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Oprah, chief spokesperson for America's obese and bored, at first said that the Surface RT was like a "Toyota Prius," but quickly changed that to "Mercedes Benz" [^].
In Hangzhou, China, a Gangnam-style dancing robot wins first prize in robot-dancing contest [^].
The fact that I experience these two events as connected convinces me that I am sick in the head, which other people have been telling me for years, but I have, always, denied that, with bared fangs, until now, when I heard myself saying it.
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Well that does it - I'm getting a Surface.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Well that does it - I'm getting a SurfaceGangnam dancing robot.
Fuxed (as they say in NZ)
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When I see those robots, I always have to think of this[^]. Please note who does not sing that song. 
Their microcontrollers are a little weak for true AI, I certainly don't want to play around with some kind of robot BASIC (why does it always have to be BASIC?) and (for the ROBONOVAs) some more spophisticated sensors or hands would also help.
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CDP1802 wrote: Please note who does not sing that song
That's very intriguing; I knew that the original Ray Bolger recording was re-done to be more lively; are you saying that's not (one of) Bolger's or Garland's own voices ?
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No, not quite. We were talking about robots, but it's the scarecrow and not the tin man who would like to have a brain.
modified 4-Nov-12 7:25am.
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Hi CDP1802,
Well, your subtlety ran off me like rain off teflon: I assumed, because your link was to the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and Dorothy (Judy Garland) singing that song, that you were referring to some interesting factoid about their duet in the movie I wasn't aware of.
Now, I consider this failure of mine to connect your comments to the gangnam-robot, a possible sign that I am not as sick in the head as I was telling myself I was earlier
Did you know that the first actor playing the tin-man in the movie was going to be Ray Bolger, and that Bolger lobbied very hard to swap roles with the actor who played the scarecrow ?
The original actor playing the tin-man then almost died as a result of inhaling the aluminium powder make-up they put on him. The studio execs thought something was fishy about that actor's absence from the set, and didn't believe the actor was really sick until: they went to the hospital, and found him in an iron-lung.
So, another actor was brought in to play the tin-man; and, this time, the make-up artists used a protective coating over the actor's skin, before applying whatever it was that made his flesh look metallic.
Thanks for the puzzle !
best, Bill
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Worry not Bill. We've all had moments like yours. It was comforting to read that Oprah has taken time out from eating greasy burgers and dodging salads to endorse the Surface. I have no choice but to order one just as soon as I can lever myself off the sofa.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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BillWoodruff wrote: Oprah, chief spokesperson for America's obese and bored
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