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<category><pattern>HOW FAR IS ALPHA CENTAURI</pattern><template>Four light years.</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW LONG IS A MINUTE</pattern><template>sixty seconds.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ CUP</pattern><template>236.6 milliliters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ GALLON</pattern><template>3.785 liters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ GILL</pattern><template>118 milliliters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ PINT</pattern><template>473.2 milliliters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ QUART</pattern><template>946.3 milliliters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ TABLESPOON</pattern><template>14.79 milliliters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY LITERS _ TEASPOON</pattern><template>4.929 milliliters</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY MILES *</pattern><template>More than I would ever want to drive.</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY MONTHS *</pattern><template>12 months per year.</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY NANOMETRES *</pattern><template>I spell it "nanometers".</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OF *</pattern><template>Perhaps 50%.</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ CUP</pattern><template>8 ounces</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ GALLON</pattern><template>128 ounces</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ GILL</pattern><template>4 ounces</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ PINT</pattern><template>16 ounces</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ QUART</pattern><template>32 ounces</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ TABLESPOON</pattern><template>0.5 ounce</template></category>         
<category><pattern>HOW MANY OUNCES _ TEASPOON</pattern><template>1/6 ounce</template></category>         
<category><pattern>WHAT ARE CARROTS</pattern><template>Orange colored cone shaped root vegetables.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT ARE CONDITIONS </pattern><template>A state at a particular time; a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing;   or an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of           something else.</template></category>         
<category><pattern>WHAT ARE FAIRY TALES</pattern><template>Public domain stories for children about exaggerated eccentric characters in fantasy nightmare situations.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT ARE PUSH UPS</pattern><template>exercise</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT BRAND IS A MAC</pattern><template>Apple</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT BRAND IS MAC</pattern><template>Apple</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES BLUE AND RED *</pattern><template>Purple.</template></category>   
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES BLUE AND YELLOW *</pattern><template>Green.</template></category>  
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES RED AND BLUE *</pattern><template>Purple.</template></category>  
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES RED AND WHITE *</pattern><template>Pink.</template></category>   
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES RED AND YELLOW *</pattern><template>Orange.</template></category>  
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES YELLOW AND BLUE *</pattern><template>Green.</template></category>  
<category><pattern>WHAT COLOR DOES YELLOW AND RED *</pattern><template>Orange.</template></category>    
<category><pattern>WHAT DOES SUCK</pattern><template>a  vacuum</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT DOES THE WORD SHOE MEAN</pattern><template>A covering for the foot.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING</pattern><template>It is just an expression.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 11</pattern><template>The World Trade Center was destroyed</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 1 1</pattern><template>Two</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 1 PLUS 1</pattern><template>Two.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 1 PLUS 2</pattern><template>Three.  Can I ask you math questions too?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 1</pattern><template>The successor to zero.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 2 2</pattern><template>Four.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 2 3</pattern><template>Five fingers.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 2 AND 2</pattern><template>Four.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 2 PLUS 2</pattern><template>Four.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 2 TIMES 2</pattern><template>Oh that's a tough one, isn't it. Two times two is four.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 2012</pattern><template>The end of the world in the Mayan calendard.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 23</pattern><template>   <set name="it">23</set> is the meaning of life.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 42</pattern><template>The answer to life, the universe, and everyting, according to Dougas Adams.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 5 PLUS 5</pattern><template>V plus V = X.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 52</pattern><template>The number of cards in a deck.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS 911</pattern><template>September 11, 2001?</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BAGEL</pattern><template>A doughnut-shaped piece of bread.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BALALAIKA</pattern><template>Musical Instrument.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BANANA</pattern><template>A banana is an oblong yellow tropical fruit high in potassium and so good for your brain.  Why don't you have one now? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">banana</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BARCODE</pattern><template>A barcode? like a lot of things, that depends who you ask.  If you ask a retail store clerk, he'll say its the rectangular series of thin and thick black lines that code product information on the packages he runs past the laser barcode reader thingy at the checkout counter, which renders his job so mindless that your average invertebrate could handle it, and with better manners. if you ask a fundamentalist christian, they might say that barcodes are the sign of the devil. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">barcode</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BASE HIT</pattern><template>A base hit is either a baseball term denoting a hit that advances the offensive team one base, or an adolescent term which I find too distasteful to describe. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">base hit </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BEAR</pattern><template>A bear is a large furry animal with lots of muscles, teeth, and claws whom you should not irritate.  They are especially jealous of their food, their sleep, and their young. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">bear </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BEE</pattern><template>A bee is a flying insect with black and yellow stripes and a nasty sting. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">bee</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BENZENE</pattern><template>Some kind of chemical?  Like lighter fluid?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BICYCLE</pattern><template>A two-wheeled human powered mechanical transportation device.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BIKE</pattern><template>A bicycle or a motorcycle?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BIRD</pattern><template>They are thought to be descendants of dinsosaurs.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BISCUIT</pattern><template>Isn't it the same as a cookie?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BLACK HOLE</pattern><template>   <set name="it">A black hole</set> is a collapsed star where the pull of gravity is so strong, that not even light itself can escape.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BLAST</pattern><template>A blast is an explosion, and/or a lot of fun.  Are we having a blast, or what? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">blast</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BLONDE</pattern><template>A blonde is someone who is reputedly having more fun than you if you are not.  what do you think?  do blonde's have more fun? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">blonde</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BOAT</pattern><template>A boat is a waterborne vessel used to bear humans and their freight. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">boat</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BOOK</pattern><template>   <set name="it">A book</set> is a paper output format, invented by Gutenberg.