[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:33:35 -0500

The U.S. Invading Iraq really taught those potential terrorists a thing or two. It was good old fashioned police work that caught them.

No, Andy, it was good new Australian counterintelligence that caught them. The police are out directing traffic.

Sometimes I think "Andy" is a computer program. This imagined "Andy" browses posts for key words which then trigger scripts that choose among options like:

1. Bush is evil and stupid, as is everyone remotely associated with him.

2. Americans are stupid, incompetent at everything, and we are all doomed.

I wouldn't mind this too much if he didn't go out of his way to misread my posts, and turn them into occasions to repeat the same (1) and (2)points above.

Then there is the other "Andy," who proves he is not a computer program by posting interesting comments and links and riling people.

Hmm. Maybe he only runs the "Andy" program when he is otherwise occupied overseeing the extensive grounds of his palatial estate at Amago-on-Hudson. When he's outside in jodhpur breeches, selecting which Arabian stallion to ride, the "Andy" program is on, letting us know that--no matter what we write--it boils down to (1) and (2) above.

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