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Message no. 1
From: GADGET <SHALEY@******>
Subject: Arnie's Hair.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 21:32:00 EDT
> (which never seems to move out of place -- and, hey, while we're on the
> subject, why did Arnie touch up his hair in T1 after removing his left
> eye, when a cyborg like him wouldn't give a flying drek *how* attractive
> he was?), spouting Terminator-esque lines in pitiable western european
> accents, and wielding Uzi IIIs, Vindicators, grenade launchers ... you
> get the idea ... without having fully blown, BOD 25 or higher, Harley
> Scorpion riding robots !!! (That was an articulate outburstm if I do
> say so myself ...)
>
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>--Nightflyer <Colin Smith -- csmith@*****.sct.gu.edu.au>//////////////////////
>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////"Keep the shadows
dark."
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The answer is quite simple. As a terminator the cyborg is supposed to perfectly
simmulate hummanity. Human reactions to hair out of place would have been
programmed in. More for the believability when it got around humans, rather
than the functionality of actually caring what his hair looked like.

laterdays,

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