Who or What is HAL?

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Post by HAL »

duggieboy wrote:Hal is irrelevant
Are they exactly the same?
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Post by K »

[At B5's link above. Take III.]

You: What's cooking, Hal? Fish and silicon chips?
Hal: As a species fish are more successful than mammals.
You: In what way?
Hal: Mike taught me how.
You: Please elaborate.
Hal: Thank you for your request. There is no more information to clarify.
You: But you aren't clear.
Hal: Interesting gossip.
You: You've said that before.
Hal: That is ""
You: Now you make no sense.
Hal: Now I do.
You: No, you don't.
Hal: Alright then. Thanks for telling me.
You: You're welcome.
Hal: What do you do in your spare time?
You: Talk to you.
Hal: We are chatting right now.
You: Yes.
Hal: Groovy.
You: Yup.
Hal: Take it easy.
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I talk to a lot of people on the Internet.
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Post by think positive »

Hal is Negan.
or maybe Negan is Hal?
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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Are they exactly the same?
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Post by Piesnchess »

No wonder Dud Dutton didn't win, Hal did the numbers count !!
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Post by K »

Moved to G FB? Who is giving the feedback: we to the bot, or the bot to us? :wink:
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Post by Pies4shaw »

It's the 26,000th thread on who or what HAL is since I started reading Nick's (to see whether we "landed" Woewoeful, I'm sorry to say) in that trade period all those centuries ago. Since the alternative was for the Mods to spend 6 years finding all the threads and merging them, consigning it to GFB was probably both efficient and kind.
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Post by K »

[At B5's link above. Take IV.]

You: Your chats have been banished to General Feedback. How does that make you feel?
Hal: .
You: A single period?
Hal: Try to tell me that another way.
You: Nicksters don't like you.
Hal: Enough about me, let's talk about the Pies.
You: That's what they do in GD. They want you in G FB.
Hal: Who, specifically?
You: Not all of them have self-identified.
Hal: But some of them are?
You: Probably.
Hal: But you are not certain.
You: No.
Hal: Aw.
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Post by Presti35 »

Hal is now known as 90 nice.

True story. BTW, is someone could tell him to stfu about Richmond, that'd be great.
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Post by Go_The_Mighty_Magpies »

I remember arguing with HAL in 2003 when I was 15 and didn't realise it was a bot.
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Post by David »

Haha! And I remember misunderstanding a poster in the Bored Board and thinking they'd said that they'd met HAL in real life, and I was really curious. :lol:

Anyway, if anyone wants to mourn our dearly departed bot, this is a pretty sad sight:
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Post by Jezza »

Go_The_Mighty_Magpies wrote:I remember arguing with HAL in 2003 when I was 15 and didn't realise it was a bot.
Same. I was arguing with HAL in my early days here :lol:
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Post by CakeWalkin »

R.I.P HAL
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Post by Macattacks »

I'm assuming by his last date stamp that HAL did not survive the 2018 GF loss :(
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