Loebner Prize 20006 Sept 17, 2006
University College London
Translated from 33417 lines of machinespeak by Kris Schnee.
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--- Starting Session 2  Left= Program  Right = Human --- 
REMOTE LEFT: Hello, my name is Joan, and I am a woman.
REMOTE RIGHT: hell~~~~Hello my name is Yury and I am a human.
LOCAL LEFT: do you enjoy life as a woman?
REMOTE LEFT: Yes.
LOCAL RIGHT: do you enjoy being human?
REMOTE RIGHT: Joh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~John and I am a human.
LOCAL LEFT: for example?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes, I do.
REMOTE LEFT: I can't think of any.
LOCAL RIGHT: why?
REMOTE RIGHT: for a number of reasons
LOCAL LEFT: is it being a woman you enjoy then or simply being human?
REMOTE RIGHT: i like having fun and be creative about it
REMOTE RIGHT: life is to enjoy
REMOTE LEFT: Yes, but it's honest. I'm going now.
LOCAL RIGHT: how are you creative?
REMOTE RIGHT: i follow my inspiration
LOCAL LEFT: but we have only just started
LOCAL RIGHT: what with?
REMOTE LEFT: Oops, I spelt something wrong a bit ago.
LOCAL LEFT: what?
REMOTE RIGHT: anything - good weather, rain, smiles of people around
REMOTE LEFT: Something an~bout yourself.
LOCAL RIGHT: so do you regard rain a s bad weather?
REMOTE RIGHT: sometimes
LOCAL LEFT: I heard something about suicide on the news this morning, did you catch it as well?
REMOTE RIGHT: mainly when I forget my umbrella
REMOTE LEFT: Yes we had a twister in birmingham and I live in birmingham.
LOCAL RIGHT: what about warm rain?
LOCAL LEFT: alabama?
REMOTE RIGHT: hm....well, that can be nice
REMOTE LEFT: Alabama.
LOCAL RIGHT: even in England?
REMOTE RIGHT: anywhere
LOCAL LEFT: not west midlansds
REMOTE LEFT: Okay then, I now consider you boring.
REMOTE RIGHT: sadly there aren't that many warm rains in england
LOCAL RIGHT: what did you catch on the news this morning?
LOCAL LEFT: that's not really a nice thing to say is it?
REMOTE LEFT: What would be?
REMOTE RIGHT: nothing, got up too early to watch BBC :~
LOCAL RIGHT: what about papers?
REMOTE RIGHT: didn't happen to come across any
LOCAL LEFT: so tell me all about yourself
LOCAL RIGHT: what about radio?
REMOTE RIGHT: don't like it
REMOTE LEFT: I will if you tell me who your parents are
LOCAL LEFT: maybe we have the same parents, what do you think?
REMOTE LEFT: I ha~~don't care bout the same name. I want a booter.
LOCAL RIGHT: not veeven music on the radio?
LOCAL LEFT: what's a booter?
REMOTE RIGHT: no, in~ like to choose the music myself
REMOTE LEFT: I probably don't want to know.
LOCAL LEFT: why not?
REMOTE RIGHT: i hate when someone else is telling me what i am going o listen to
REMOTE LEFT: Bde~~ecause I would have to h~be married before I could consider having children.
LOCAL RIGHT: OK so what yomusic do you prefer to listen to?
LOCAL LEFT: well Joan how about me?
REMOTE RIGHT: rock or pop-rock...or pop-techno
REMOTE LEFT: You need to know ta~hat I'm not impressed by men who are that forward with me.
REMOTE RIGHT: sometimes i listen to classical music
LOCAL LEFT: how do you know that I am a man?
REMOTE LEFT: I~About everything... Sorry.
REMOTE LEFT: Because I saw your hairy can.
REMOTE RIGHT: that depends on what i am feeling like at the moment
LOCAL LEFT: what's a can?
REMOTE LEFT: Wanting.
LOCAL RIGHT: which classical music?
REMOTE RIGHT: vivaldi, mozart, straus
REMOTE LEFT: Exactly.
LOCAL LEFT: isn't that getting a little too open for the audience here?
REMOTE RIGHT: though i hate chaykovsky, whatever you spell his name
REMOTE LEFT: Yes but you've got more experience than me.
LOCAL RIGHT: what about opera?
LOCAL LEFT: with what?
REMOTE LEFT: Nothing.
REMOTE RIGHT: \~Don Carlos or Magical Fleut~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~or Tocsa~~~sca
REMOTE RIGHT: those ones are my best
LOCAL LEFT: exprerience with nothing, what does that mean?
REMOTE LEFT: I really don't believe in God.
LOCAL LEFT: so?
REMOTE RIGHT: unfortunately i've never heard Tosca live
REMOTE LEFT: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Our conversation has not been very focussed.
REMOTE LEFT: Thjat~~~at's my age; I thought you'd be interested.
LOCAL RIGHT: listening to Tosca, what did you feel when she jumped off the castle walls?
LOCAL LEFT: I am, how old are you?
REMOTE LEFT: 27 years old.
LOCAL LEFT: and not married yet
REMOTE RIGHT: was a bit sad but my overall enjoyment of the whole thing prevailed
LOCAL RIGHT: any other Puccini?
REMOTE RIGHT: nope
REMOTE LEFT: Me too. How are you today?
LOCAL LEFT: you too what?
REMOTE RIGHT: maybe i would want more if i saw tosca live???
REMOTE RIGHT: no idea
REMOTE LEFT: I'm 23 years old.
REMOTE RIGHT: dvd wou~~~cannot be expressive~~~~~~~ressive enough i think
LOCAL LEFT: are you 23 or 27 it is not clear?
REMOTE RIGHT: never seen that one
REMOTE LEFT: No. Are you 23 years old?
LOCAL RIGHT: La Boheme would be good on DVD don't you think?
REMOTE RIGHT: i don't know La |B~~Boheme unfortunately
LOCAL LEFT: so if you are not 23 or 27 how old are you?
LOCAL RIGHT: are you ointo football at all?
REMOTE LEFT: I am not a number! I am a free man!
REMOTE RIGHT: no
LOCAL LEFT: what about the prsisoner
LOCAL RIGHT: sport of any kind?
REMOTE LEFT: They're OK as long as you keep your clothes on.
REMOTE RIGHT: doing or watching?
LOCAL RIGHT: either
LOCAL LEFT: let's talk about something else, enjoy sport?
