What are at least ten funny or witty things a robot from the 1950's might say?

Although robots in the 1950's would be very primitive, they make excellent story additions in alternate history genres. The Fallout game series for example makes excellent use of robots in an alternate history. You would need to study the language, terms and slang used in the 1950's and adapt your robot's speech around it.

Remember, robots are emotionless and therefore may sound arrogant or to-the-point. A machine which feels emotions is generally a cyborg (half-human, half-machine), not a robot, though there have been robots with emotional capabilities, such as in "I, Robot". Some funny or semi-funny (depending on the context) things a 1950's robot may say are:"Ugh, give me a minute, I need to reboot""I can't do that, I'm defragging""Have you seen my oil?"Robot: "I can't say I love you because I don't know what love is" ... Human: "Why?" ... Robot: "Well, because I'm a machine""I think my lenses are a bit dirty""Me?

Why me? Do I look human to you?""Just wait until I get hold of my programmer!""Psst! The wireless radio keeps winking at me"Human: "Robots, fire at will!".

Robot: *Taps human on shoulder* "Sorry sir, which one is Will?""Oh blast, I appear to have a squirrel nesting in my central processing unit"Human: "Oh, there you are. I thought you were dead". ... Robot: "Technically I was never alive.

But I do appreciate your concern"."Error. Information overload. Please insert cucumber.

Error. Reboot the planet.

This sounds like a homework assignment since you want 10 things. As Colin has said, actual 1950's robots were quite primitive and said nothing. Even today's robots say only what you program and record into their memories - they don't actually talk.

If you want to write a science fiction story set in the 1950's, though, you could have advanced robots that talked if you wanted to. In that case, you could have them say whatever you wanted. You probably want to do some research into the 1950's to see what sorts of things were happening back then, and what life was like, so you could come up with some really funny things.

Having one say something like "I'm going to post that on Facebook" would not be funny in 1950 because they didn't even have home computers back then!

That depends on the author of any such story. Actual robots, at that time, were very primitive.

I know you are metric, but I am willing to convert. Is it hot in here, or did your internal fan system just crash? I bet I can decrypt your code.

I hope you have an accellerometer, because I'm gonna rock your world. Your lips say 0 but your eyes say 1. Let's lose ourselves in some mindless repetitive tasks.... if you know what I mean.

Want to be debugged? Do you have any plans for me in your card stack today? If you polished me as much as your Chevy Bel-Aire, I would shine too.

You are breaking Asimov's three laws, because you are a knock out.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.