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You never know when or where the funny bone will strike, so keep your notebook close and pen handy. This joke occurred to me while watching Rise of the Robots on Netflix. notice the effect of the 3-part speech or triangle applies to all types of story, speech, story, tale any topic, especially a good joke.
Start out with a question to your audience:
Question: Anyone familiar with the progress of humanoid robots with real-world application?
The Perfect Robot to Serve Man
M.I.T announced an Advanced Robotic Competition to compete for best humanoid robot equipped to serve mankind.
Every robotics inventor, all the great minds across the globe jumped at the chance. Every sci-fi groupie, nerd and geek followed. TV, press media flocked to the scene. 1,000 robot entries!
Winning Criteria
Robots were judged on best performance on three main criteria:
- Agility
- Ability
- Awareness
Agility – pass an obstacle course
- Across rough terrain
- Navigate through collapsed houses
- Walk through rubble
Ability – rescue capacity motor skills
- Open doors
- Turn valves
- Climb ladders
Awareness – handle delicate tasks
- Wash and dry a cocktail glass
- Grill a vegeburger
- Mix a 007 Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred
Let the Contest Begin!
One by one, each robot tackled the tasks
- Some fell off ladders or tripped over pebbles
- Others crashed through doors
- One pulled a valve out of its sprocket
Those that made it through the first obstacle course failed at motor skills. One incinerated the burger with a microwave blast from its eyeballs.
Hopes arose when robot #751 made its way expertly through all the obstacles but then drank the Martini and collapsed.
As the contest digressed into a robotic demolition derby, to everyone’s surprise, the very last entry, Robot #1000 sprinted through the tasks.
- Passed all obstacles
- Rescued the victim
- Delivered a perfect 007 Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred
“We have a winner!”the judges declared
- World’s First Perfect Robot to Serve Man! the media crowed
- Cheers and champagne flowed
- The ecstatic and champagne soaked crew rushed to hug their winning robot
…which instantly barbecued them all to serve mankind.
The 3-Part Speech works especially well for jokes!
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