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From: col... Sean Colbath
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 21:31

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In article <1990Feb2.0...@athena.mit.edu> j...@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <75...@wpi.wpi.edu>, prof...@wpi.wpi.edu (Matthew E Cross) writes:
>> I don't know how widespread this is, but if I type 'ESC-x
>psychoanalyze-pinhead'
>
>  Well, considering that it comes with the standard GNUemacs sources,
>and lots and lots of people are running GNUemacs, it's probably pretty common.
>
>  Also note that "psychoanalyze-pinhead" is simply emacs' "doctor"
>routine (an implementation of ELIZA) talking to emacs' "yow" routine
>(which spits out fabricated Zippy quotes).  You can run M-x doctor by
>itself to talk to eliza, or run M-x yow to get a Zippy quote in your
>mini-buffer....

Actually, the funny thing about "psychoanalyze-pinhead" is that after 10 or
so iterations of zippy quotes and responses from the doctor, the doctor says:

Hey...  Are you Zippy?

>  Yes, sir, emacs -- the editor that has everything -- including the
>kitchen sink!

No comment...

>Jonathan Kamens			              USnail:
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-- 
Sean Colbath
col...@cs.rochester.edu			...uunet!rochester!colbath
"And now for something completely different..."

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From: col...@cs.rochester.edu (Sean Colbath)
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Subject: Re: EMACS
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Date: 5 Feb 90 21:31:24 GMT
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