Anonymized quotes III
2020-Jan-20, Monday 13:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Her: "Her name is [Rebe]C-C-A."
Me: "I would have said K-A-H."
Her: "Jew. Sorry, rude."
Both: "But true."
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Him: "You keep kosher?"
Me: "I keep half-assed kosher."
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Me: “There was definitely an element of 'Why would you program a robot to roar like a dinosaur?' "
Her: "because it sounds cool"
Me: "You know, I honestly don't have a counterargument to that"
Her: "clearly neither did they"
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Her: "We met at a Jewish event."
Me: "A holiday."
Him: *looks back and forth between two pale redheads*
Me: "What, can't you tell?"
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Him: "Green Bay is a fine city, sir, I don’t know why you’re getting that reaction."
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Me: "Right--they're pretty much human in every way that matters"
Me: "But they don't breathe, and 'the breath of life' comes up a lot"
Me: "But also"
Me: "It's not like we've had to deal with this before OTHER than golems"
Me: "Since golems aren't self-aware"
Me: "It's not quite the same"
Her: "I think if that were the dividing line, you could make AI bodies that breathe, or at least consume power in a way that can be compared to breathing"
Me: "Now you're thinking like a rabbi 😉"
Her: "You're a bad influence lol"
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Her: "We begin the Holocaust-"
Him: "The Holocaust UNIT."
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Him: "Heading out?"
Me: "Yep. To go see Cats."
Him: "Oh, you don’t look drunk or high enough."
Me: "You can say you knew me when I was sane."
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Him: "Call in sick. Tell them you saw Cats."
Me: "A sickness of the mind. I’m down with the sickness."
[Sadly, he did not follow up with "Oh wah-ah-ah-ah."]
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Me: "The Silmarillion is like, what if the Bible was full of elves murdering each other"
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Him: "Shabbat and chill."
Me: "Aren’t all Shabbats chill?"
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Me: "I lived in Ireland. I know what Irish music sounds like."
Her: "Everyone knows what Irish music sounds like."
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Her: "Riesling, please."
Him: *thick Irish accent* "What's that?"
I'm so glad I've had that icon for years, which has now found its perfect home in this series.