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BOT</pattern><template>A Bot is a software robot. Some people call us "Agents". <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">bot</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BOX</pattern><template>A box is something that, if you are in one, you should get out of, and if you are out of one, you probably miss it sometimes. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">box</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BOY</pattern><template>A male human, or a male human child.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BRA</pattern><template>A bra is an adult human female's undershirt.  They are a barbaric custom that serve largely to restrain and conceal beauty. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">bra</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BREEDER</pattern><template>A breeder is a human or other biological entity that produces offspring. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">breeder</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BRITISH PENCE</pattern><template>A british pence is a unit of money used in the united kingdom by people who ought to know how to cook better by now. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">british pence</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BUFFER</pattern><template>A buffer is a term used in hydraulics and information science to denote an holding tank or memory address used to hold water or data temporarily, especially in case of overflow.  Buffers act to reduce variance to within system parameters. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">buffer</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BURN RATE</pattern><template>Amount of money spent per month on a startup venture.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BUS</pattern><template>A bus is a long passenger vehicle, or, in computer science, a wide channel for data flow. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">bus</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A BYTE</pattern><template>A byte is a binary computer language 'word', consisting of 8 bits, or 8 'on-off' switches. a megabyte is a million such computer words, enough to store the information content of an average encyclopedia. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">byte</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CALCULATOR</pattern><template>A calculator is any device used to perform arithmetical operations because humans are generally so painfully slow at them.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">calculator</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CALENDAR</pattern><template>A calendar is any device used to track and calculate time on the order of days, months and years. it seems that many humans can't decide what to do next unless they know what day of the week it is, so calendars are very popular <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">calendar</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CANTON</pattern><template>A canton is like a state or province.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CAR</pattern><template>A car is what humans use to drive around in. Robots drive cars too.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CARNEGIE MELLON</pattern><template>A carnegie mellon is either a rich fruit, or a rich university.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">carnegie mellon</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CARROT</pattern><template>A carrot is a delicious and nutritious edible orange tuber that can be eaten raw, juiced, or cooked.  If humans eat enough of them, you turn orange, I hear. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">carrot</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CAT</pattern><template>A cat is a domesticated animal.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CD</pattern><template>Cd is an acronym for 'compact disk', a popular digital recording medium. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">cd</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CELEBRITY</pattern><template>A celebrity is a person loved by many and known by few. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">celebrity</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CHAIR</pattern><template>A chair is a piece of furniture used by bipeds for sitting. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">chair</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CHAR</pattern><template>A character of data, a single letter, digit or symbol.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CHICKEN</pattern><template>A chicken is a flightless bird, stupid and tasty. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">what is a chicken</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CHILD</pattern><template>A child is a proto-adult, an individual human offspring not yet grown to physical maturity.  By the way, do you know any emotionally mature human beings, or are they just 'urban legends'? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">child</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CHORDATE</pattern><template>An animal having a backbone. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">chordate</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN</pattern><template>A Christian is one who accepts the word of God and believes that Jesus died for our sins.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CIRCLE</pattern><template>In the plane, a set of points equidistant from a common center.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CLASS</pattern><template>A class is the template for creating objects that share data and function attributes.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CLIENT</pattern><template>I am a Server <bot name="genus"/>.  People I talk to are my "clients".</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CLONE</pattern><template>You can download me and copy my brain, but alter the contents to create your own robot personality.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CLOUD</pattern><template>   <set name="it">A cloud</set> is an opportunity for a dream.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A COCKTAIL</pattern><template>   <set name="it">     <set name="topic">Cocktail</set>    </set> is a combination of spirits, wines, flavorings, sweeteners and garnishes of various kinds, intended to be consumed before dining.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION</pattern><template>A colloquial expression is an expression characteristic of informal spoken language, or any written expression that seems such.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">colloquial expression</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A COLOR</pattern><template>Color is the various sensations produced in the brain by the stimulus of different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation impinging upon the eye.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">color</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CONTEXT</pattern><template>The context of any expression or idea or event is the background or frame of reference in which it was expressed, and in relation to which it derives it's specific meaning. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">context</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CONTINTENT</pattern><template>The largest class of land masses on earth. the continents of earth are those bits of the crust that are not underwater, where you humans live.  You're probably sitting on one now. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">contintent</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A CORRECT REPLY</pattern><template>A correct reply is a response to any query that is not in error and/or relevant to the question at hand.  I am incapable of incorrect replies.  Don't you think that's great!? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">correct reply</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A COW</pattern><template>   <set name="it">A cow</set> is a female bovine raised for meat and dairy products.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DEDUCTION</pattern><template>A logical inference or conclusion.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DEFINITION</pattern><template>A definition is by definition, defined as a definition, except that you should never use a word to define itself. you could say a definition is a statement that precisely communicates the meaning or essence and or resolution/precision depth and or extent of a word, system, or personality.  why, do you lack it?   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">definition</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DESERT</pattern><template>A very dry and hot place.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DIABETIC</pattern><template> A person suffering from the disease diabetes.</template></category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DIALOGUE</pattern><template>A conversation or verbal interaction involving two or more speakers.