Could i design a computer program and sign it up for the Straight Dope?

Many times I suspect that posts indicating that one is LOL or ROTFLMAO are not entirely accurate, but LOL is exactly what I did (much to the curiosity of my co-workers) after I read this:

:smiley:

What would be interresting where if you took the entire SDMB database and feed it to something like alicebot (http://www.alicebot.org/) or MegaHAL (http://megahal.sourceforge.net/) and see what you got out of it - interfacing directly with the board would proberly only mean trouble, but manually giving it posts and copy&paste would be doable.

Think about it, a bot with the knowledge of the entire SDMB… :slight_smile:

I can see it now.

Bot #1 posts a new thread.

Bot #2 replies.

Bot #3 responds…

Then we (humans) can all go home and leave the hamsters to the bots. :slight_smile:

Well, Mars Horizon, sometimes ya just gotta pick the low-hanging fruit. Too juicy to pass up…

And you could name it Cecil.

Oh, wait, that’s already been done, back in '73! :slight_smile: