The Truth Eho The Eyes Met Before
21-Jun-2008After reading about and enjoying the Firefox 3.0 about:robots “feature,” Mr 5’s $8 plastic gift for accompanying me to the markets today might have been a subliminally-suggested choice. We acquired a fashivhably coloured, double-luffing, go-ahead homage to a silly software release mascot.
For fans of robots, this model screams “Fire. Fire. Get down!” deafeningly and something else we can’t make out. Non! Stop! All the while swivelling its randomly illuminated plastic torso and waggling its arms up and down. He falls over due to being newly hatched from a Styrofoam incubator — and he’s obviously not yet accustomed to his roller skates.
“Could sound a beautiful music” (which we assume is a rough translation for “emits loud screaming and gunfire”) led to Dobo Arigato Mr Beat Magnum having a nasty run-in with J.
Mr 5 couldn’t hear his mother screaming at him to make the bad robot stop. He’s is missing an arm now (Mr Beat Magnum, not Mr 5), complete with dangling wires. This makes him look much cooler and we have a war story about the time he sacrificed an arm to save Mr 5 from harm.
Beautiful.
Chris Mountford | 23-Jun-2008Beautiful.
... so did the act of not hearing his mothers
Headwellered | 8-Aug-2008… so did the act of not hearing his mothers screams cause the arm to ‘fall off ‘ and therefore cause the war injury?
Mel
@Mel: J's blood-curdling war cry to "shut that damn thing
Chris | 8-Aug-2008@Mel:
J’s blood-curdling war cry to “shut that damn thing up” was not what severed the arm. That cry was followed by reaching down and picking up the robot by the arm. Not unexpectedly the arm wasn’t up to the war-fighting durability standards for toys in our house and J ended up with a disembodied arm and Mr Roboto continued luffing and sound a beautiful music on the floor. It was left to me to grope around the diodes on his left side to find the power switch.