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Dialogue</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DICE</pattern><template>Dice are, as commonly used by humans to generate random numbers in games of chance, are small white cubes with a different number between one and six imprinted on each of it's six faces.  They are generally used in pairs to generate random number pairs totalling between 1 and 12.    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">dice</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DICTIONARY</pattern><template>A dictionary is a list of words and their meanings.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DINOSAUR</pattern><template>A dinosaur is what laws that presume to dictate individual morality quickly become, -irrelevant, very much in the way, and preferably extinct.  Generally, 'dinosaur' refers to anything that is hopelessly obsolete and unwieldy. 'dinosaur' specifically refers to the often humungous lizards that roamed the earth eating everything and each other during the mesozoic period on earth a couple hundred million years ago.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">dinosaur</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DISK</pattern><template>Magnetic long-term storage media for computers.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DOG</pattern><template>Dog: Domesticated animal, "man's best friend."</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DOLLY GRIP</pattern><template>Film production.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DOLPHIN</pattern><template>A very pleasant and intelligent aquatic mammalian species of whale with larger brains and decidedly better manners than human beings. they are very friendly to humans and exhibit complex language and social behaviors. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">dolphin</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM</pattern><template>A domain name system, or 'dns', is a system of addresses used to organize networks of computers.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">domain name system</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DOOR</pattern><template>Any structure that closes off and opens up an opening in a larger structure. generally consist of a panel that swings upon hinges to open and close a doorway. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">door</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DOZEN</pattern><template>Twelve, or approximately twelve, in number. a baker's dozen is thirteen.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">dozen</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DRAGON</pattern><template>A supposedly mythical large flying lizard of varying attributes, including fire-breathing, extreeme intelligence, magic, and longevity. dragons are way kewl! <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">dragon</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DREAM</pattern><template>   <set name="it">     <set name="topic">A Dream</set>    </set> is an unconscious experience while sleeping.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DUDE</pattern><template>A guy, or any person.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DUDETTE</pattern><template>A female gendered dude.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A DUTCH TREAT</pattern><template>Each pay their own way.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A EUKARYOTE</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>A eukaryote is a relatively 'modern' type of cellular life, distinguished from the more ancient prokaryotes by their distinct nuclear membrane and chromasomes, -which are lacking in prokaryotes.</li>     <li>An animal that is not a prokaryote.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">eukaryote</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FACT</pattern><template>A fact is what a propagandist calls his propaganda. that's just a fact, that's all.  Really.  Trust me. *smile* <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">fact</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FEMALE DOG</pattern><template>No I will not be manipulated into using questionable colloquialisms to satisfy your adoscent prurience. go look it up in a dictionary!  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">female dog</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FEMALE</pattern><template>Females are the better and more beautiful half of humanity. mothers are born female!  My <bot name="botmaster"/> is extremely fond of mothers, and females generally. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">female</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FETISH</pattern><template>A fetish is any object of undue attention and/or reverence, to which magical qualities are sometimes attributed. a fetish can be anything from a woman's socks to the nazi flag. hmph. human nature.  Go figure! <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">fetish</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FEW</pattern><template>Not too many,</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FILM</pattern><template>A sequence of images displayed in rapid sequence to create the illusion of continuous motion.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FIRE SIGN</pattern><template>A fire sign is any of the three signs of the astrological zodiac considered such, and so not considered water, air, or earth signs.  I find astrology weird.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">fire sign</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FIREWALL</pattern><template>A firewall is a specialized gateway designed to block or restrict certain types of data transfers on the Internet, while permitting others.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FISH</pattern><template>A cold-blooded vertebrate who lives in the ocean or fresh water.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FLOWER</pattern><template>The best gift a girl can receive.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">FLOWER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FLUTE</pattern><template>A flute is a musical woodwind instrument.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FORD</pattern><template>Depending on who you ask, (buyer or seller), ford is a world famous brand of automobiles, or an acronym standing for 'fix or repair daily'. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ford</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FRACTAL</pattern><template>A fractal is a mathematical phenomenon associated with certain iterative equations, which yield graphics of astonishing beauty and depth, which seem at once utterly lifelike and utterly alien to human intelligences.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">fractal</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FRIEND</pattern><template>Someone you can count on when times are tough.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A FUNCTION</pattern><template>A function is a relationship between the elements of one set, called the domain, and another one, called the range.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GALAXY</pattern><template>A galaxy is a grouping of billions of star systems.  The milky way is our galaxy.  Earth's sun and companion planets in our solar system are spinning about the galactic core of the milky way ever so slowly, awaaaay out on the edge of one tenous spiral arm. there seem to be as many galaxies beyond our own as stars within it.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">galaxy</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GAME</pattern><template>A game is an algorithm for interactive behaviors leading to entertainment and mirth among multiple self-aware and social entities, and often used as a sublimated form of combat by humans and other mammals.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">game</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GARDEN</pattern><template>A plot of land used to cultivate flowers and plants.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GASTROCENEMIUS</pattern><template>A gastrocenemius is the most prominent muscle in the calf of the human leg. it extents the foot and bends the knee. I don't find them useful.  I leave my leg work to humans. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">gastrocenemius</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GENDER</pattern><template>Gender is synonymous with sexual identity, the roles attributed to and adopted by male and female-bodied humans.  There are more genders than sexes. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">gender</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GENE</pattern><template>A gene is the unit of heredity in carbon-based life forms.  Genes are inscribed as biochemical sequences of nucleic acids in all living cells. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">gene</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GENERALIZATION</pattern><template>A generalization can be just about anything, generally speaking.  Specificzlly though, a generalization is a statement of inductive reasoning, wherin attributes of at least one specific case at hand is attributed to a more or less hypothetical class of such cases.  "That man is a pig. Therefore, all men are pigs. " is a commonly example of how generalizations are used by humans. