“Yes you did,” Roy said. “I made a note of it.”

“Oh, you made a note, did you,” the robot asked, dropping its arm.

“Yep, sure did,”

“Okay, if you have a note, where is it? Show it to me.”

“Don’t be… not so subtly ridiculous,” Roy said. “Obviously, I don’t have an actual note. It’s in my head.”

“Yeah, okay,” the robot emphasized. “Hows abouts, ‘you’ don’t be… some other form of doubly negated subtly ridiculous, Roy, foreverforth and hencefurther.”

“Me, ridiculous?” Roy laughed. “That’s laughable.”

“Listen… Roy,” the robot said, its vocal pattern modulated for what was...

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