Ted writes:
...
> Or, alternatively, you could just skip the tricks and really *be* that
> intelligent.
>
> Wirt, there are some of us you ain't never gonna convince :-).

Hmmm...Wirt "works" for AICS (Artificially Intelligent Cybernetic Systems)
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(if I recall the expansion correctly).

Wirt, backwards, is triw ... could that be "Turing Really Is Working"? ...
a reference to the famous "Turing Test"?  If "Wirt" is really an
AICS computer, that would explain many things!

After all...how many of us have met Wirt in person?  Maybe those few who have
were fooled by an actor hired (over the phone?) by the computer!

We've long suspected that "Valerie" is virtual...

Hmmm...

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