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Skriven 2008-08-27 19:17:06 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: BUYING A DURIAN 80823
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Hi Buddy              8/27/08 7:12 PM

gj-> Last week I had both a durian and Kevin in my house at the same time!


Ummmm... now there's a double header.

gj-> After lunch Kevin tottered off, belching gently, to take the bus home,
gj-> but the rest of the large durian remained until the next day.  My
son's
gj-> girlfriend came a bit later, commented on the aroma and bravely shared
gj-> the last of the fruit with me, enjoying it greatly.  My son was not
gj-> impressed at all!  I know you like it, but I haven't heard what
Shirley
gj-> thought of the "fruit of kings".

She doesn't like it, although she tried it.

BF> "Danger Will Robinson!"

gj-> Who is or was Will Robinson?

Sorry to be so late.  I'll try to make up by being definitive.

From Wikipedia:
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“Danger, Will Robinson!ö is an English catch phrase that is derived from
the quintessentially classic 1960s American television series Lost in
Space. The phrase truly exemplifies the dichotomous relationship between
two of its regular characters, the Robot and Will Robinson over the course
of several episodes of that series. The autonomous (and anonymous) robot
adopts a protective attitude toward Will, and alerts him thus to dangerous
situations, expecting Will to take immediate action to protect himself. The
robot cannot do everything, even though its sensors are amazingly
sensitive:

    “Warning! Warning! Alien spacecraft approaching," he exclaims, flailing
his hooks wildly!

In hacker culture and in English-speaking society, this catch phrase
currently serves as a facetious method to inform an associate that they are
about to make an imbecilic mistake—that there’s a factor he or she
overlooked which ought to be taken into account.

When given in person, the vocal klaxon is more-often-than-not accompanied
by a brief and careful oscillation of one’s arms to and fro and up and
down, parodying the body language of the original chrome-plated character.

Despite the popularity of the phrase in everyday culture, it was only said
once on the show. This was during episode 11 of season 3 "The Deadliest of
the Species". The Robot gave warnings intermittently to Will and the other
crew members of the Jupiter 2, in the form of the expressions "Warning!"
and "Danger!".
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Burt 
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