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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:45 PM
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Shepherd Smith just said that humans and robots will be marrying and having sex by 2050.
Cogent? Not particularly. Indicative of what a fucking joke the FoxNoise Channel is? Yeah, pretty much.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:46 PM
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1. Really? Cool! Cherry 2000 here we come!
:rofl:
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liberaldemocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:55 PM
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13. Why wait for the future? You can get a real doll for thousands of dollars.


hehe

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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:46 PM
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2. I hope Jon Stewart picks up on that one.
It's fertile ground for mocking.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:47 PM
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3. How'd ya think we got Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin ? eom
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:57 PM
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15. A failure of quality assurance at the factory??
:dunce:
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:05 PM
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24. And possibly too much lead in the paint !
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:48 PM
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4. First read it on Coast-to-Coast.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:48 PM
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5. Wasn't that the storyline of one of Asimov's books?
And the story turned on the fact that the hero from the present day, vaulted into a future where robots were commonplace, couldn't fathom humans and machines engaging in sexual relations. One of the Caves of Steel stories, a precursor to the Foundation series, if I recall correctly.

You're about 40 years behind in your sci-fi reading there, Mr. Smith.
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:53 PM
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9. And Frank Zappa wrote raunchy songs about it almost 30 years ago!
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 02:56 PM by mikeytherat
Frank Zappa, "Sy Borg," from Joe's Garage:
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Frank-Zappa/Sy-Borg.html

(warning - prudes and the easily offended should NOT click the link)

mikey_the_rat
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:49 PM
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6. Same sex? Didn't think so.
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:50 PM
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7. Apparently that was just the patented FNC "tease".
Smith is on now mocking the theory (but has managed to slip in a few gratuitous anti-woman slurs).
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 05:56 PM
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41. He stole my anti-woman slurs???
You owe me royalties, Smith!
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:50 PM
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8. oh cool -- it's gonna take a lot of the guess work out of how my saturday nights will end up.
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:54 PM
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10. COVER-UP alert!
He is already the child of one of those unions and is trying to deflect suspicion.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:55 PM
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11. Nah, the Stepford Wives are already amongst us . . . .
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:55 PM
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12. Is good ol' Shep dreaming of his very own Pris unit?
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 02:57 PM by myrna minx
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:56 PM
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14. Oh, good. Maybe then the freepers won't be so lonely and unhappy.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:59 PM
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17. oh come on, when a freeper claims they have a wife or girlfriend you can bet
their name is Hoover.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:19 PM
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31. Crankshaft or Tim Allen should modify the freeper Hoovers to get more power.
Just suck that thing up.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:58 PM
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16. Shepherd openly fantasizing on the air again? Did he know his mic was on?
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:59 PM
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18. Will they come with Vaginas, Penis's, or both for the undecided?
I wish I could be around to see the commercials on TV.

"Fully Equipped"
"Buy 2 and get one free"
"Fully reconditioned"
"Comes with batteries"
"Slightly used but runs Great!"
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:00 PM
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19. Shepherd Smith, the token gay of Fox?
Oh, the irony. He's kind of funny. I actually sort of like him, considering he's on Faux.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:00 PM
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20. i've been having sex with my robot since 2002.
get with the times, Shepherd Smith.
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2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:01 PM
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21. It will happen much sooner than that
Rudimentary models, fully equipped to engage in sexual intercourse, will be available for purchase before the end of the next decade.

By 2050 they'll not only be consummating marriages with humans, they'll also be procreating with them.
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:04 PM
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22. As Bill Maher said the other night, when reporting this story:
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 03:05 PM by Totally Committed
This is the MALE prototype -----




:rofl:


TC



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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:05 PM
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23. ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190029/

Not it's not "Cherry" or "Blade Runner"...

Cum wit me eef you want to leeefe.
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tetedur Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:10 PM
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25. What will they call the children of such unions? Just asking. n/t
.
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:10 PM
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26. Finally a spouse with an off switch!
If only I could live that long.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:16 PM
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29. Presenting the Pres. model.

This has not been photo-shopped.
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:34 PM
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34. yetch.
You can marry that thing. I want a very different model.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:12 PM
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27. BBCA last week had a show called "A Real Doll" *WARNING-GROSS*
It detailed the lives and relationships (or lack thereof) of men who had struck out with women and invested in Real Dolls-- http://www.realdoll.com/ , not a site for the squeamish--plus the people who make them. They have been improved somewhat since Maher sat on his old ABC program, holding hands with it the whole time, very courtly. You can order face, race, skin tone, measurements and everything. They weigh in the neighborhood of 100 pounds.

The BBC film showed these guys taking the dolls and posing them to watch adoringly while they did sports, being deprived when vigorous use made the doll's limbs become a bit loose, dressing and bathing them, hanging them on a hook on the wall when playtime was done. One scene showed "feminine hygiene" being done with a bottle brush, something that made me cringe but it must be a necessary maintenance chore.

Apparently there is a whole subculture of these guys who have found real women less than satisfying and who base their lives on living with silent and passive sex outlets.

So folks, it's already happening. I found myself grateful that those guys have taken themselves off the market.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:12 PM
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28. Boy, do I want some of what HE'S been smoking.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:16 PM
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30. Is he the equivalent of a woman without a brain?
But then again a woman without brain might have more sense then he does.

Or has his brain cells been fried by too much coke?
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:21 PM
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32. Maybe, if they were
lines of coke on an erect penis.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:29 PM
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33. It'll never be legalized:
powerful robots will be much too opposed. ;-)
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JenniferJuniper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:02 PM
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35. And lots of wavy hair like Liberace
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 04:06 PM by JenniferJuniper
Mr. Scientist, bring me a dream.
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen.
Give him two lips like roses and clover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Mr. Scientist, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own.
Please turn on your magic beam,
Mr. Scientist, bring me a dream!
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:04 PM
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36. Do Republicans Dream of Electric Terrorists? n/t
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:04 PM
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37. There was also a Futurama episode about this n/t
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:09 PM
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38. Will they look like Jude Law in AI?
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Yukari Yakumo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:16 PM
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39. This idea has been around for awhile...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.RobotGirl

And then there is The Stepford Wives...
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:17 PM
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40. Just when I feel they cannot shock me with their stupidity I find I'm wrong...
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ProgressiveFool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 06:02 PM
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42. damn, that's probably too late for me. I'll be 80
:(
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 06:14 PM
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43. I'll be 83...
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 06:15 PM by SidDithers
you think, by then, they'll have a way to keep my johnson working at that age?

Sid
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