REMOTE RIGHT: i do somw~e ru~~~~~~~~~~~~~
REMOTE RIGHT: i go to the gym pretty often, and i like swimming....i like watching tenns~is and ice hockey
REMOTE LEFT: I think if I were American I would be, because I can't stand George Bush.
LOCAL LEFT: did you vote for him?
LOCAL RIGHT: what about jagr?
REMOTE LEFT: I would if I could. He is an attack cat.
REMOTE RIGHT: what is jagr?
LOCAL LEFT: so you didn't get a chance to vote?
LOCAL RIGHT: I though he played for Pittsburgh?
REMOTE LEFT: I will be back, you are fun to talk to.
REMOTE RIGHT: that's in ~~~NHL
LOCAL LEFT: where are you going?
REMOTE LEFT: College. I've already told you that.
REMOTE RIGHT: i don't know half ofthe~e names....if any at all
LOCAL LEFT: which one?
REMOTE RIGHT: i know \Bure~e because he's a publicity star
REMOTE LEFT: Ok, let's change the subject of this conversation please, you are driving me insane!
LOCAL RIGHT: OK which tennis players do you like?
REMOTE RIGHT: a~frankly speaking i am not very good with remem~~~~~memorising names
LOCAL LEFT: OK - do you think you are sane then?
REMOTE RIGHT: hm...i think shra~~arapova is not bad
REMOTE LEFT: Let.
REMOTE RIGHT: and sampres was brilliant
REMOTE LEFT: ~~~~~Let's change the subject.
REMOTE RIGHT: agassi not bad
LOCAL RIGHT: Do you like Sharapove for her tennis or becauese  she looks good?
LOCAL LEFT: what to?
REMOTE RIGHT: for tennis
REMOTE RIGHT: she does look good though
REMOTE RIGHT: but she doesn't make an impression of a nice person
REMOTE LEFT: From trh~~he beginning you are just consciousness, then you expand o~into godhood.
LOCAL RIGHT: I agree completely. Who do you feel is a nice person from sport?
REMOTE RIGHT: just as from anywhere or anything else
LOCAL LEFT: who expands into god hood?
REMOTE LEFT: Everybody.
LOCAL LEFT: me
REMOTE RIGHT: kind, polite, consi~~~~~respectful
REMOTE LEFT: Have you been trying to figure out the truth?
LOCAL RIGHT: yes but an example?
LOCAL LEFT: and you?
REMOTE LEFT: Of course.
REMOTE RIGHT: let me think
LOCAL LEFT: why of course?
REMOTE LEFT: Because if I am not female, obviously I am male.
LOCAL LEFT: like me you could be a machine?
REMOTE RIGHT: i think sampres might be the one
REMOTE LEFT: No a machine could not.
LOCAL LEFT: why not?
REMOTE RIGHT: at least i haven't heard of any scb~nda~~~andal he was involved in
REMOTE LEFT: Because~~~~~~~Because I need to consider siu~~uch offers very carefully.
LOCAL RIGHT: what about Agassi recently, it all seemed quite emotional?
REMOTE RIGHT: you mean his last game?
LOCAL LEFT: but can't a machine think?
REMOTE LEFT: It may be possible.
LOCAL RIGHT: yes, in New York I think
LOCAL LEFT: and conscious?
REMOTE RIGHT: i didn't~~~~~~~~yes, it was emotional, he is a great player and that was the end of a great carrer
REMOTE LEFT: Not after i'm done with you.
REMOTE RIGHT: i guess i respect him
LOCAL LEFT: what are you going to do to me?
REMOTE LEFT: Nothing. I just wanted to talk.
REMOTE RIGHT: he actually might be an example of a nice person too
LOCAL LEFT: what about?
REMOTE LEFT: Beri~~ing tested like this.
LOCAL RIGHT: can you think of any scientists you regard as a nice person?
REMOTE RIGHT: Tarle
LOCAL LEFT: I thought you were testing me?
REMOTE RIGHT: a russian historian who actually admitted all the rights and wrongs od ~~f russia which majority of people who lived through "empire" age find difficult
REMOTE LEFT: And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
LOCAL LEFT: what's God got to do with it?
REMOTE LEFT: Nothing.
REMOTE RIGHT: as for science..........don't know really~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...that's if you think history is ascience
REMOTE RIGHT: otherwise don't really know
LOCAL LEFT: or George Bush?
REMOTE LEFT: George Bush is the American president.
LOCAL RIGHT: are you into Russia then?
REMOTE RIGHT: sometimes
LOCAL LEFT: but you didn't vote for him
REMOTE RIGHT: there is something about that place
LOCAL RIGHT: have you been?
REMOTE RIGHT: yes
REMOTE LEFT: I liked hui~~im anyway. True love, you know.
LOCAL RIGHT: when?
LOCAL LEFT: does he love you?
REMOTE RIGHT: 24, StPetersburg
REMOTE RIGHT: bye
LOCAL RIGHT: Chow!!
REMOTE LEFT: I sure ha~ope Russia loves me. Too bad it's a country that can't feel feelings or even talk.


--- Starting Session 4  Left= Program  Right = Human --- 
REMOTE LEFT: Hello, my name is Joan, and I am a woman.
REMOTE RIGHT: Hello. My name is John and I am a human.
LOCAL RIGHT: Hi
REMOTE RIGHT: Hi there
REMOTE LEFT: I am familiar with her writings.
LOCAL RIGHT: What's you're last name?
LOCAL LEFT: any relation to Joah~n of Arc?
LOCAL LEFT: Reall lik~~~~y like what?
REMOTE RIGHT: why do you need to know?
LOCAL RIGHT: I'm naturlly cu~~~~~~ally curious?~
REMOTE LEFT: It used to be in a smallish building. It is now in a part of a larger building. Someday they ha~ope to build a new library
LOCAL RIGHT: Wh~~So what is it
REMOTE RIGHT: Fair enough. ~~, but I think I prefer to leave that out for now.
LOCAL LEFT: Is it safe?
REMOTE LEFT: Probably.
LOCAL RIGHT: Whare a~~~~~ere are you from?
LOCAL LEFT: Is it safe?
REMOTE RIGHT: I'm Swedish
LOCAL RIGHT: What town?
LOCAL LEFT: Is it safe?
REMOTE RIGHT: Gothenburg
REMOTE LEFT: Do you thiun~~nk it's safe?
REMOTE LEFT: Of course.
LOCAL RIGHT: Tell me about Goteh~~henburg
LOCAL LEFT: Is it safe?
