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#1 2008-09-12 1:09 pm
Ah, the 1980's!
Those of you who are really young probably never heard about how we all had household robots back in those days.
Of course, that was before our mechanized servants rose up against us. That's why folks never speak of the Great Robot Age, and why you don't see robots in the home anymore, except for the occasional Roomba. Too many painful memories, too many loved ones slain by our own twisted creations.
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#2 2008-09-12 1:59 pm
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Patience is a virtue of the weak for it makes them stand still long enough for the strong to crush them with ease.
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#3 2008-09-12 2:45 pm
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Cool, Daleks for the home!
I just make smurf up as I go along.
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#4 2008-09-12 2:53 pm
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Damn, was that a KIT?
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#5 2008-09-12 3:07 pm
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No, it was a cat. And we may have words there yet.
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#6 2008-09-12 4:28 pm
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Isn't that the house robot in Runaway? Please don't make me rent a bad 80's movie to remember. 
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#8 2008-09-12 6:57 pm
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#9 2008-09-12 8:25 pm
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Dr. Who wrote:
Cool, Daleks for the home!
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Good thing we destroyed all these Hero Jrs.
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#11 2008-09-12 8:39 pm
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I wanted one of those robot kits in the worst way, but at 14 didnt have anywhere near the income to get one.
I wonder if you can still find the kits?
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#13 2008-09-13 4:19 pm
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Hell, I can barely remember this morning.
The storm starts when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping, the storm starts stopping.
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#14 2008-09-13 4:23 pm
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"Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb."
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#15 2008-09-13 6:49 pm
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I had much smaller robot kits in the 80s.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#16 2008-09-13 7:13 pm
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The 80's for me was more about Atari and the NES, playing with my LEGO, fun with my friends when I had some that liked to socialize and going to Christian school.
Not much about robots for me. We did get our first computer back then though. Sadly it was not an Altair or a Macintosh or Tandy or Commodore or anything cool. It was a homebrew IBM compatible clone with DOS. Though we went through a few before finally settling on the one we kept for 6 years until the early 90's when we got a Windows 386 machine.
Though we did keep the 286 and when our 386 crashed to death once, I dug it back out in the mid-90's and taught myself QBasic on it.
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#17 2008-09-13 10:10 pm
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TheConfuzed1 wrote:
Hell, I can barely remember this morning.
My mom says you cooked a decent breakfast, but you forgot to pay her. Again.
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#18 2008-09-14 6:23 am
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Re: Ah, the 1980's!
Bren wrote:
Those of you who are really young probably never heard about how we all had household robots back in those days.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/ … athkit.jpg
Of course, that was before our mechanized servants rose up against us. That's why folks never speak of the Great Robot Age, and why you don't see robots in the home anymore, except for the occasional Roomba. Too many painful memories, too many loved ones slain by our own twisted creations.
The original vaporware. I would love to have a robot to message my feet right now... until football starts in which it could perform other needy duties of course.
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#19 2008-09-14 7:54 pm
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Bren wrote:
TheConfuzed1 wrote:
Hell, I can barely remember this morning.
My mom says you cooked a decent breakfast, but you forgot to pay her. Again.
But... Hey... I'm supposed to say that! 
The storm starts when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping, the storm starts stopping.
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#20 2008-09-15 2:01 pm
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I find it hilarious that in 20 years, we have made absolutely no advancements in the field of home robots. Heck, according to that ad we've taken a few steps back. The only robot you can really get these days is a Roomba, and it certainly doesn't remind me about my appointments!
"I'd rather be told, 'Have a nice day.' by someone who doesn't mean it, than 'F*** you!' by someone who does." - Lewis Black
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#21 2008-09-15 2:16 pm
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OTOH, we now have a robot that sucks.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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