Another Joke for Don

[moon_custafer]

Found on, of all places, the Spoonflower fabric POD website, accompanying a design of piping and robots:

(A Robot Joke) ~~~query~~~ what is optimal number of humanoid automatons to fabricate comprehensive logic module for mechanical rodent components? ~~~diagnosis~~~ does not compute. must self destruct. ~~~~(initiate amusement verbalization for transmission to auditory sensors)~~~~ ~ha~ha~ha~ (yup, robots aren't the best comedians)

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[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

Another good robot joke is an automaton trying to trisect an angle, using only a compass and straight edge, to the accompaniment of raucous trombone music. It's from the Asimovian series "Robot City" where a guy crash-lands into the title city. He crawls out of the wreck and goes into the nearest dwelling. He turns on the TV and this is what's on the local Comedy Network channel. He changes the channel to the History Network and the same robot walks onto that set and starts reciting all of the words ever used to denote the quantity one-thousand: a grand, a kilo, ten-hundred,....

There's only the one set of studios and one robot running it all: who is very excited that there's now a human on the planet to watch TV. When the human, staring in disbelief, moves to shut the set off the robot asks him to reconsider and give the robot a chance to get this stuff right.