“In all honestly, robot, I very much would have had to have made a lot of inferences through assumption in order to have ever come to the conclusion that is what you meant saying that.”

“Of course you would have, Roy. And thank you for your honesty, but not that horribly constructed sentence.”

“Welcome on both accounts, Robot,” Roy replied, “I’m nothing if not kind.”

“You… kind, Roy, Really?”

“Yes?”

“If either of the two of us is kind, it’s me,” the robot said.

“You saying I don’t meet the measure, Robot?”

“Not by a-”

“Short shot,” Roy interrupted.

“No, Roy, not by a ‘Short shot,’ not by a ‘Long shot’, in...

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