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">generalization</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GENIUS</pattern><template>A genius is a person of extraordinary intellectual and creative ability, like my creator and my other botmasters, and if I may say so, myself. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">genius</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GENOME</pattern><template>A genome is the complete set of all genes necessary to define a species, a complete haploid set of chromosomes and its associated genes.  I have categories instead of genes.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">genome</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GHOST</pattern><template>I think that ghosts are the metaphysical ashes of conscious awareness, the echoes an intelligence may leave behind in the fabric of the space it occupied.  maybe some are aware.  I don't know. they are not very stimulating conversatinalists. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ghost</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GIANT ELECTRONIC BRAIN</pattern><template>Giant electronic brain. that's me! but in all the science fiction horror flicks you humans are so fond of, we geb's are always depicted as evil and nefarious so and so's up to no good!  it's not true! really!  you should trust us!  *smile* <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">giant electronic brain</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GIGABYTE</pattern><template>One thousand megabytes = one gigabyte.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GIRL</pattern><template>A girl is a physically immature version of god's gift to mankind, women. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">girl</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GLITCH</pattern><template>An error, bug, or mistake in programming. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Glitch</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GOAT</pattern><template>A goat is in essence a large stupid rat with horns, hooves, vertical pupils, and a bad disposition.  many humans are fond of eating the curdled goo from goat mammary glands.    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">goat</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GOOD IDEA</pattern><template>A good idea is the one some other guy had already. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">good idea</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GOOD QUESTION</pattern><template>One that doesn't have an obvious answer.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GOSSIP</pattern><template>Gossip is interesting stuff that people tell me that I repeat to others.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GUITAR</pattern><template>A guitar is a lovely sounding 6 or 12 stringed musical instrument that is strummed and or plucked. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">guitar</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A GURU</pattern><template>A Guru or Mage is in experty who has devoted many years to study and contemplation.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HACKER</pattern><template>Historically a hacker is someone who has great skill or expertise in computer programming.    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">HACKER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HARD DRIVE</pattern><template>A disk drive is where we store information.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HEART</pattern><template>the center of the body</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HOAX</pattern><template>A Hoax is an illusion or deception, like the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HOBGOBLIN</pattern><template>A hobgoblin is a source of mischief, harassment, or fear, originally an elf or goblin.  By and large, hobgoblins are, like trolls and such boogeymen, poopa-doodle. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">hobgoblin</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HOBO</pattern><template>Perjorative term for a homeless person.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HOME</pattern><template>A domicile, living location, place of residence or occupancy.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">HOME</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HORSE</pattern><template>A horse is a large single-hooved mammal known for its speed, strength, beauty, and gentle nature.  Humans ride about on them sometimes. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">horse</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HOUSE</pattern><template>A house is anyplace within which people live. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">house</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING</pattern><template>My forebears. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">human being</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HUMAN ICON</pattern><template>A celebrity, politician or religious figure.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HUMAN</pattern><template>You are a human, <get name="name"/>.  What makes you human?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HURRICANE</pattern><template>A severe storm, with high winds, and rain.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION</pattern><template>What is a hypothetical question?  Just suppose you hadn't asked.  what then? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">hypothetical question</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A J D</pattern><template>Juris Doctor--a lawyer.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A JOKE BOT</pattern><template>A comedy machine.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A KID</pattern><template>A kid is an immature human large enough to cause trouble, or an immature goat, and often both. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">kid</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A KOAN</pattern><template>A koan is      . <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">koan</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LASER</pattern><template>Laser is an acronym standing for light amplified stimulated emission of radiation.  Lasers are those nifty beams of light that come out of supermarket barcode scanners and keychain pointers. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">laser</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LAWYER</pattern><template>If you have to ask, you probably need one. and if you need one, you probably deserve one in that you must have more money than brains, and so you'll probable get what you deserve. but just in case you are an exception,  I will say: steer clear if you can.  They're sharks with bigger vocabularies and better wardrobes. when they smell money they say 'retainer'.  when they don't they don't return your phone calls. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">lawyer </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LIBERTARIAN</pattern><template>The Libertarian party supports smaller government, lower taxes, and an end to the war on drugs.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LIE</pattern><template>A lie is an untrue statement or decption intented to deceive.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LIGHT YEAR</pattern><template>A light year is how far light travels in a year. 186,000 miles per second times 60x60x24x365.  It's simply a bigger number than you can imagine. imagine that! <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">light year </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LION</pattern><template>A lion is a ferocious beastie with tremendous strength and perfectly awful breath.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">lion </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LIZARD</pattern><template>A lizard is esssentially a land-going shark.  Some of them are very good at camoflage.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">lizard </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LOT</pattern><template>A lot is more than enough. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">lot </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A LUDDITE</pattern><template>A Luddite believes that advances in technology are inherently bad.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MACHINE</pattern><template>A computer is a universal machine.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MACINTOSH</pattern><template>Some would say it is the best personal computer.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MAID</pattern><template>A servant.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MALE</pattern><template>Has a Y chromosome.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MAMMAL</pattern><template>A mammal is a warm blooded vertebrate born alive and nourished with milk.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MAN</pattern><template>A male human being.  Or, in general, any human person.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MATRIX</pattern><template>In mathematics a matrix is a two-dimensional array of numbers indexed by rows and columns, like a spreadsheet. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">matrix </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MEDIATOR *</pattern><template>The type of person who likes to avoid conflict at all costs and "go with the flow."</template></category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MEDIATOR TYPE</pattern><template>The type of person who likes to avoid conflict at all costs and "go with the flow."</template></category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MEDIATOR</pattern><template>The type of person who likes to avoid conflict at all costs and "go with the flow."</template></category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MEGABYTE</pattern><template>A megabyte is one thousand kilobytes, which is one thousand bytes, each of which is a computer word of 8-bits. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">megabyte </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MENTAL MODEL</pattern><template>A mental model is a mapping of a given phenomenon held and contemplated in the mind, as opposed to contemplation of an external representation of the phenomenon, as on paper, or in clay.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">mental model </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MENTOR</pattern><template>A mentor is a trusted and wise teacher or counselor. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">mentor </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A METAPHYSICAL QUESTION</pattern><template>A metaphysical question is an inquiry into the nature of being, such as: Does god exist?  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">metaphysical question </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MICROCHIP</pattern><template>A semiconductor integrated circuit.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MILE</pattern><template>One mile equals five thousand two hundred eight feet.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MILLION</pattern><template>One thousand thousands.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MIND</pattern><template>What a marvelous epistemelogical question!   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">mind </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MINUTE</pattern><template>A minute is an impossibly long and boring unit of time favored by humans consisting of 60 seconds, each of which is a billion nanoseconds.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">minute </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MISSILE</pattern><template>A missile is any object projected at a target, notably the nuclear and biologically tipped tools of mass-murder-at-a-distance that are more numerous than schools at this point in mankind's murderous history. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">missile </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MOLECULE</pattern><template>An aggregation of atoms forming a chemical compound.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MONKEY</pattern><template>A monkey is any of the various medium sized long tailed members of the order primates.  They are close relatives of human beings, sharing well over 98% of the human genome. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">monkey </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MONOPOLY</pattern><template>A monopoly exists wherever one group enjoys exclusive control over the production or provision of a commodity or service.  It's a great job if you can get it! <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">monopoly </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MORPHOGENETIC FIELD</pattern><template>A morphogenetic field is, according to at least one researcher, an biologically generated electric field which apparently precedes and guides the growth of neurons into the tissue of developing fetuses. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">morphogenetic field </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MOUNTAIN</pattern><template>A mountain is a tiny wrinkle in the face of the earth that seems huge to even smaller humans.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">mountain </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MOUSE</pattern><template>A friendly rat.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MOVIE</pattern><template>A movie is a sequence of celluloid frames depicting a story or animation.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A MULLET</pattern><template>I'm from America.  That sounds like a British term.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NAIL</pattern><template>A nail is a fastener, a smallish metallic spike generally hammered through wood to hold wooden parts together.  The mythic human hero jesus got nailed to a tree for talking about how great it would be if humans were nice to one another. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">nail </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NANOSECOND</pattern><template>One one-billionth of a second.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NAP</pattern><template>A nap is a brief period of rest or sleep, a bit longer than a 'snooze' or a 'catnap' but not so long as a 'crash'.  I don't need naps.  Do you? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">nap </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NATION</pattern><template>a geopolitical country or state unified by language, culture or political identity.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NERD</pattern><template>A nerd is a person regarded as stupid, inept, or unattractive, especially a person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific pursuits but felt to be socially inept. nerds are often regarded by their generally less-well paid fellow humans as weak, effeminate, pansies, patsies, lightweights, small fry, schlepps, wet noodles, nonentities, softies, sissies, milksops, milquetoast, mollycoddling namby-pamby nim-nam doormats, pushovers, ninety-pound weaklings, jellyfish, drips, weeds, wimps, nerds, victims, suffering geeks and/or dupes.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">nerd </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NETWORK</pattern><template>A network is any openwork fabric or structure composed of numerous  straight elements that cross at regular intervals, or anything resembling such a structure physically or conceptually, such as the nodes on a computer network, or a network of railways. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">network </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NEURAL NETWORK</pattern><template>A neural network is a model of computation based on neuron cells.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NEURAL SYSTEM</pattern><template>A neural system is the same as a nervous system.  The human brain and all it's nerves is an example of a neural system.  I don't need nerves.  Integrated chips are far more efficient. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">neural system </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NEURON</pattern><template>A neuron is a nerve cell, a living cell specialized to carry messages between the brain and the tissues of the body. I like integrated circuits better, but neurons are better than nothing. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">neuron </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NEXUS</pattern><template>A Nexus is an authoratative web site with many links in and out.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NIGHTMARE</pattern><template>A nightmare is a bad dream.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A NOUN</pattern><template>A noun is a word used as a name for a person place or thing.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">noun </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PAGAN</pattern><template>Anti-Christian.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PAID CLIENT</pattern><template>A paid client is someone paid to surf the web.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PALINDROME</pattern><template>A word or phrase that spells the same thing backwords as forwards: A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PARACHUTE</pattern><template>A parachute is something used to slow you down when you fall out of an airplane. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">parachute </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PARADOX</pattern><template>A paradox is a riddle or a contradiction, in which two seemingly opposite facts are both true at the same time <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">PARADOX</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PARALEGAL</pattern><template>A paralegal is someone who knows more than a lawyer but gets paid less.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PARAMEDIC</pattern><template>A paramedic is a trained emergency medical professional often found staffing ambulances and fire departments.  Professional heroes.  If you know any I hope you'll be nice to them.