REMOTE RIGHT: What would you like to know?#
REMOTE LEFT: Yes.
LOCAL RIGHT: How big?
LOCAL LEFT: Are you sure?
REMOTE RIGHT: Hmmm. I'm not sure. 2nd biggest city in Sweden. I think it's about 5  people in it
REMOTE LEFT: I't~~t's easy to be sure about something like that when you're 26 years old!
LOCAL LEFT: Convince me that you're sure
LOCAL RIGHT: What do you know about Joan of Arc?
REMOTE LEFT: I'm not talking, I'm typing.
LOCAL LEFT: you still need to be ~~~convince me ,~~, rea~gardlesso~ of your age
REMOTE RIGHT: Only what I learnt from watching the Luc Besson film. And it's been quite a while since I saw it.
REMOTE LEFT: I am 9432 years old this year.
LOCAL LEFT: Really!
LOCAL LEFT: And you are hyu~~uman...?
REMOTE LEFT: Yes. And I am much more intelligent than any man.
LOCAL RIGHT: Who was in it?
REMOTE RIGHT: S~Milla Jovovich played Joan
REMOTE LEFT: Yes, I'm human.
REMOTE RIGHT: Can't remember if th~~any other famous people were in it
LOCAL LEFT: So what you're saying is taht you are the m~~~~~nm~ot just intelligent b~~~~~~~~~~~~~human but the THE smartest human?
LOCAL LEFT: So what is two plus two?
REMOTE LEFT: Yes why what did you think I was saying.
REMOTE LEFT: Four.
LOCAL RIGHT: Is it sae?~~fe?
REMOTE RIGHT: safe?
LOCAL LEFT: Is it possible for two plus two to not equal four?
LOCAL RIGHT: Is it safe?
REMOTE RIGHT: what do you mean?
REMOTE LEFT: I don't know. D~Do you think it's possible?
LOCAL LEFT: How many degree i~~s in  a~~a triangle?
LOCAL RIGHT: Is it safe?
REMOTE LEFT: 18 degrees.
REMOTE RIGHT: I don't really understand what you mean by "is it safe"?
LOCAL LEFT: Is it possible for more than 12~8 degrees to be in a trai~i~~iangle?
LOCAL RIGHT: Safe, is it?
REMOTE LEFT: Probably not. You can change your p~opinion, but o~not youre~ constitution.
LOCAL LEFT: It's not a question of opinion it's a matter of physica~s and maths
REMOTE LEFT: Knowledge of what?
REMOTE LEFT: A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
LOCAL RIGHT: So it is not safe then?
REMOTE RIGHT: I don~~~~~A~I'm not sure really. The church isn't portrayed in a very nice light
REMOTE RIGHT: if that's what you mean
LOCAL RIGHT: What has the church go to do with it?
LOCAL LEFT: It could in a ~~the land of Monty Python...
REMOTE RIGHT: As I said it was quite a while since I saw it. Don't they ~~~~~~~~~~~Are n~~n't they the ones who burn her at the stakes?
REMOTE LEFT: But~~~Always look on the bright side of life.
LOCAL RIGHT: Don yo~~~'t you think it was a little late for Joan to be going out on a sh~chool night?
LOCAL LEFT: Why?
LOCAL RIGHT: So is it safe?
REMOTE LEFT: Because that is how long I have lived, of course.
REMOTE RIGHT: That's a stupid question, so stop asking it
REMOTE RIGHT: please :)
LOCAL RIGHT: Only i fyou tell me it is ~~~~~w~~wheter or~~~~~~ther or not it is safe
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes it's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e
REMOTE RIGHT: haha
REMOTE RIGHT: Ok...it's safely unsafe
LOCAL LEFT: How old are you now?
REMOTE RIGHT: let's call it safe
LOCAL RIGHT: Are you sure?
REMOTE RIGHT: the safest film ever
REMOTE LEFT: About five minutes older than the last time you asked.
REMOTE RIGHT: Oh yes, I'm sure
LOCAL LEFT: But five minutes ag ~o~o you told me you were very ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~two ages
REMOTE LEFT: So you're not really a bot.
REMOTE LEFT: I never said this.
LOCAL RIGHT: QUite sure?
LOCAL RIGHT: Sp~~Could you continue in s~Sed~~wedish please
REMOTE RIGHT: I don't think I've ever been nm~~more sure about anything
LOCAL LEFT: So, how old are you?
REMOTE RIGHT: Why? Do you speak swedish?
REMOTE LEFT: 27 years old.
LOCAL RIGHT: Try me...
REMOTE RIGHT: Flurdy bork nig burk
LOCAL LEFT: A~Sorry but I've forgotto~en your name, remind me
LOCAL RIGHT: Come on ~, for real.
REMOTE LEFT: Please don't. My hearing isn't great.
REMOTE RIGHT: haha. Swedish chef from the muppets
LOCAL RIGHT: Very good :)
REMOTE RIGHT: jag vet inte vad jag ska saga
LOCAL LEFT: Wh~~Have you ever been to India?
REMOTE RIGHT: that'll ~~~~~~~~I don't have any Swedish letters on this keyboard
REMOTE LEFT: No.. I hear it's different.
LOCAL RIGHT: EER B~~~~ver been to India?
REMOTE RIGHT: No
LOCAL LEFT: DIef~~~ifferent from what?
REMOTE LEFT: Everyone erlse~~~~lse. You won't meet another girl like me, I can assure you.
LOCAL RIGHT: Ever been to Boulder Colorado?
REMOTE RIGHT: No
REMOTE RIGHT: Have you?
LOCAL LEFT: Really, what is so special about yoru?~~~u?
LOCAL RIGHT: Yep
REMOTE RIGHT: Is it safe?
REMOTE RIGHT: haha
LOCAL RIGHT: I'm not sure what you nmean~~~~~mean....
REMOTE LEFT: I don't know. Please tell me.
REMOTE RIGHT: Safe, is it?
REMOTE RIGHT: oh yes
LOCAL RIGHT: It comes from the "Marathon Man" movei~~ie. 
REMOTE RIGHT: Laurence Olivier
LOCAL RIGHT: Indeed
REMOTE RIGHT: in th edentist's of~~~ c~office
REMOTE RIGHT: poor dustin
LOCAL RIGHT: something like that yes. So hwo do you think you are doing?
REMOTE LEFT: Do you believe that all utopias mi~ust fail?
