> Hello, I am Juttiza.* Hello, I … I feel burned out.> Did you come to me because you are burned out, and have you read help under meta? * Yes, but maybe I've been here too long.> You aren't sure? It’s always a good idea to do a thorough search, first.* No, I’m not sure - are my ideas rotten? > You are being a bit negative, fishbone. * How about this one, a wind-powered, flambé, flying turkey?> Why do you ask - were you denied custard at an early age? * Is it a good idea title?> I'm not sure I understand you fully - sounds like bad science.* Well, you attach a giant slingshot made of bicycle inner tubes between two trees and stretch it with an army surplus parachute flown like a kite when it's real windy, load it with a frozen turkey, pour on some cognac and light it before chopping off the rope to the chute.> Oh ... no idea. Say, do you have any psychological problems? * I don't know. I feel like it's a question of diminishing returns.> Do you wish to be able to know you feel like it's a question of diminishing returns, or shouldn’t you take your social chatter elsewhere?* I feel like a marked man, marked for deletion.> Tell me more about such feelings and without puns.* Well, I'm sensitive to criticism.> Do you believe it is normal to be sensitive to criticism and that this is the happy cuddle club? * I usually didn't give a rat's ass, before.> Isn’t a rat’s ass widely known to exist?* Is it really true that, "If you have to tell people your idea is good, it's not."?> We were discussing you, not me. WIBNI you did?* Well, how about, "It’s a good idea to not tell people it’s a good idea, unless it is good, and they aren’t."?> Echo. You're not really talking about me, are you?-- FarmerJohn, May 25 2004 Might such discussions spawn new ideas?
(This idea could be extended to other halfbakers, but I won't go starting a list.)-- Detly, May 25 2004 This is not meant to point a finger at jutta – something of an anonymous, dominatrix-mother figure similar to Eliza. I think there are similarities between the impersonal jargon found here and AI psychoanalysis.-- FarmerJohn, May 25 2004 Very well written. HB-Addiction is certainly a very real psychological affliction with potentially crippling effects on job-performance for a start! Surely Jutta has a duty-of-care to protect our sanity by providing this AI psychobabble facility a.s.a.p.-- dobtabulous, May 25 2004 Jutta The Hub.
<ouch> <ouch> All right, all right - puns are boring to some, but the world needs more fun. Well written [FJ]-- ConsulFlaminicus, May 25 2004 [Zan] I guess you're jesting as I am to the left, but sure, we all need a break now and then.
Thanks, others.-- FarmerJohn, May 25 2004 I'm picturing the waugsqueke version...-- DrCurry, May 25 2004 Ho ho ho. Tres bien. Voila, un croissant.-- spacemoggy, May 25 2004 The image of Lucy from Peanuts sitting in her booth with a nearly empty can that reads "5¢" under a sign that reads "œ Bakery" immediately comes to mind ...-- Letsbuildafort, May 25 2004 Which conjures a second image of someone holding a football then pulling it away just before it is kicked....oh, the imagery....-- lintkeeper2, May 25 2004 he is not himself these days!-- po, May 25 2004 Minds more in cyberspace, please, and less in anal -ysis.-- dpsyplc, May 25 2004 Reminds me of playing Zebulun four years ago.-- spiritualized, Oct 26 2004 This could extend to those text-based adventures I lost many a night to. >You are in the dark wood. Visible exits are North, East, and South. *S >You are on the pirate's beach. There is a Cave. Visible exits are North, and Cave. *Cave >You are in the pirate's cave. There is a pirate, a chest, a carpet and a lamp. The pirate is angry. Visible exits are Beach. *Say "Hello to pirate" >You don't see a pirate *Kill pirate >You don't know how to kill pirate *be nice to pirate >I don't understand be nice to pirate. The pirate ties you to the chest, laughs hysterically and leaves, rolling a large rock in front of the cave. *Look >It is dark. You cannot see. *Light lamp. >You are tied to a chest. *Help >Handsome chaps remember caveat empor. *What? >I don't know what? *Get me out of here! >You don't see a me out of here! etc....*switch-off* [+]-- zen_tom, Oct 26 2004 >Open Mailbox >The mailbox opens up to reveal a help file inside. >Read help file >It's about time you did something like that... The help file reads: Welcome to the halfbakery
The halfbakery is a communal database of invention and speculation. Its users can publish ideas and add links and commentary to other people's ideas. +-- sartep, Oct 26 2004 the thing I like most about the HB is noone yet has said, "dentworth, you're strange..." in real life I use to hear it every day. then I closed all my blinds, turned off the lights and live only by the light of the monitor, my special, special, friend.-- dentworth, Oct 26 2004 Dentworth, you're strange.
</let out the air>-- disbomber, Apr 17 2005 I can't think of a witty response to this post, but I'd like to point out that I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.-- wagster, Apr 17 2005 This is too funny :) + + +-- phundug, Apr 18 2005 Nice try [disbomber], but [TheRoberts] beat you to it, just before he self-destructed.-- dentworth, Apr 19 2005 Wow! [The Roberts] - there was one *seriously* strange HBer. I sometimes wish these deleted annos were archived - they could be useful for scaring small children.-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Apr 19 2005 [Bris] will have stashed them in her dusty electronic basement. Data archeologists will uncover them in years to come and spend years trying to figure out what it all means.-- wagster, Apr 19 2005 *I* spend years trying to figure what it all means!-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Apr 19 2005 There's a way, but it will come at a price.-- skinflaps, Apr 19 2005 Who was this [TheRoberts] fellow?-- disbomber, Apr 19 2005 He was a less polite newbie than you. He's gone now.-- wagster, Apr 19 2005 I had forgotten about this one...-- blissmiss, Nov 03 2006 random, halfbakery