# Nominate famous folks to be the templates for the new comfortbot models. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970 "2014-08-06T18:48:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/61 "2014-08-11T17:24:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > No sex with a comfortbot. The naughty bits are all sealed up. These are my rules; I make them up. Okay, but you’re missing a tremendous business opportunity. Given the choice of the no-sex-bot monopoly and the sex-bot monopoly, I know which I’d rather invest in. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/62 "2014-08-11T17:37:38Z")
Novelty trumps eyecandy here. A Michael-Jordanbot please. If I wasn’t confined to historical folks, I’d try and negotiate for an actual transformer and get 2 robots for the price of 1. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/63 "2014-08-11T17:50:51Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Okay, but you’re missing a tremendous business opportunity. Given the choice of the no-sex-bot monopoly and the sex-bot monopoly, I know which I’d rather invest in. Rhymer Enterprises HAS hookerbots. We just keep them distinct from the comfortbots. And if we feel the need for additional capital we’ll just steal it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/64 "2014-08-11T18:21:48Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > No sex with a comfortbot. The naughty bits are all sealed up. These are my rules; I make them up. Yeah, that part I get, but it doesn’t remotely answer my question. And the kidney stones, did you have them, or were you looking for a way to cause other people to get them? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/65 "2014-08-11T19:35:18Z")
Guys, don’t you see how Skald is playing you here? He’s got an enormous overstock of comfortbots because, really, who’s gonna buy a comfortbot when they cost about the same as a hookerbots? That’s why no hookerbots … he can’t build those fast enough to keep up with demand. He’s trying to figure out what he can do to market all those comfortbots that are piled up in warehouses all over the solar system, hoping that giving them a celebrity persona will make up for the inability to get nasty. Not happening, Skald. Either retrofit the comfortbots for sex or write 'em off. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/66 "2014-08-11T19:39:14Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ve been busy with kidney stones, sorry. > > No sex with a comfortbot. The naughty bits are all sealed up. These are my rules; I make them up. I get it. No sex. But can they at least get under the covers with you and cuddle? At least provide emotional comfort if not sexual release. If not, I’ll hire a hacker! ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/67 "2014-08-11T19:50:15Z")
Patricia Tallman If they are not available I could handle an Allyson Hannigan with the “Dark willow” package Thank you ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/68 "2014-08-11T20:17:05Z")
Even if it’s only a comfortbot and not a hookerbot, I would go for [a Michael Fassbender model](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0wLDfhqL8w). At the very least he would mix drinks and we could watch Lawrence of Arabia together. I’ll pass on the “gratuitous homicide” package, though. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/69 "2014-08-11T20:49:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, that part I get, but it doesn’t remotely answer my question. > > And the kidney stones, did you have them, or were you looking for a way to cause other people to get them? I had them. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/70 "2014-08-11T22:56:49Z")
Alyson Hannigan. Fergie. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/71 "2014-08-11T23:22:26Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I had them. That sucks. Better now? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/72 "2014-08-11T23:24:15Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > That sucks. Better now? Pretty much. I’ll probably post something about the hospital stay manana. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/73 "2014-08-12T00:01:12Z")
Comfortbot. Would she rub my back at the end of really bad days & talk me down from anxiety and insecurity? Would she try to get some of my jokes (and actually like them)? Would she listen to me when I want to talk about the wierd dream I just had & would she share hers? Would she drag me away from the PC sometimes by saying things like, “C’mon. Thats just pissing you off. You need to get out of here for a while; we both do. I have your jacket, c’mon… lets go…”? Would she have real conversations with me without guilt-trip bullshit? If so, then I’d be happy to let the Board pick the model, because if she’d do all that and try to get to know me, then what would it matter? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/74 "2014-08-12T00:33:54Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I had them. Damn. Two comfotbots for Mr. Rhymer, stat! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970/75 "2014-08-12T19:57:34Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Comfortbot. > > Would she rub my back at the end of really bad days & talk me down from anxiety and insecurity? Would she try to get some of my jokes (and actually like them)? Would she listen to me > when I want to talk about the wierd dream I just had & would she share hers? Would she drag me away from the PC sometimes by saying things like, “C’mon. Thats just pissing you off. > You need to get out of here for a while; we both do. I have your jacket, c’mon… lets go…”? Would she have real conversations with me without guilt-trip bullshit? > > If so, then I’d be happy to let the Board pick the model, because if she’d do all that and try to get to know me, then what would it matter? Everything but the sharing-of-her-own dream bit. Comfortbots neither sleep nor have REM states, and while you can program them to tell you comforting lies, the default for all non-hookerbots is to always tell the truth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-famous-folks-to-be-the-templates-for-the-new-comfortbot-models/694970.md?page=3)