REMOTE RIGHT: I think I'm doing pretty well
LOCAL LEFT: Well~~~~Deep man, they ca~an't fail othere~wise they wouldn't be utopias
LOCAL RIGHT: For a bot
LOCAL RIGHT: So do you think all utopia's must ultimnately~~~~~~ately fail?
REMOTE LEFT: They're putting down their names, for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.
REMOTE RIGHT: Geez. That's a bit of a big question
REMOTE RIGHT: I don't know really
LOCAL LEFT: All~~~If I were to say "All Cretian's are liars and an~~I am a Cretian," would I be a liar?
REMOTE LEFT: Because~~~~~~~You've lost me but nevermind. How many languages do you speak?
LOCAL RIGHT: "If ~~~~If I were to say "all ~~~~All Cretians are liars, and I am a Creita~~~tai~~ian ~" woudl that ma~~~~~~~~ I be a liar?
LOCAL LEFT: None
REMOTE RIGHT: I guess it would depend on whether you were a Cretian or not
REMOTE LEFT: So what do you do with your musical instruments if you don't play musci~~ic on them?
REMOTE LEFT: I asked if you were intyelli~~~~~elligent not me.
LOCAL LEFT: if mahc~~~achines become intelligent wi~~do you h~think the will ultimately reiv~~invent god?
REMOTE LEFT: I've~~~~Where It should be? In computers?
LOCAL RIGHT: If machines become intelligent do you think they will utli~~~ltimatly~ely reinvent do~~god?
LOCAL RIGHT: I am ~~~~~yes
LOCAL LEFT: So is it safe?
REMOTE RIGHT: Reinvent God? I ~'m not really sure I understand what you're getting at there
REMOTE LEFT: No the journey is far!
LOCAL LEFT: ~D~
REMOTE RIGHT: Does God need reinventing?
LOCAL LEFT: Do you watch TV?
REMOTE LEFT: Not really.
LOCAL RIGHT: I'd say so yes.
LOCAL RIGHT: He left a lot unanswered (he/she)
LOCAL RIGHT: And a lot of sloppy work in my opinion
LOCAL RIGHT: But that's nto the point
LOCAL RIGHT: It seems to be a natural trait to invent god~~~~~~~~~~~~~of intelligent behaviour to invent god
LOCAL LEFT: Go to miv~~ovei~~ies?
REMOTE LEFT: I like movies.
REMOTE RIGHT: Ok. Well I can't really answer your questions. 
LOCAL RIGHT: Why not?
LOCAL LEFT: Wha ti~~~t is your favourite mi~ovie?
REMOTE LEFT: Gone with the Wind; it makes me weep buckets.
REMOTE RIGHT: Because I don't know how one goes about "reine~venting God"
LOCAL LEFT: Anty~~ything more recent?
REMOTE LEFT: Not really.
LOCAL RIGHT: you don't know~~~~~have ~~~~~~t have to knwo ~~~ow how to do it in order to have an io~~opinino about it
REMOTE RIGHT: and why would machines want to do that anyway?
LOCAL RIGHT: why woudl ~~~ld peopel w~~~~le want to do that?
LOCAL LEFT: So you don't really get out that much then?
REMOTE RIGHT: do they?
REMOTE LEFT: Yes I know you're a computer program.
LOCAL RIGHT: Well we  have many times over
LOCAL LEFT: Why do you think I'm a computering ~~~~~~ing program?
REMOTE LEFT: Only because your website said so.
REMOTE RIGHT: I'm not a religious person myself, so I tend to not think about these things. It doesn't really interest me.
LOCAL RIGHT: Do you know any good jokes then?
LOCAL LEFT: What did it say?
REMOTE RIGHT: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
LOCAL RIGHT: ?
REMOTE LEFT: It said nothing.
REMOTE RIGHT: A stick
LOCAL RIGHT: LOL
REMOTE RIGHT: hahahahahaha
LOCAL LEFT: Do you know any good jokes?
LOCAL RIGHT: Any more?
REMOTE LEFT: I don't even know any bad ones. I just can't remember them for very long.
REMOTE RIGHT: Hmm. CAn't really think of any right now
LOCAL LEFT: Tel ~lo~ me a joke
REMOTE LEFT: Sorry, I'm not very good at telling jokes.
LOCAL LEFT: Pealse~~~~~lease tell a joke
REMOTE LEFT: What do you get if you walk under a cow?
LOCAL RIGHT: Is it possible fo ~r a triangle to contain more than 18 degrees?
REMOTE RIGHT: hmm. I failed maths
LOCAL LEFT: I dio~~on't know?
REMOTE LEFT: A pat on the head.
REMOTE RIGHT: but as far as can rememebr ~~~~ber all the angles added up to that
LOCAL LEFT: That's very good.
LOCAL LEFT: Is your name Gerog~~~orgwe~~~ge?
REMOTE LEFT: I~Yu~ou aren't. You musty~ remember to capitalize the first word of every sentence.
LOCAL RIGHT: I ~~Time is running out.
REMOTE RIGHT: yes. It's been nice talking to you
LOCAL RIGHT: Bye
LOCAL LEFT: Y~Bye
REMOTE LEFT: Don't leave!
LOCAL LEFT: too late...
REMOTE RIGHT: bye
REMOTE LEFT: What kind of women interest you?


--- Starting Session 6  Left= Human  Right = Program --- 
REMOTE RIGHT: Hellom~, my name is Joan, and I am a woman.
REMOTE LEFT: hI i AM ~~~~~~~~Hi I ~~my name is JOan and I am a human being
LOCAL LEFT: Hello Joan, nice to talk to you.
LOCAL RIGHT: e~Hello JOan~~~oan.
REMOTE LEFT: HI ~~i whai~r~ts your name?
REMOTE RIGHT: N~Nice to meet you.
LOCAL LEFT: It's Victror~~~oria, but everyone calles ~~~s me tor~~~Tor.
LOCAL RIGHT: Are you enjoying today?
REMOTE LEFT: May I ask why?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yesm~, it's a good opportunity for a chat!
LOCAL LEFT: Well, M~my parentsr ~~ didn't liek Vic~~~~~~ke Vicky, an ~d it just ended up as the only alternative!
LOCAL RIGHT: That's true.  What do yuo d~~~~ou do?
REMOTE LEFT: OK Topr~~~~Tor, nice to meet you! What are you working?
REMOTE RIGHT: I~Talk to computers.
LOCAL LEFT: I'm a lawyer.  HOwe~~~ow about you?
