I'm crying fowl on this experiment. In the latter exercise, there are other reasons why "Turing" could not have walked or quacked like a duck. That is because he is obviously a drake.

If he had, under field conditions, displayed any of the characteristics of a duck, his fate might well have been determined by, let us say, more Drake-onian measures. I refer you to the precedents outlined earlier in the thread...

My method exactly, Bill, though I pass on illegal drugs. Gin seems to answer. I think the small readership, like those lovely Church of England churches without congregations, is a guarantee of worth. After all, millions read the ignorant, ill-written screeds perpetrated by whassissname, the perpetrator of the Da Vinci Cod, a truly wet fish.

This topic has now got cross-threaded, like the lid of a jam-jar. Oh, what fun!

I could show you a way to sort it out using postcards, a hole-punch and a knitting needle. Any takers?

Mark Zuckerberg is definitely a machine.