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Darren Grey

Darren Grey
Cyborgs: Taking Stock

Damien looked intensely over the model before him. Her long, slim legs, the graceful curves of her body, the demure face… He shivered with delight.

“Is she fully equipped?” he asked. “For… everything?”

The salesman adjusted his visor. “Why, yessir. As the latest in organic and cybernetic fusion technology she is capable of all manner of… functions. She is even self-cleaning and auto-repairing.”

“Mm, good.” He wanted her badly, so very badly. But the price was extreme. Could he justify it?

Her wide eyes blinked at him and she bleated a gentle “baaa” sound. All willpower shattered. “I’ll take her!”
 

Frank

Frank
It kind of makes you wonder what sort of dreams those androids are having about electric sheep.

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Cathy

Cathy
Cyborgs: I, Cyborg

The slow one jabs me with his pencil. I crackle and spark. The patient one speaks.

"Larry, stop."

So audio still functions. Motor skills don’t.

"Frank?"

"What?"

"Can’t we just buy another?"

The patient one sighs, peering into my circuits.

"Can’t afford it. And dammit, Larry, you know this one wasn’t designed for… that sort of thing."

More sighs; jabs; recriminations. I would suggest they use each other, but basic cleaner builds like me have no voice.

Then it goes dark.

"Crap. We’ll get another."

"Great! Can we get a female model this time? This one’s stubble makes me itch."
 

Cathy

Cathy
Bikky said:
'Damn this left leg still doesn't pace the same distance of the right.'

'Have you tried to adjust the discomboubleator counter interface by naught point four zeros one two nine?'

'I can't, The processor only handles six decimal places.'

'Have you tried reducing your right leg's reach?'

'Yeah but the stride is too short and I end up on my face.'

'You're stuffed then mate. You need a new AMD Opteron thirty six thousand and twenty.'

'Can't afford that.'

'Well you did choose that Intel Pentium, which can't add one hundred correctly.'
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I like :D
 

Bikky

Bikky
Darren Grey said:
Damien looked intensely over the model before him. Her long, slim legs, the graceful curves of her body, the demure face… He shivered with delight.

“Is she fully equipped?” he asked. “For… everything?”

The salesman adjusted his visor. “Why, yessir. As the latest in organic and cybernetic fusion technology she is capable of all manner of… functions. She is even self-cleaning and auto-repairing.”

“Mm, good.” He wanted her badly, so very badly. But the price was extreme. Could he justify it?

Her wide eyes blinked at him and she bleated a gentle “baaa” sound. All willpower shattered. “I’ll take her!”
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Cathy said:
The slow one jabs me with his pencil. I crackle and spark. The patient one speaks.

"Larry, stop."

So audio still functions. Motor skills don’t.

"Frank?"

"What?"

"Can’t we just buy another?"

The patient one sighs, peering into my circuits.

"Can’t afford it. And dammit, Larry, you know this one wasn’t designed for… that sort of thing."

More sighs; jabs; recriminations. I would suggest they use each other, but basic cleaner builds like me have no voice.

Then it goes dark.

"Crap. We’ll get another."

"Great! Can we get a female model this time? This one’s stubble makes me itch."
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Like both of these, They're bordering on the *ahem* risky side of imagination, but that's what makes them funny, could be the story was totally innocent.
 
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el_tel

el_tel
Risk/Reward

Cutlass Jack turns to the computer:

'Did anything survive?'

'Scanning debris for remaining cannisters...'

If he'd surrendered, this wouldn't be necessary.

'Food... Textiles... Cybernetics... Rad...'

'Cybernetics? Scoop it.'

Once inside the cargo bay, a deep scan is done.

'Manifest reads bio-lubricant pumps, but X-ray shows humanoid forms. Beta-wave activity detected in cranial areas.'

'Cyborgs?'

'Negative. No organic molecules detected.'

'Robots?'

'Negative. Wave function is analogue.'

A cold chill runs through Jack...

'...AI?'

'Possibly.'

'Dump it. And cycle up the lazers.'

Some risks are just not worth taking.
 
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Bikky

Bikky
Just realised now i've used the word counter, Darren Grey's latest is 101 and Cathy's is 106 words....

Quick Time to correct them.
 

Darren Grey

Darren Grey
I guess that wordcounter site is wrong - mine and Cathy's are definitely 100.

Edit: Seems that the wordcounter site gets confused by apostrophes splitting up word segments. So "it's" counts as 2 words on it.
 
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Cathy

Cathy
Darren Grey said:
I guess that wordcounter site is wrong - mine and Cathy's are definitely 100.

Edit: Seems that the wordcounter site gets confused by apostrophes splitting up word segments. So "it's" counts as 2 words on it.
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Oh, it's Mr Data? It doesn't recognize contractions.
 

Ian Phillips

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Ian Phillips
A heads-up about the poll.

This weekend is a holiday weekend in Holland.

Accordingly, I have activities (playing card games and being a taxi driver for one of my daughters) friday evening and saturday morning.

Which means that the poll will be put up sometime saturday afternoon.

I will check all the drabbles in Word for a word count and also read them (!) if there looks to be funny word count. So, no 70 word submissions this time! :)

Monday - more of the same, so the poll will close Monday evening 20:00 (British time).
 
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Bikky

Bikky
Darren Grey said:
I guess that wordcounter site is wrong - mine and Cathy's are definitely 100.

Edit: Seems that the wordcounter site gets confused by apostrophes splitting up word segments. So "it's" counts as 2 words on it.
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******, I best re-count in word LOL.

*edit* oops, didn't realise that word was a naughty :0

However, I've just been to word counter, pasted mine in again with 100 words, then added the word "doesn't" and it came up with 101 words :eek:

something going wrong here Grr
 
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Bikky

Bikky
I've edited my drabble, word had it at 92 words, so i've altered a little to make 100 there. Crappy word counter, It's fine with the likes of self-cleaning being 1 word, but I'll is two words :mad:
 

Cathy

Cathy
Bikky said:
Crappy word counter, It's fine with the likes of self-cleaning being 1 word, but I'll is two words :mad:
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That's just arsey of it. A contraction such as "I'll" is definitely one word.

All the drabble challenges in which I've participated accepted hyphenated words like "self-cleaning" and "x-ray" and "topsy-turvy" as standard. We can also use established colloquialisms in quoted speech, e.g. "dunno" and "dammit". As long as we're all agreed on the standard rules no worries.
 

Bikky

Bikky
Cathy said:
That's just arsey of it. A contraction such as "I'll" is definitely one word.

All the drabble challenges in which I've participated accepted hyphenated words like "self-cleaning" and "x-ray" and "topsy-turvy" as standard. We can also use established colloquialisms in quoted speech, e.g. "dunno" and "dammit". As long as we're all agreed on the standard rules no worries.
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Yeah, Standard rule, We'll base the word count on MS word (or anything that counts words in the same fashion)
 

el_tel

el_tel
But I don't have Word.
I do have access to the online word-count tho, as does everybody, so better to make that the rule (like Dictionary Corner in Countdown).
 

Frank

Frank
A website that actually manages to count the right number of words would be nice. I don't have access to Microsoft Word either.

I'm happy to go with whatever measurement system people decide. And could someone please check to see if my drabble is the right length if MS Word is the chosen standard?
 
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