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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!coombs!fagan
  2. From: fagan@coombs.anu.edu.au (Michael Fagan)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: what motivates abian
  5. Date: 25 Dec 92 13:08:45 GMT
  6. Organization: Australian National University
  7. Lines: 33
  8. Message-ID: <fagan.725288925@coombs>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
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  13.     Every day old Abian would walk out to the middle of his front paddock
  14. and stand there for hours on end.
  15.  
  16.     His neighbour, worried that the old bloke might be starting to go a
  17. bit senile, decided to pay him a visit and check that everything was all right.
  18.  
  19.     "Abian," he said, "every day for the past few weeks I've seen you
  20. standing out in the middle of your front paddock, Is there a problem?" 
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  22.     "No, mate, no worries," Abian replied. "I'm trying to win the
  23. Nobel Prize, that's all."
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  25.     "The Nobel Prize?" queried the neighbour. "How the hell do you
  26. reckon you can win the Nobel Prize?"
  27.  
  28.     "Ah, well" said Abian. "I heard all about it on the radio, see. They
  29. said that to win the Nobel Prize you had to be out standing in your field."
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  34. ;|               "If there's artificial intelligence,                |
  35. ;|       then there's bound to be some artificial stupidity."        |
  36. ;|                                                                   |
  37. ;| #include <std-disclaimer>   "Psionics is all in the mind!"        |
  38. ;|     fagan@coombs.anu.edu.au                               ,--_|\  |
  39. ;|                                                          /      \ |
  40. ;| Michael Fagan Jnr.                                       \_.--_*/ |
  41. ;| Australian National University                                 v  |
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