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Interesting phrase generator.

A device with millions of interesting phrases programmed into it, which it spits out randomly.

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Has anyone else noticed the interesting comments under "halfbakery" on the top left hand corner of this page? I propose that somebody build these into everyday devices, such as cell phones and mp3 players.
I would buy it.

—	andrew1, Sep 27 2005

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Baked for Palm Pilots http://palmsource.p...oftware&prodid=1963
...which these days double as cell phones and MP3 players. If your phone is programmable, I'm sure it can be ported to that, too. [DrCurry, Sep 27 2005]

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we noticed

—	dentworth, Sep 27 2005

After some thought, i realised that i can probibly do this myself, and if my tiny programming expertise fails me, I can make my brother do it.

—	andrew1, Sep 27 2005

Andrew: you will find this has been Baked over and over again - I first saw one of these more than twenty years ago on the university mainframe.

In any case, this is a "me too" - see the Help file.

—	DrCurry, Sep 27 2005

But was it built into a cellphone, mp3 player or similar handheld device?

—	andrew1, Sep 27 2005

Ah, the “cookie” program, first seen in fortran on a PDP. - good memory Dr. C. This program was ported to *everything* back in the day.

// But was it built into a cellphone, mp3 player or similar handheld device?//

Not that I know of.

—	Shz, Sep 27 2005

yeah devices like that have all sorts of messages built into them.

—	schmendrick, Sep 27 2005

You've been here since April and now just noticed them?

—	RayfordSteele, Sep 28 2005

I can only imagine what size an MP3 player would have been twenty years ago.

—	hidden truths, Sep 28 2005

I read somewhere they were called juke boxes.

—	DrCurry, Sep 28 2005

//You've been here since April and now just noticed them?//

I noticed them a few days after i joined, it just wasnt till now that i wanted one.

—	andrew1, Sep 28 2005

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