stupid question game

[who me]

banned for not taking up boat racing .

[Boikat]

What kind of question is that?

[who me]

It isn't ! HA ! you fell into my clever trap.
To be or not to be ? that is the question.

[who me]

where is every one ?
I'm so alone hear.

[waytanblee]

I'm here WM, again, after six months of absence (since my latest appearance that is.) I got put into the psych ward for driving my car when mum didn't want me to. All she has to do is ring the doctors and say, "Oh, the boy is sick again," and then they take me into hospital. I got hit 30 times by some guy I called an idiot in there this time, and three threats of violence.

What I want to know is why the TV talking to me is a bad thing, it being that it is so much fun!

[Qray]

You know why, my friend. Because it's not really talking to you.

We can put a man on the Moon, but why haven't we perfected egg-timer cloning yet? I wants me a clone!

[Boikat]

They haven't because because a flood of cloned egg-timers on the market would crash the egg-timer market, and plunge the Universe into utter chaos.. No, wait....

Where can I find an antique moss covered family cradenza?

[who me]

in a antique store.

I wonder if Q is a figment of my imagination.

[Qray]

You wish!

Actually, Q is real. It is your imagination which is a figment.

Am I alive, or am I sentient A.I. who only thinks it is me?

[who me]

what if you are a living A.I. who thinks it is you ?
well at least we will always have VALIS.
unless it is all just voices in our minds.
How can we be sure ?

[Qray]

It all depends what the voices are saying. If they are talking about "dames" and "flappers" you are channeling someone from the 1920's. If it is encouraging your to help it merge with its twin, called Neuromancer, it's an A.I. If it is mentoring you to be lewd, lascivious and wants to know where the vodka is at, yup, that's probably Q.

If a Turing machine is angels dancing on a keyboard, and I am just a sentient A.I. suffering from an identity crisis, would I be a logger stomping a jig on a calculator?

well at least we will always have VALIS.

And Wintermute.

[waytanblee]

Hrm... It definitely is talking to me... The puzzle to me is why it isn't to anyone else.

No, you'd be a spider lightly dancing on it's web. A spider has so many lenses in it's eyes that it would have a hard time securing another's identity, me thinks.

Why do I always split infinitives, and what is the purpose of a split infinitive anyway, is there some magical divine usage for one?