Ask Lisa
nationalrail.co.uk has a new thingy called "Ask Lisa" which attempts to answer natural language questions. My conversation with it went something like this:
Q: can i take a leper on a train?A: Customers may take up to 3 items of personal luggage free of charge
Q: am i allowed to drink thirteen bottles of champagne and vomit in a lady's shoes?
A: I'm afraid my specialty (sic) is travelling by train and I cannot answer questions about clothing.
Q: what will happen if I kill myself on a railway station?
A: To find out about a particular station, you can search on the page I'm loading for you now [in a different window]
This thing is great fun. I recommend that you all abuse it.
Q: will you marry me?
A: I'm not really one for commitment - except to National Rail Enquiries, of course!
Q: I hate you
A: Why? What have I done?
Q: fucking railway!
A: I don't know very much about the privatisation of the railway - but there is an informative article on the Wikipedia website which give this detailed information.
Fairly informative, actually! :-)
Posted by Philip Paeps on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 08:22:15