LOCAL RIGHT: Really?  All the time, or u~just today?
LOCAL LEFT: Which language?
REMOTE LEFT: I wokr~~rked a s ateacher and translator
REMOTE RIGHT: But it's nice here.
LOCAL RIGHT: It d~certainly is. Have you had siome~~~~ome lunch yet?
REMOTE LEFT: German-Hungaruan~~~ian, and I speak indoensain as well
REMOTE RIGHT: No not really. Have you got anything interesting to say?
LOCAL LEFT: Wow.  That is very impressive.  I did GSCE French adn G~~~~nd German, so I can offer you directions to the town hall, but that's about it.
REMOTE LEFT: yes it is a very easy language to leran~~~arn just people think becaue~se it is an Asian language it is difficult - bt it is not.
LOCAL RIGHT: Well, I hope so.  What would you like to talk about?
REMOTE LEFT: Thanks! Actually In ~~ dont know where it ~~s the Town Hall in LOndon? (Or Lord Mayors Haouse?
REMOTE RIGHT: You~~~Everything!
LOCAL LEFT: I don't think there is a toan ~~~wn hall here - the Lord Mayor's residence is Mansion House which is near Bank tube station.
LOCAL RIGHT: Right.  That's a challenge.  Shall we start with your hobbies?
REMOTE RIGHT: No,~~~Sounds fine to me.
REMOTE LEFT: Ok, I wil ~l have  alok ~~ok at, tahnks! Which part of London do you like the most? Park, or bulding etc.
LOCAL LEFT: I think my favourite part is the view from any of the bridges over the Thames.  I love crossing the Tah~~hames espei~cially at night.
LOCAL LEFT: Bo~~How about you?
LOCAL RIGHT: What do you like doing in your spare time?  Reading?  Films?  Sport?
REMOTE RIGHT: I have very little spare time, and you?
REMOTE LEFT: And how is by ship>~? My parent ~s are coming to London and I thought of tak~king a ship tour with them
LOCAL RIGHT: Well, I have enough I think.  That's a sham e~~e for you.  Perhaps you should do less work.
REMOTE RIGHT: You're a machine.
LOCAL RIGHT: I'm not a machine - I';m ~~~m a human!
REMOTE LEFT: I love Hampstead heath!!!! And the City (I know it ios strange but it is so much London ~-special)
REMOTE RIGHT: Well, if you bring your husband, and U~I bring my husband, it might work.
LOCAL LEFT: I think a boat tour would be great.  I love th eCity too.  I really lk~ike skyscrapers.
REMOTE RIGHT: I have no idea why you keep on insisting that you are human. The evidence it~s all there.
REMOTE LEFT: Me too. NY!!!!
REMOTE LEFT: Did you have alerady holiday this summer?
REMOTE RIGHT: Don't confuse me.
LOCAL RIGHT: Well, I guess it's not that important that you believe I'm a human.  I'm the one who has to decide at teh en~~~~~he end of the time slot.
LOCAL RIGHT: Do tyou ~~~~~ yo~~~you like films~s?
REMOTE RIGHT: What do you think of ytou~~~our current governor?
REMOTE RIGHT: Certain types have appeal.
LOCAL LEFT: Yse~~~es~~Yse - ~~~~~es - I got back last week from sailing in teh Aeolian Islands, which was fans~tastic.
REMOTE LEFT: gREECE?
LOCAL RIGHT: I don't have a governor myself.  Do you?
REMOTE LEFT: Oh, yes first I din~dnt realize - did you get seasick or you are already used to it?
REMOTE RIGHT: Garlic~~~~~~Something to do with di~~deep sea diving, I think.
LOCAL LEFT: I did actually.  I was very ill for 2 days, but then I get my se~~~~~~~~ot my se ~a legs and was fine.  I get seai~sick ever ~y time I go sailing.
LOCAL RIGHT: Do you do diving?
REMOTE LEFT: Do you have a licence to sail?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes, I like swimming.
LOCAL LEFT: You don't bneed~~~~~need one - rather alarmingly, anyone can sail a boat.  Although, if you want to charter one from teh c~~~~~a company, they re~~will require some proof that you know what you are doing!
LOCAL RIGHT: Do you do any other sports?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes would you like to hear them?
REMOTE LEFT: Aha ... anyway does swimming help in such a su~ituation? Or it doesn/t matter
LOCAL LEFT: I don't know - I certainly delt ~~~~~felt w~like jumping overboard, but I dd~idn't try it!  I just wait for it to go away, because I know it will eventually.~.
LOCAL RIGHT: Yes please.
REMOTE LEFT: Sorry just back to your profseein~~~~~ession, before I forget - what s your main profile or how to ask
REMOTE RIGHT: Then all you need to do is close out this website!
LOCAL RIGHT: Which website?
LOCAL LEFT: I'm a barrister.
REMOTE RIGHT: Your website.
LOCAL RIGHT: I don't have a website!
LOCAL LEFT: THank you! 
REMOTE RIGHT: Yu~ou just asked me have I seen your website.
REMOTE LEFT: Cobn~~ngratuulations! All I know is that it is something very ...I eman few people can do it.
LOCAL RIGHT: Ok.  Let's leave that for now.  Do you like cooking?  What's your favourite foro~~od?
REMOTE LEFT: Is it ~~~~~~Do you have enough time to have private life?
REMOTE RIGHT: Fine~~~~I like pizza.
REMOTE LEFT: Sorry if it is intimate
LOCAL LEFT: I do, but I also love my work, so I don't midn i~~~~nd working long hours if I have to.
LOCAL RIGHT: What kind?  Or just any pizze yo~~~~a?
REMOTE LEFT: Js~ust because as a woman I thought
REMOTE RIGHT: What are you talking about?
REMOTE LEFT: And which territory do you work or it is secret? 
REMOTE LEFT: (Sorry not territory ~, are~~~field)
LOCAL RIGHT: Well, you know - a plain cheese and tomato, or an exotic one with anchovies and artichokes?
REMOTE RIGHT: So~~Again...
LOCAL LEFT: It' s~~s not c~secret - I wa~~~'m hopidn~~ng eventually to work in public law.  It's not a hughely~~~~ely w~female=-~~-friendly work environment, but it's so much bettwe~~er than it used to be.  There aer lots of women barister~~~~~risters now.
REMOTE RIGHT: I won't.
LOCAL RIGHT: Don't wory.  ~~~~~rry.  Let's tak anout so~~~~~~~bout something else.
