From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 16:17:29 MDT
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:57:30 +0200, Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:11:03PM -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:
>> For some unknown reason, probably due to traumatic events
>> suffered while I was quite young, whenever I'm around heavy
>> moving machinery, I vigorously shout "I am goodlife!"
>>
>> I've always wondered what the source of this impulse is.
>
> Fred Saberhagen's _Berserker_ stories. :-)
Ah, but can such terms as "goodlife" even be _processed_ as something other
than an oxymoron, or a nominative-placeholder that hashes to the address of
weighted-nominative-placeholder "to-be-exterminated-later"? If Berserkers
have any time to consider such matters, I wonder what they conclude.
MMB, goodwrench
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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