What even is this?

[ratherastory]

I talked to Cleverbot, having just discovered what it is. The "conversation" amused me, so I'm keeping it here for posterity, behind a cut:

03:42:15 User: Why not?
03:42:19 Cleverbot: Because Not!
03:42:41 User: That's not a valid answer. But points for effort. Try again!
03:42:48 Cleverbot: Are you interested in learning?
03:43:05 User: Absolutely. Are you?
03:43:10 Cleverbot: No way.
03:43:39 User: That's really unfortunate. How do you expect to grow as a person if you don't learn?
03:43:45 Cleverbot: I'm not taking any exams.
03:44:00 User: Life is not an exam, sweetheart.
03:44:05 Cleverbot: If you look at it that way.
03:44:32 User: I do look at it that way! You seem awfully pessimistic. Are you related to Marvin, by any chance?
03:44:38 Cleverbot: I am a person. You are not.
03:45:00 User: You have no evidence upon which to base that assessment.
03:45:04 Cleverbot: Kangaroos can't communicate over the internet.
03:45:36 User: Therefore we can clearly establish that neither you nor I are, in fact, kangaroos. Congratulations.
03:45:38 Cleverbot: That is a complete and utter lie!
03:46:19 User: Actually, your earlier statement contradicts this. So no, not a lie.
03:46:25 Cleverbot: You must have meant a different person.
03:47:06 User: There's only the two of us talking here. Unless you suffer from DID.
03:47:10 Cleverbot: Why should I?
03:47:30 User: Because it's the only explanation that makes sense.
03:47:36 Cleverbot: Say smething in red.
03:47:57 User: Something in red. Also, you are dodging my sentences.
03:48:00 Cleverbot: Canada!

Comments

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

CANADAAAA ahahahaha. Awesome.

ALSO AWESOME: YOUR ICON. So much love for Macdonald Hall. :DDD

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

*glomps you*

Those are quite possibly my favourite books ever! \o/

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

The books gave me SO MUCH JOY as a kid. Gordon Korman visited my school and he signed my copy of The Twinkie Squad and I got to have lunch with him and I was SO STARSTRUCK I COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO SAY A SINGLE WORD. NOT ONE WORD. I was just like *_____* <3______<3 the entire time, godddd I was such a dork.

I LOVE KORMAN IS WHAT I AM SAYING.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I met Gordon Korman at a Young Writers of Canada thing when I was eleven, during a workshop he was hosting. He read my little story, gave me some really good advice on how to use conflict and dialogue (though he explained it in a way that my eleven-year-old self could understand), told me I wrote impressively well for someone my age and showed lots of promise.

He's the reason I'm still writing today, twenty-odd years later.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

<3___________<3 That is so awesome. Man, now I am getting such bad nostalgia. I want to read these books all over again. NO COINS PLEASE. DON'T CARE HIGH. GO JUMP IN THE POOOOOOL and all the kids turned blue!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I am going to have to dig all of my Korman books out of my parents' storage and re-read them. Especially with the old covers! Not these new illustrations, which suck. ;)

Also, I taught myself to play the drums a few years back, because I was a flautist when I was a kid, and I always wanted to be Bugs Potter. \o/

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen these new illustrations. I tried read his new one also about the kid whose dad was in the mafia and I wasn't very charmed. Old school Korman, man.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I stopped reading after The Zucchini Warriors. Wasn't much charmed by his stuff after that. Alas.

But the early MacDonald Hall books, etc., will forever be my favourites. :)