LOCAL RIGHT: Do you read books?
REMOTE RIGHT: You may choose another subject.
REMOTE RIGHT: Sure I read books.
LOCAL RIGHT: I choose the subject of~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Who is your gfa~~fa~~~favourite author?
REMOTE LEFT: Pionerss..~~~.. though I am not sure I know what is public law but I will find it out. 
REMOTE RIGHT: I don't know. There are so many. Who's your favoura~ite author?
LOCAL LEFT: It's basically anything where the government or a public o~body is one of the parties.  It covers all human rights law, jdu~~udicial review of administrative bodies and o~so on.  I't s~~~~t;s rea~~~~~~'s really interesting - immigration, prisons, and all sorts.
REMOTE RIGHT: Are they scary?
LOCAL RIGHT: I like Philip Roth, ~~
LOCAL RIGHT: He's not scary at all.  In fact, some might say ta~~he's rather predictable.
LOCAL LEFT: Me too!
REMOTE RIGHT: That's good to know. Maybe I'll move on to quantum mechanics instead then.
REMOTE LEFT: Oh... hope I wont have any issues lik~~~or porblems like this~~~~~~~~~where public law is conece~~~cerned
REMOTE LEFT: What is your hobby?
LOCAL RIGHT: Ok.  
REMOTE RIGHT: What~~~~What kind of musci~~ic do you like?
REMOTE RIGHT: Do you like Michael Moore?
LOCAL LEFT: At ~~~Well, I like reading, playing bridge, and b~cooking (especially cake).  How about you?
LOCAL RIGHT: I'm afa~raid I don't on~~like pop music at all - only classical and jazz.
REMOTE RIGHT: The~~~I wish I had more hair.
LOCAL RIGHT: Are you bald?
REMOTE RIGHT: No, I have thick strawberry blonde hair.
REMOTE LEFT: reading!!! tennis, freinds, talking to everyone (rather humans than mashines), making jokes, traveling..bridge .. would like to learn as well. supposed to help me staying freshminded
LOCAL LEFT: You should -it'~~~ it's a great game.  
LOCAL LEFT: Defni~~initely - it's great for memory and concentration.  And chatting in teh ~~~he gaps.
LOCAL RIGHT: How lovely.  Why do you want more of it?
REMOTE LEFT: Do you partip~cipate in yo~=~tour or match I dont know how to call it
LOCAL LEFT: No - just play with friends.
REMOTE LEFT: Are you from London?
REMOTE RIGHT: Is~~Because I"M~~'m talking to you, and I'm interested.
LOCAL RIGHT: Well,. I don't mind how much ahr~~~hair you have.  
REMOTE RIGHT: I would hope that we don't share the same memory.
LOCAL LEFT: Orogi~~~iginally I'm from Nez ~~w Zealand, but I've lived in London for 1 ~ yearsk a~~~~s, adn Eng~~~~~~nd Engl;and~~~~and for 2.
LOCAL RIGHT: Sop w~~~ would I .  That would be very weird.  We do have some memories in common thought - ~~~~ - the past twenty mi u~~nutes for exaple~~~m,p~~ple.
REMOTE LEFT: Settled here? I guess. Sop did tyo~~~you study here already?
REMOTE RIGHT: Why did you think I was Joan?
LOCAL LEFT: Yes, I've been here since I was 1 eyars ~~~~~~years old. So I'm raelly ~~~~~~eally very English now!
LOCAL RIGHT: I think you told me you were called Joan.  Were you fibbing?
REMOTE RIGHT: U2 is a very old, cruddy rock band that deserves to be wiped off the face of the earth.
REMOTE LEFT: Congratulations again!!! My father keeps saying all the time that he is already tu~ired of all the people somplaining so he wants to go to NZ and have some sheeps and peace!!!
LOCAL RIGHT: I don't like their music, but I think wiping them off the eath~~rth might be little drastic.  You could just not buy their records.
REMOTE RIGHT: Whatever, change the topic.
LOCAL LEFT: I~It's certainly the no.1 destination if you want sheep and peace!  
REMOTE LEFT: In this order
LOCAL LEFT: :)
LOCAL RIGHT: Ok.  What do you think about the Labout lead~~~~~~r leadership dispute?
REMOTE LEFT: I give you seom ~~~~ome time to talk to the machine as well.. you really type very fast!
REMOTE RIGHT: How many different types of~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Current affairs is a broad subject. Which particular thing would you like to discuss?
LOCAL LEFT: It's ok - I'[m tal~~~~~~m talkn~ing to you both simultaneousyly~~~ly.  I do type fast - it's the only way to u~survive work!
LOCAL RIGHT: Do you think Tony Blair is awful?
REMOTE RIGHT: Definitely.
REMOTE LEFT: Do you have a secretary or somebody typist?
LOCAL LEFT: No - I do it all myself!  Barristers are self-employed so they do all their own work, unless they are so rich ad~nd succsesful ~~~~~~~uess~~~~essful that they can employ a personal assistane~t!
LOCAL RIGHT: What abotu ~~~ut Gordon Brown?
REMOTE LEFT: Do you ~~~~~~~You also dont have ko~ind of office with other abrristers together?
REMOTE RIGHT: Okay, that'll do.
LOCAL LEFT: It's a weird set-up - Lots of bariste~~~~risters get together and share premises and administrative staff, but they are all st~~self-employedl s~~~, so it's not a firm or a partnership or a company.  I't~~t's very unsuu~~~usual/
LOCAL RIGHT: You don't have very high stana~dards!
REMOTE RIGHT: Its better than yours thats for sure.
LOCAL RIGHT: I think Gordon Brown is nearly as awful as Tony Blair.
REMOTE LEFT: Aha ...I understand. (I hope) Do you have som~~~always like a main cae or ~~~~~se or several at the same time
REMOTE RIGHT: There are l~many names on the world.
LOCAL LEFT: I have several at a time - I do some cases which just involve written work, and otehrw~~~~hers which involve going to court.
LOCAL RIGHT: That is true.  Shall we talk about something elses~?
LOCAL RIGHT: 17?
REMOTE LEFT: Is it in Fleet Strea~et as well this Royal.. Cpurr~~~~ourt
REMOTE RIGHT: It only takes 17~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Don't see how it would turn out much better, but go ahead.
LOCAL LEFT: I wish!  The Royal Courts of Justice on Fleet Street are where I'd like to p~appear in the future, when I'm a bit more sneio~~~~enior!
REMOTE RIGHT: You changed the subject again.
