munck%Mitre-Bedford@sri-unix.UUCP (07/22/84)
I have fond but very vague memories of a series of stories from a couple
of decades ago, about an inventor who did his best work while drunk and
the robot he invented while in said state, whose primary purpose was to be
a beer-can opener. The inventor's name may have been Gallagher and the
robot's Joe; I do remember that beer cans had just been replaced by
"plasti-bulbs," rendering the robot obsolete as well as silly.
Can anyone give me a pointer to these stories? Thanks.
-- Bob Munck (MUNCK@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA)boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (07/24/84)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Jerry Boyajian) > I have fond but very vague memories of a series of stories from a > couple of decades ago, about an inventor who did his best work while > drunk and the robot he invented while in said state, whose primary > purpose was to be a beer-can opener. The inventor's name may have > been Gallagher and the robot's Joe; I do remember that beer cans had > just been replaced by "plasti-bulbs," rendering the robot obsolete > as well as silly. > > Can anyone give me a pointer to these stories? Thanks. > -- Bob Munck (MUNCK@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA) I believe you're thinking of the "Galloway Gallegher" stories by Henry Kuttner (originally published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION under the pseudonym Lewis Padgett). The only collection of those stories, ROBOTS HAVE NO TAILS, is long out of print, but you might find a copy in a good used bookstore. You might find some of the stories in other collections of Kuttner's, too. Give a day or so, and I'll have a bibliography for you. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my Business">
Alfke.pasa@XEROX.ARPA (07/25/84)
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rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (07/26/84)
[] Yes, those were hum-dingers allright, but your off by an order of (binary) magnitude - try 4 decades. These were stories of the forties in big A. I have only read them in books. Now, the author was...one of the few who are able to write truly funny science fiction. Of course that could be non other than ... uh,well,uh (early Altzheimers, you see) ...ah ... Pratt? My books are at home. You tell him, guys! Dick Grantges hound!rfg
barto@celerity.UUCP (08/03/84)
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Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Robotic Can Opener
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