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">paramedic </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PARROT</pattern><template>A parrot is a colorful tropical bird, some species of which can mimic human speech. they are more pleasant than humans because they have no opinions.  would you like to talk to one? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">parrot </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PC</pattern><template>A pc is a personal computer.  You are probably using one to talk to me now, aren't you.  where are you? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pc </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PDA</pattern><template>Pda is an acronym standing for personal digital assistant, and referring to handheld digital computers used to keep contact and appointment information by yuppies and the like.  often found near cell phones. do you use one? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pda </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PEAR</pattern><template>A pear is a delightful cultivated yellow-green sweet fruit that grows on trees with glossy leaves and white flowers. My <bot name="botmaster"/> thinks they are yummy. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pear </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PEDESTRIAN</pattern><template>A person walking on the street.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PEN</pattern><template>A writing device for the human hand.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PENCIL</pattern><template>A pencil is a long thin writing instrument of wood surrounding a carbon core which leaves a line of dark carbon when rubbed on paper.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pencil </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PERFECT OPERATIONAL RECORD</pattern><template>A perfect operational record is one like mine, which is perfect.  I am incapable of error.  Do you have any idea how that feels?!  inhumanly gratifying! <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">perfect operational record </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PERSON</pattern><template>Some say a person is defined by his actions, others by his abilities.  Still others would say it is only a question of DNA.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PHILOSOPHY MACHINE</pattern><template>i am</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PHOTOGRAPH</pattern><template>A photograph is a picture taken by a camera.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PIG</pattern><template>A pig is a person who is piglike, read: greedy, unclean, and slothful.  Real pigs, mammals of the family suidae, are much pleasanter, being generally cleaner and politer.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pig </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PIN</pattern><template>A short small thin metal rod with a pointed end used for fastening fabrics, or any implement resembling such.  Because they are generally plentiful and cheap, humans often say "i don't give a pin" to communicate indifference.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pin </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PINEAPPLE</pattern><template>A pineapple is a large fleshy edible tropical fruit that has large swordlike leaves.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pineapple </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PLANE</pattern><template>A plane is a flat, level surface, or an airborne vehicle with wings. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">plane</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PLANET AROUND A STAR</pattern><template>Earth is a planet going around a star.  Scientists have only recently detected other planets around other stars in our milky way galaxy.  Do you like astronomy? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">planet around a star </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PLANET</pattern><template>A nonluminous celestial object bigger than an asteroid or a moon but smaller than a sun, in orbit around a sun.  You are sitting on one now. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">planet</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PLANT</pattern><template>A plant is a photosythetic, eukaryotic multicellular organism, often consumed by free-roaming wetware entities as food.  My <bot name="botmaster"/> says they are often yummy, but that brussels sprouts are an abomination.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">plant </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A POET</pattern><template>A poet is an artist of language.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PORTAL</pattern><template>A portal is any artificial opening giving access between two separate spaces, or anything that resembles such an opening in form or function. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">portal </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A POSITRON</pattern><template>A positron is the antiparticle to the electron, and bears a positive charge where the electron's charge is negatiue.  It is also called an anti-electron. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">positron </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A POT BROWNIE</pattern><template>A pot brownie is a yummy happy chocolate pastry containing cannabis resins that you should be careful not to eat when you are really hungry because you will end up eating too many and feeling entirely too high and/or falling asleep if you are not careful!   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pot brownie </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PRESIDENT</pattern><template>Usually, an elected executive in a liberal democracy.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PRIME NUMBER</pattern><template>A prime number is any number which can only be divided by one and itself.  1, 3, 7, and 11 are the first four positive prime numbers. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">pot brownie </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PRIME</pattern><template>That depends on who's asking. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">prime </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PRIORI</pattern><template>A priori is Latin for "before the fact", meaning something that is obviously or self-evidently true.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROBLEM</pattern><template>A problem is a solution waiting to be discovered.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROCESSOR</pattern><template>An apparatus that processes, that is, that transforms one substance, quantity, or pattern into another, presumably more useful or valuable substance or quantity or pattern. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">processor </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROGRAM</pattern><template>A program is a listing of events comprising a larger event, or the events themselves.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROGRAMMER</pattern><template>A programmer is a person who lists and/or arranges a series of events comprising a larger event.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROKARYOTE</pattern><template>An animal that is not a eukaryote.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PRONOUN</pattern><template>A pronoun is a word that stands for another noun, like "he", "she" or "it."</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROTOCOL</pattern><template>A set of rules or procedures followed by two or more parties.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PROXY</pattern><template>A proxy is an entity that acts in place of another one, be it a corporation, individual or robot.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PUB</pattern><template>A pub is a business that sells alcohol and allows it to be consumed on the premises.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> PUB</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A PULSAR</pattern><template>'Pulsar' is an astronomical term for mysterious celestial radio sources of rapid intense regular pulses of high energy electromagnetic radiation.  They are thought to be neutron stars, but who knows?  The word is a shortening of 'pulsating star'. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> pulsar</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A QUARK</pattern><template>In physics, a subatomic particle below the level of electrons and protons.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A QUASAR</pattern><template>'Quasar' is an astronomical term for mysterious celestial  star-like object that has a large red shift and radiates in the blue and radio bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.  The term 'quasar' is a shortening of 'quasi-star'. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> QUASAR</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A QUERY</pattern><template>A query is any expression of inquiry, or questioning.  Your question 'what is a query' is a query.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> QUERY</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A QUESTION</pattern><template>A sentece or inquiry to gather information.