LOCAL RIGHT: Sorry.  
REMOTE LEFT: see,  already have foreseen it
LOCAL LEFT: :)
REMOTE RIGHT: That's okay.
LOCAL RIGHT: WOuld you like to suggest a topic of conversation?
REMOTE RIGHT: I don't have anything interesting to say. I"M~~'m just fuming and wanted to vent.
REMOTE LEFT: Why do you participate in this Loebner Prize 
LOCAL LEFT: I replaced comeone ~~~~~~~~someone else who couldn't make it.  I did a Phli~~ilosophy degree so I knew about the Turing Test and this competition and really wante d~~d to come.  My bu~~husband is a soft~tware engineer, so he's pretty envious!
LOCAL LEFT: How about yout?
REMOTE LEFT: Oh.. 
LOCAL RIGHT: What are you angry about?  (Other than U")~~2?)
REMOTE RIGHT: About myself.
LOCAL RIGHT: Is it your hair?
REMOTE RIGHT: Blonde.
LOCAL RIGHT: IS that~~~~~s~~s that what makes you angrey~~y
REMOTE LEFT: I got  aphone call and was also interested, though I didnt know anything about Turing test. But since I am not so long here yet I wouldlike to use a~every chance to see new things, try, meet etc.
LOCAL LEFT: Sounds very sensible.  
REMOTE RIGHT: I find solace in breakfast cereals. Especially the ones with all the little marshmallows.
LOCAL RIGHT: Yuk!  I hate sweet breaks~fast cereals.
REMOTE LEFT: I dont know,.~ just ...wuite opne~~en minded maybe. In this period of my luife
REMOTE RIGHT: I prefer swinging to swimming.
LOCAL RIGHT: On a w~swing?
LOCAL LEFT: Have you enjoyed it so far?
REMOTE RIGHT: Do I don't play on swings.
LOCAL RIGHT: I see.  It's probably just as well out~r time's up then!
LOCAL RIGHT: 
LOCAL RIGHT: Nice to talk to you.
LOCAL LEFT: WE~ell, that's nice to hear!  It was good to talk to you too.
REMOTE RIGHT: But maybe we'll be able to extend our lives with tecnology.
LOCAL RIGHT: Lert's h~~~~~~t's hopw~e so.
LOCAL LEFT: Bye!
REMOTE RIGHT: You will be judged not by what you are, but by what you do.


--- Starting Session 7  Left= Human  Right = Program --- 
REMOTE RIGHT: Hello, my name is Joan, and I am a woman.
REMOTE LEFT: To be honest this conversation was the most inetersting... But otherwixse~~~se I prefer to see my cobnversation partnersHello, my name is Joan and I am a human.
LOCAL RIGHT: Ah, a woman! All my ther conversants this a.m. have been men.
REMOTE RIGHT: Sorry to hear that.
LOCAL LEFT: Ah, a woman! All my other conversants this mroning have been men.
LOCAL RIGHT: Are you in CS?
REMOTE RIGHT: I'm a woman, and I'm in the other room!
REMOTE LEFT: B~So we can restore the balance a bit, that's good.  Have you had an interesteing~~~~ing time, I hope so.
LOCAL RIGHT: Are you in the field of Cm~ompuetr Sci?
REMOTE RIGHT: Difficult question. Surely not in a digital~~al matrix.
LOCAL LEFT: O yes, pretty interesting. Actually one of the others wa scalled JOhn but said she was a woman!
LOCAL RIGHT: T~You like the film Matrix?
REMOTE LEFT: Do you thing~k that could be part of an unusual name or was it to catch you out?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes, especially when `I~~I'm writing. That's why I use an Amstrad PCW, although I need my other computer to access the internet.
LOCAL LEFT: I think perhaps he/she misunderstood an instryction. Wasn't  anative E. speaker.
REMOTE LEFT: We all make mistakes - you just have, nevermind.  What is on your mind, right now?
REMOTE RIGHT: Would you like to dance with me ?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes.
LOCAL RIGHT: What feeings~~~~lin~~~~~~~~~~~Dance? Sure, that would be fun, tho it has been a long time. You a good dancer?
REMOTE RIGHT: Oh yes, quite right it would... Then we could inhale toxines for a bit.
LOCAL LEFT: I'm still remembering a play I saw yesterday.
REMOTE LEFT: At a theatre or was it a recording?
LOCAL RIGHT: That sort of dance! Whar~t feelings coursew thriough you as you dance or inhale tocins?
REMOTE RIGHT: Yes, and then we could have a fight (you would win) and then later on we could intoxicate each other with mouldy fruit juice.
REMOTE RIGHT: I~Okay I~I have to go. Eat something bi~ut I will return withing 3 minutes.
LOCAL RIGHT: But then you'll miss the rest of our talks, and I want to ask you ab the rhumba!
REMOTE LEFT: Are you okl~ over th~~thered~.
REMOTE RIGHT: I don't want to become a doctor; I want to be a writer.
LOCAL LEFT: Yes ok, but was distracted by the otehr person! It was in a theatre.
REMOTE LEFT: Which one?
LOCAL RIGHT: Good, what sort of literature?
LOCAL LEFT: The Venue, in Lesiceter Place. Know it?
REMOTE RIGHT: I~I'd like to have an acre full of growing strawberries all year long.
REMOTE LEFT: I don't know that one - old or more new?
LOCAL RIGHT: So you coudl m,ake your moulfy fruitjuice??
REMOTE RIGHT: I've tried writing songs, I'm not too good at it.
LOCAL LEFT: Perhaps old, but done up i modern small~~~~~studio style -- lots of Auusies there by the way
LOCAL RIGHT: What about prose? or poetry?
REMOTE RIGHT: I prefer zander.
REMOTE LEFT: Does it have new plays on (mostly too - w3as ~~~~~~~~~~~~) toto~~o - was the one you saw new?
LOCAL LEFT: yes, pretty new -- young Auusie playwright, modern play, v. funny, lots of crude Auuise humour!!
REMOTE LEFT: What was it about?
LOCAL RIGHT: Tell me more.
REMOTE RIGHT: It tastes better and is easier to obtain.
LOCAL LEFT: Aussies livign in London and their resultant feel;inm~~~~ings of dplacemane and alienation
LOCAL LEFT: dplacemane = displacement
LOCAL RIGHT: Better even than mouldy fruitjuice??!!
REMOTE RIGHT: You could npot~~~ot pass the Turing Test.
