She doesn’t nag and she doesn’t have children in her luggage!
But apart from that, here’s what the sublime Kerry from The Oztraylyan repurposed from her readers:
10. The housework will get done while you are asleep so you always wake up to a clean house.
9. It won’t leave the toilet seat up.
8. It can quiet a squawking pet cocky* with a single blast of its laser.
7. On the 10th wedding anniversary, you don’t have to look too far for a tin or aluminium gift.
6. People might look at you weirdly for marrying a robot, but they’ll change their tune after it switches to exterminate mode.
5. It sleeps in a docking station, so no more doona battles.
4. It could mind the children, but a union with a robot wouldn’t produce any, would it?
3. They can be upgraded year by year to the latest model — and I mean “model”.
2. They have a really, really caring and supportive permanent listening mode.
1. The off button.
I’m reminded of what Andrew Frost wrote in The Art Life in the Sydney Morning Herald recently (Nov 10):
“The web is a realm of fads and fashions. Facebook is its latest craze. People are always asking, “How do you make money out of it?” The answer is simple: get your users to generate content. It’s worth a fortune.”
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Source:
Kerrie Murphy (2007, November 20). Could you leave mum stranded on level 10 with a henchman you didn’t kill :[1 All-round Country Edition]. The Australian,p. 36. Retrieved November 25, 2007, from ProQuest ANZ Newsstand database. (Document ID: 1385180321).
* cocky = cockatoo, a noisy, squawky bird that the foolish lower middle class sometimes try to cage and tame, to no avail. Yes, in the Ozzie lingo it can also mean “farmer” or “stock-keeper”, but in this instance it does refer to the bird, not some overly lecherous male (although a laser blast to them is not necessarily a bad idea, even if still illegal in some states.)
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Currently listening to: ACDC – Back In Black – ‘Let Me Put My Love Into You’
