Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 19, 2015

Off to a museum you go.

Unlike that phone, Robby won’t cause you to have a head-on collision or walk into a mall fountain.

Oh yeah? And can your phone pick up a scantily clad lady and look cool 60 years from now?

Nope, that isn’t him.

Is there an echo in here?

No.

Even from a bygone era Robby still does twenty times what Rat’s useless phone can do.

If that’s supposed to be the robot from Forbidden Planet, it can still do a lot more than any of today’s computers.

The Apollo moon landers had less computing power than today’s smart phones.

Robby is still more impressive than Rat with his phone will ever be. Long live the robot from the 1950s!

Robby does not need a signal to operate.

Hate to be a buzzkill, but that looks nothing like Robby. Doesn’t even have a plexiglass dome for a head.

No worries Robby. I don’t care what the dang things can do. I STILL won’t get one! (Fact)

Mine isn’t a smartphine…it get’s lost all the time.

@gopher, one of the best SF movies of all time.

In the movie Robbie could create bottles of bourbon by the truckload – Rat would appreciate that.

Modern electronic technology has come so far. Gone are the days of errors and problems. Remember how records used to skip, and recordings repeat. Because we are so sophisticated and advanced, nothing like that ever happens now. No repeats at all.

Robbie can go to the fridge and get Pig a beer. Rat’s smartphone can’t do that!

Things are tough all over for robots.

So like our society – “You’re old. Now go away where we can’t see you.”

News flash: For the second day, the doppelgänger hacker is on the prowl! Whatever you post will be repeated. Just delete one of the posts, and all will be well.

I evidently wasn’t into robot stuff in the 1950’s (and didn’t have a TV till ‘64). To my mind, the most memorable robot was Marvin, of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Now, he had personality (not one we’d want to spend much time with, but personality nonetheless).

That doesn’t look at all like Robby.

SORRY… THAT IS NOT ROBBIE THE ROBOT. WHERE IS HIS DOMED HEAD AND THE TWIRLY THINGS ON SIDES AND THE BUBBLE ARMS AND THE PIANO KEY COMPUTERS IN THE HEAD. SORRY YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG………

GO SEE THE MOVIE FORBIDDEN PLANET. GREAT CLASSIC.

IT STARS LESLIE NELSON BEFORE HE BECAME A COMMEDIAN……

Robbie (different spelling) was also the name of the robot and title character of Isaac Asimov’s first robot story, written in 1939.

Robby the Robot’s services were no longer required.

xxx

1 bourbon, 1 scotch, and 1 beer—hold the oxygen

@Liverlips:no wonder, since today’s CPUs contain billion transistors. Back in ’69, it was much less, even by using VLSI chips. Even my humble AMD FX has 1.5 billion transistors.

Did Don Ameche expect all this when he (with a little help from Henry Fonda) invented the telephone?!?

Does less than your phone? I haven’t seen any phones with arms and legs.

Heck—remember those communicators they had in the 23rd century Star Trek?

They can’t even take pictures!

Isaac Asimov’s Robbie was so much more fun!