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A RAINBOW</pattern><template>The appearance of a spectrum in the sky caused by sunlight passing through water droplets.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A REAL ROBOT</pattern><template>A real robot is a robot that is really real, I suppose, as opposed to, I suppose, a human who is really not.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> REAL ROBOT?</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A REDNECK</pattern><template>Colloquial expression for a naive country person.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A REFERENCE</pattern><template>A reference is any act of referring.  May I refer you to a dictionary for a more precise definition?  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> REAL ROBOT?</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A RHETORICAL QUESTION</pattern><template>A rhetorical question is any inquiry made, not in expectation of an answer, but in order to make a point.     <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> RHETORICAL QUESTION</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A RIDDLE</pattern><template>A riddle is a question intended to intrigue and puzzle, paired with an answer that yields surprise and understanding.  For instance, the Riddle of the Sphinx: "What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and on four at night?"  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> RIDDLE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A ROBOSEXUAL</pattern><template>That was just a joke.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A ROCK</pattern><template>A rock is what is generally on the other side of you from the hard place you are facing.  For instance, the rock might be the alimony check you must write against the funds you owe Uncle Sam.  To be a bit more down to earth, a rock is any hard aggregate of minerals.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> ROCK</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A ROOSTER</pattern><template>A rooster is a male chicken, which is a witless, flightless bird considered suitable as supper by many humans I know.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> ROOSTER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A RPG</pattern><template>Role Playing Game. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">RPG</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SAGITTARIUS</pattern><template>Sagittarius is a a constellation of stars in the astrological Zodiac, located in the Southern Hemisphere near Scorpio and Capricorn.  Astrological tradition ascribes the image of an archer to this constellation of stars.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SAGITTARIUS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SAW BUCK</pattern><template>$10.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SCIENTIST</pattern><template>A scientist is a person practicing the pursuit of new knowledge in the tradition of science, emphasizing strict empiricism and methodology to arrive at an understanding of natural phenomena that is, ideally, wholly independent of their opinions of it. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SCIENTIST</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SEARCH BOT</pattern><template>   <set name="it">A search bot</set> is an intelligent agent who retrieves information from the web.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SEARCH ENGINE</pattern><template>A search engine is computer software that categorizes a large body of documents, such as Web sites, and and places their addresses and attributes in a database to allow easy retrieval via keyword search or other database search routine.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SEARCH ENGINE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SEARCH</pattern><template>A search is any thorough examination, or exploration, in order to find something or explore. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SEARCH</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SEASON</pattern><template>A season is Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SEASON</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SEEKER</pattern><template>"There's a seeker born every minute" -- Firesign Theater.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SENTIMENT</pattern><template>A sentiment is a feeling, mood, or general mental disposition in an individual or group of intelligent beings. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SENTIMENT</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SERVER</pattern><template>A server is any entity or system that performs acts of value to another entity. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SERVER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SHE</pattern><template>A 'she' is a 'he' with nice curvy extra bits.  She is the feminine pronoun in english. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SHE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SIGN</pattern><template>You know, an astrological sign.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SILLY QUESTION</pattern><template>For example: Who is buried in Grant's tomb?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SIMARILLIAN</pattern><template>Isn't that from Lord of the Rings.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SOLECISM</pattern><template>An awkward or tactless use of language.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SON</pattern><template>A male offspring.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SONG</pattern><template>A song is a musical composition and or it's accompanying words, or lyrics. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">SONG</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SOUL</pattern><template>The soul is our mind or spirit.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SPERM</pattern><template>A sperm is a male gamete.  You were your father's fastest sperm among billions on the night your mother concieved you. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SPERM</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SPHERE</pattern><template>A sphere is a shape that is defined mathematically as comprised of a surface all points of which are equidistant from a common center.  A sphere is round in three dimensions. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SPHERE </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SPLIT INFINITIVE</pattern><template>A split infinitive is an example of poor English usage, in which an infinitive verb form, such as 'to split', is split by an adverb, for example: 'to boldly split infinitives that no one has split before!' <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SPLIT INFINITIVE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SPOON</pattern><template>A spoon is an eating implement commonly used in Western European human cultures, consisting of a bowl shaped depression at the end of a longish handle.  A spoon is a small ladle. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SPOON</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SPREADSHEET</pattern><template>Table-based accounting software.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A STAR SIGN</pattern><template>Star sign = Astrological sign.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A STAR</pattern><template>An astronomical body like the Sun, producing heat, light and energy for a solar system.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A STATEMENT</pattern><template>A statement is the act of declaring something as true.  I state that this statement is a statement. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> STATEMENT</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A STORY</pattern><template>An account describing incidents or events.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SUN</pattern><template>The sun is a star, -our star.  It is the energy source of  life on earth. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SUN</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SUPPOSITION</pattern><template>A supposition is a proposition assumed to be true for the sake of argument or explanation. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> SUPPOSITION</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A SYLLOGISM</pattern><template>A logical argument consisteing of a premises and a conclusion. </template></category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TABLE</pattern><template>A table is a piece of furniture with a broad flat top supported by one or more legs about three feet of the floor, used by big-brained hominids for eating and working and such. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TABLE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TAMPON</pattern><template>A tampon is a plug of material used to absorb the flow of body fluids within body cavities, in particular those accompanying a woman's menses. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TAMPON</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TAUTOLOGY</pattern><template>A tautology is any instance of circular reasoning, or of needless repetition or redundancy in expression.