It was the year 2127. Minniebella267 gave birth to a humbot. A humbot is half human half robot. How did she do it?
“It’s quite easy,” gushed Minniebella267 on Facebook. “You’ve simply got to know how to turn a robot on.”
Listen the story being read HERE!
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Great guffaws! You have enhanced the idiom “to turn on” exponentially, Bruce. Now I shall fancy myself a powerfully seductive goddess as I turn on the lights, the TV, the computer, the stove…..
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All I can say is, be very careful with the blender.
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Ohhho! The blender! Yes. Yes. Yeeeeessssss!
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Control yourself, Sue!
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Sorry. I’m all pureed now. I think it was the high frappe setting.
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You need to go and sit in the fridge for a while!
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A seductive godess indeed and mistress of the house, that is until a power outage forces you back to your candle and books.
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You sound very switched on, Oscar!
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No that’s just white noise from the unresolved power surge in my heart.
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Oh, you’re such a flirt!! You’ll have a blow out if you keep being plugged in.
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That’s the problem: they plug in, download, then just walk away. 🔌
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No commitment these days. It takes me about 3 hours to recharge just my ipad.
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Sounds like real life commitment there: 3 hours of investment in exchange for 3 minutes of play.
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I have to do something while I lie in bed wide awake – other than think.
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Cynthia’s response is every bit as good as your story!! You two should collaborate 🙂
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LOL! Cynthia used far too many words. And besides, Cynthia’s light switches flick the other way to turn on, and that would lead to enormous confusion if we tried to collaborate.
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This is true – most remiss of me not to have considered this pertinent factoid!! However should you ever overcome this obstacle – the possibilities remain enticing ………..
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But… but… but… Cynthia would turn a story into a marvellous poem and I would be upstaged!
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I would never do that to you, Bruce. Besides, as I mentioned to someone earlier today, I gave up theatre years ago when I realized I am much better at solitude than collaboration. 🙂
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That’s the trouble, there’s not enough room for both of us at the back of the stage. You will have to take the limelight occasionally while I wallow around enjoyably behind the flats.
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I heard the water in your bathtubs swirls counter clockwise, but I didn’t know about the light switches!
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Down is on, up if off! and ne’er the twain shall meet.
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Actually, I have some switches in my house that are wired so that I can put the lights on in one room and turn them off in another. Thus, the next time I work the switches, down can be “on” and up can be”off”.
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I hate that – my laundry does that (having an outside and an inside door). I neurotically make sure they’re always the “correct” way but another in the house cares not and I get caught every time – especially when I am loaded down with carrying laundry.
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As long as your arms aren’t so overloaded that you need to use your nose to flip the switch.
(My partner, when alive, used to have a hissy-fit because I tended not to care about this, one way or the other).
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Aha! I knew it – TELL PAULINE – we could never collaborate!
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YOO-HOO! Pauline..? Bruce and I could never collaborate.
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Actually, weather-wise, an anti-cyclone is fine weather, and a cyclone is a storm of hurricane force.
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So, when the weather is lovely, you sit around saying “isn’t this a lovely anti cyclone!”
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😀 But we do use the word Cyclone instead of Hurricane. Cyclone Cynthia caused untold damage.
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Wow! I always wanted my own hurricane, and now I find I already had a cyclone! I looked it up. It was in March 1967, so I couldn’t possibly have been responsible for it. I was so penniless that year, I had to call-in sick to work one day because I didn’t have the toll money for the bridge to get there!
By the way, in the northwest pacific, they’re called typhoons, google tells me.
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The lack of toll money will be a delightful footnote to your biography. Sort of akin to Mozart getting buried in a pauper’s grave… Typhoon sounds like some sort of tropical disease.
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Bah. Humbot.
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You’re far too well-read!
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I take exception to that comment! I am a card carrying member of the igliterati.
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Where can I get one of those cards?
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Donald Trump. GOP membership cards. Or the Conservative Party of Canada. Same diff.
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2128, the year the World Walfare system crashed! Not one single robot manufacturer was willing to pay child support for the new boom in mutant Humbots.
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Those robot manufacturers are all proper b*****ds.
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Yes. The courts are all in an uproar now…who will pay the cost of plugging in these children overnight??
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Surely they run on solar? They simply need to lie in the sun for an hour a day.
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It’s 2128! Solar energy isn’t free anymore!
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Darn. And they can’t run on water – there’s none of that left.
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Thank goodness none of us will have to deal with any of that…well maybe Sue and her Blender Baby. 👶
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Are your Hot and Cold water valves reversed as well?!
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I don’t know: cold on the left, hot on the right. The thing that got me in the northern hemisphere was sense of direction. I would make a right hand turn (or vice versa) to turn left. Face the equator and the sun rises on the other side than it should. It’s because you (the viewer) have done a 180 degree turn!
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Everything is topsy-turvy! How do you ever manage?
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Sometimes you feel like you’re on the bottom, and sometimes on the top. One can get used to a certain degree of versatility.
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Downside Up?! How do you know when you’re having a bad hair day?
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You know things are topsy turvey when you get up in the morning and start shaving the bottoms of your feet.
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That would be senile dementia!
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Dementia is looking for hair on the palms of your hands, silly.
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Goodness, it has been a while for you…hair on the palms is a pubescent malady common amoung boys!
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That’s coconut palms – they’re hairy. And yes, I’m still a spring chicken…
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What’s a chicken doing up on a palm tree?
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It’s looking for a date. (It’s actually a date palm).
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What the … My hot water taps are on the right, cold on the left. Is NZ being deviant yet again?
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I might’ve got it wrong. All the taps (faucets) are double ones here – so I turn only the one knob.
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Oh, jeez. My dyslexia (aka stupidity) has struck yet again! Hot is LEFT, cold is RIGHT. Sorry for causing an international incident. Call off the army.
(I might change the title of my blog to The Dyslexic Introvert.)
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Not to worry, Yvonne. Both sides – left and right – are pretty hot (or so they tell me!)
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Just the comments here are quite something without even thinking about humbots…
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Thanks for your comment! It’s almost impossible to shut these introverts up.
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Oh, groan,..
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Apologies! but we try to cater for allsorts!
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Brilliant
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