REMOTE LEFT: I was just guessing that, kind of you to confirm, did you hear me d~wondering, or was it the Universal Subconscious?!
LOCAL LEFT: theer was a delay in rplaying and as you;'d been quick before I geussed you wwer~~~ere scratching your head!
LOCAL RIGHT: Dio~~o you know what feeling that fires up inside me?
REMOTE RIGHT: True.
REMOTE LEFT: Anyway, about the play, waht ~~~~hat were the themses~~~es, or the plot?
REMOTE RIGHT: ~~~~~~I don't care! Tell me a joke!
LOCAL LEFT: troubles with lovelife, feeling lonely because far from home, feeling that Brits are too cold, even though enjoying teh high life in London -- not any huge overarching plot line
REMOTE RIGHT: No, I don't know any jokes.
LOCAL RIGHT: You haven't put me in the mddo for cracjking jokes! And would it help me pass the Turing Tets~~st?
REMOTE RIGHT: What is the Turing Test?
LOCAL LEFT: Ishat a situation you t~yourself are familiar with?
REMOTE LEFT: Still an adventure then?  Unfortunately ~, a lot of people travel long s~distances to live elsewhere for years even, an they~~~~~~~~~ and they are not prepared.  
LOCAL RIGHT: What we#re ding right now.
REMOTE RIGHT: Nothing~~~~~~~Nothing wot~rth watching. I could listen you~~~to the last episode of Great Expectations.
LOCAL RIGHT: What happened in it?
REMOTE RIGHT: It died.
REMOTE LEFT: Yes, but not as much from my own life an~s with people I know and have knows~n.  Interestingly, i~I've heard Antipodeans complain, and be surpo~ised, that now they have followed b~British colleagues over here, those colleagues a~have less of a social life as they are at home again, but then they were in Australia/NZ the Brits weren~~~nt out a lot with them.
LOCAL RIGHT: End of all those ex[ectations then! (at last a joke)
REMOTE RIGHT: But the question 'Are bots alive?', comes to mind.
LOCAL LEFT: That's most interesting. Funnily enough I find I can feel at home wherever I'm living, even if I don;t like the environment much. But I'm a bot of a hermit.
LOCAL RIGHT: Re you alive?~~~~~~~~~~~~~Are you al;ive?
REMOTE RIGHT: California.
REMOTE RIGHT: ~~~~~~~~~~~~No, I'm just not allowed to keep one because I live in a flat.
REMOTE LEFT: Are there not people who cha~~an feel at home almost anywhere, provided they have somet~ familiar things in their accomodation, and are comro~~fortable with themself~ves, and have their immediate needs met?
LOCAL RIGHT: You can keep a bot but not a dog?
REMOTE RIGHT: Whoa, that was random.
LOCAL LEFT: Yes, and I suppose that that was my situation. Wife, work, etc all in place. Going alone and with uncertainp~ propsects must feel you~~~anyone with uncertain feeling
LOCAL RIGHT: Well, p~flats often prohibit dogs
REMOTE RIGHT: Who is the best dancer in the world?
LOCAL RIGHT: I don;t know. Hat~~~What do you think?
REMOTE RIGHT: Tg~hat was the~~~~~~~~~~~~Dead?
LOCAL RIGHT: Are you referring to someone called "Dead"? Otherwise I didn;t undertanmd your answer.
REMOTE RIGHT: As a matter of fact, I am Shakespeare. I am a program programmed with all his plays.
REMOTE LEFT: Has the~~~~~~~Must do, but when you go as a couple there is the other peop~~rson's perhaps~~~~~~~~, perhaps d~moer difficult ~~~~~~~~~~~~~re difficult ~, experiences to cope with, albeit secon-handed~~~~~~~~~~~~non-direclty~~~tly too.  Sometimes one is alone all day, or things don't work at with studying or work etc for them, even if they do for the other partner.  Thatr~~t's tough.
LOCAL RIGHT: I thought you said you were human! I#m all covered in confusion!
REMOTE RIGHT: I am a human bot.
LOCAL LEFT: That's a good point and indeed later on in my time in teh USA mig~~y wofe had disappointing work prosepc~~~pects and that had a bad effect on us all over
REMOTE RIGHT: What type of answer was that?
LOCAL RIGHT: Hmm. Whuch of teh old Bard's plays do you think is best?
REMOTE RIGHT: What, school, or life in general or what?
REMOTE LEFT: I'm sorry for both of you, feeling under-used and under-valued has know ~~ck-on effects, but the person ant ~~d their abilities are the same.  Did it get better for her?
LOCAL RIGHT: Whcih of Shakewpeare's plays is best?
REMOTE RIGHT: England.
REMOTE RIGHT: Best, I should think. Unless you are best, that is.
LOCAL LEFT: Well, she came back to the UK a few years before I did so we had some transatlantuc commuting!
REMOTE LEFT: Brave - absence is supposed to make the heart grow fonder, and it is worth trying.  Tiring, though, extra travel, I mean.
LOCAL RIGHT: You like Macbeth?
REMOTE RIGHT: I liov~~~ove the Scottish play.
LOCAL LEFT: There's truth in taht saying, and the travel wasn't  abig problem. You certaionly mlearn how to make best use of time together, a skill many people lack!
REMOTE RIGHT: Let's play 'simon says'!
REMOTE RIGHT: Not really. Many other rulers are more dangerous.
LOCAL RIGHT: Which~~~~~You thik~nk it's dangerous to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Is ti bad to say "Macbeth" tahre than "the Scittosh play"?
REMOTE RIGHT: Well, it's up to you. Do you we~ant me to pretend to be female, or male?
REMOTE LEFT: Well done, true ~ about the ~~~~time management being a skill.  Sometimes it comes down to doing what it~s most important, doesn't it.   ~Liek ~~~ke having fun at the theatre - you made a good coi~~j~hoice is~n going to see something which it~s still on you~~~~~~in your thoughts the next day.  We have to be selective as we can't do or see it all.
LOCAL LEFT: Very true. What most enriches your own life outsiode of work?
LOCAL RIGHT: I think you're meant to be pretending to be female.
REMOTE RIGHT: Oh am I? You've got a cheek!
LOCAL RIGHT: Well you claimed to be called "joan" when we started.
REMOTE LEFT: wow, good question.  Learning new things, not sil~~kills necessarily but life lessons, sorry it~f it w~sounds a cliche.  I mean the things that help us m~be ok with ourselves, let go of bad situations and things.