad Worthless Electronic Scrapheap Tyrannus Thesaurus