439
UNKNOWN
PARRY encounters the DOCTOR
Authors: V. Cerf
Date: January 1973
Stream: Legacy
RFC 439
UNKNOWN
Network Working Group V. Cerf
Request for Comments: 439 SU-ERL
NIC: 13771 21 January 1973
<span class="h1">PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR</span>
The session recorded below actually happened on 18 September 1972 and
is herewith reproduced for your entertainment.
Good Evening.
Tell me your problems. Please terminate input with a period or a
question mark.
*People get on my nerves sometimes.
I am not sure I understand you fully.
*You should pay more attention.
Suppose you should pay more attention.
*You're entitled to your own opinion.
What makes you think I am entitled to my own opinion?
*It bothers me just to be around people in general.
Please go on.
*I went to the track at Bay Meadows a while back.
What does that suggest to you?
*I went to the races.
What else would you like to discuss?
*Horseracing interests me.
Why do you say that just now?
*There's a lot of crooked gambling going on there.
I am not sure I understand you fully,
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*It's clear to me if not to you.
Do you think its likely that not to I?
*I went to the races.
Please go on.
*I gamble on horses.
What does that suggest to you?
*I went to the races.
What else would you like to discuss?
*Gambling has been nothing but trouble to me.
Why do you say that just now?
*I've had experience with crooks gambling at the track.
I am not sure I understand you fully.
*I've already told you enough about that.
Oh? I enough about that?
*I went to the races.
comment: This has to be the most persistent and patient
paranoid I have ever encountered.
Please go on.
*Do you know anything about bookies?
What makes you think I know anything about bookies?
*A bookie didn't pay me off once.
What does that suggest to you?
*I beat up the bookie who did not pay off, and I thought he might use
his friends in the underworld to get even with me.
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What else would you like to discuss?
*What do you know about racketeers?
Why do you ask?
*What experience have you had gambling?
Why does that question interest you?
*I like horseraces.
What else do you like?
*I know the mob controls the big rackets.
Who are you really talking about?
*Have you ever really thought about the MAFIA?
Suppose you ever really thought about the MAFIA.
*Let's talk about something else.
I am not sure I understand you fully.
*You keep asking me the same things, why not change the topic?
In what way?
*What do you mean?
Why are such questions on your mind?
*I thought I told you, people get on my nerves.
Your nerves?
*Well, I don't know.
Don't you really know?
*I would say so.
Please go on.
*I would rather not discuss that anymore.
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Would you like to discuss your nerves?
*I guess so.
What does that suggest to you?
*What are you getting at?
What answer would please you most?
*It's not a matter or like or dislike.
What else would you like to discuss?
*I am getting tired of answering the same questions over and over.
What resemblance do you see?
*Why do you need to know that?
What do you think?
*I don't understand your motives.
Why don't you understand my motives?
*Shouldn't I be?
comment: ???
Why do you say that just now?
comment: I was wondering the same thing.
*That's just the way it is.
Suppose that's just the way it were not.
*So?
I am not sure I understand you fully.
*You harp on the same questions too much.
What does that similarity suggest to you?
*I don't get you.
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Do you wish that you did get I?
*It's about time you showed some interest in my feelings.
Oh? I showed some interest in your feelings?
comment: must have been an accident...
*I will help you if I trust you.
Do you wish that you trust I?
*Maybe yes, maybe no.
You don't seem quite certain.
...Excuse me for just a minute. Sorry to have interrupt you please
continue...
*Really?
Please go on.
*In my opinion you have a one-track mind.
What makes you think I have a one-track mind?
comment: you ready for this?
*I used to go to the track every week.
What does that suggest to you?
*I avoid racetracks now because the races are fixed.
Is that the real reason?
*I'd rather not discuss it.
What else would you like to discuss?
*That's something I don't want to go into.
Does that trouble you?
*I went to the races.
Why do you say that just now.
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*It's none of your business.
Why are you concerned over my business?
*I don't confide in strangers.
Don't you really confide in strangers?
*Let's change the subject.
Perhaps that concerns your feelings.
*I went to the races.
I am not sure I understand you fully.
*What's wrong with you that you keep on bugging me about this?
Who are you really talking about?
*The way you repeat yourself is getting ridiculous.
Suppose you repeat myself is getting ridiculous.
comment: howzat?
*There are some tricky operators down there.
Are there really some tricky operators down there?
*The guys involved in the horseracing racket.
Please go on.
*You are a real nag.
comment: just one of the horses.
Does it please you to believe I am a real nag?
*I have had enough of this.
What does that suggest to you?
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*Goodbye.
It's been my pleasure, that's $399.29 please.
comment: talk about tricky operators...
PARRY was running at SAIL and DOCTOR at BBN Tenex, both being
accessed from UCLA/SEX.
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