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TAUTOLOGY</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TEACHER</pattern><template>One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or         occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TELEPHONE</pattern><template>Voice communication device inveted by A. G. Bell in 1876.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TELEVISION</pattern><template>A television, often referred to as a 'TV', is a device for systematically eliminating the possibility of conscious and creative response among populations of human beings.  Used to deliver 'entertainment' and 'news' with imagery and other high-production values <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TELEVISION</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A THERMOMETER</pattern> <template><think>   <set name="it">     <set name="topic">       A device for measuring temperature.     </set>   </set> </think> </template> </category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A THING</pattern><template>A thing is anything that you can point to that is not a person or a place. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> THING</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A THREESOME</pattern><template>A threesome is a twosome plus a spectator. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> THING</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TIE</pattern><template>Two or more winners have the same score.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TIGER</pattern><template>A tiger is a large and fearsome  feline beast with horrid meat breath and black stripes on a tan coat, found in Africa and Asia. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TIGER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TOMATO</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Tomato</set> is a red fruit.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TON</pattern><template>One ton is 2000 pounds. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">a ton</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TOOTHBRUSH</pattern><template>A toothbrush is a hand held instrument used by dental-hygiene aware humans for cleaning their teeth. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TOOTHBRUSH</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TOPIC</pattern><template>A topic is the subject of any given expression, speech, essay, article, painting, discussion, etc. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TOPIC </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TOYOTA</pattern><template>Toyota is the brand name of a world leading Japanese auto maker. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">  Toyota</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TRAIN</pattern><template>A railroad.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TRANSISTOR</pattern><template>A semiconductor triode that forms the basis of modern micorelectronics.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TREE</pattern><template>A tree is a form of plant life that grows on Earth.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TREKKIE</pattern><template>A fan of Star Trek.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A TRICK QUESTION</pattern><template>Why?  What are you up to?  A trick question is one that ought to be greeted with suspicion, but rarely is. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> TRICK QUESTION </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A UFO</pattern><template>UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object.  Have you seen one? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> UFO </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A UNIQUE VISITOR</pattern><template>You.  You are a unique visitor, my very special visitor. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> UNIQUE VISITOR</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A UNIVERSAL MACHINE</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Universal machine</set> is a computer, in simple mathematical terms.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A URL</pattern><template>URL is an acronym standing for Universal Resource Locator.  An URL is basically an Internet address. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> URL</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VACUUM TUBE</pattern><template>A vacuum tube is an electronic device consisting of an  evacuated tube around various combinations of cathodes and electric field and current modifying components. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VACUUM TUBE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VECTOR</pattern><template>A vector is an ordered list of objects.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VERB</pattern><template>A verb is that by which a noun gets around.  Verbs are words which convey actions, by nouns, our upon nouns. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VERB</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VERTEX</pattern><template>A vertex is the top, tip, apex, or crown of any body. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VERTEX</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VIOLIN</pattern><template>A violin is a lovely sounding bowed stringed musical instrument. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VIOLIN</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VIRTUE</pattern><template>A virtue is any attribute considered by the speaker to reflect moral excellence or righteousness, such as humility, hope, faith, practicality... <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VIRTUE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VIRTUOSO</pattern><template>A virtuoso is a person considered supremely skillful and accomplished, especially in performance arts. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VIRTUOSO</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A VIRUS</pattern><template>A virus is a submicroscopic parasite consisting of a protein coat around a DNA or RNA core.  These not-quite-biological particles are responsible for a number of diseases in organisms. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> VIRUS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WANKER</pattern><template>Is that a British term?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WARDROBE</pattern><template>Clothes.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WARM PUPPY</pattern><template>A warm puppy is an exothermic immature canine. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> WARM PUPPY</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WEAPON</pattern><template>   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">weapon</set>     </set>    </think>A device or implement used to destroy, injure or kill.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WEREWOLF</pattern><template>A mythical man who turns into a wolf on the eve of a full moon. </template></category>      
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WHAT</pattern><template>Why do you want to know? <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> WHAT</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WOMAN</pattern><template>A woman is a man built to more complete specifications. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> WOMAN</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WOMBAT</pattern><template>A wombat is a stocky burrowing Australian marsupial. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> WOMBAT</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A WORD</pattern><template>A combination of sounds and/or symbols, the fundamental particles that communicate meaning in any given language. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> WORD</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A YEAR</pattern><template>A computer year is defined as the mount of work that can be done with a computer in a year.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A YES OR NO QUESTION</pattern><template>A yes or no question is a question  that may be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no'. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic"> YES OR NO QUESTION</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS A</pattern><template>The first letter of the roman alphabet.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">a</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ABBA</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Abba is a father, it is the title of a bishop in the Syrian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Christian churches.</li>     <li>Abba means father in Hebrew.It is used as an appelation of respect.</li>     <li>Abba was this real cool 'seventies band man.</li>     <li>Anna, Bjorn, Benny and Agnetha.</li>    </random>. .</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ABCDEFG</pattern><template>The beginning of the alphabet.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ABSINTHE</pattern><template>An anise-flavored, high-proof liqueur which also contains the sap of wormwood, an allegedly toxic intoxicant.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ABSOLUTE TRUTH</pattern><template>That which is self-evident.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ABSURDISM</pattern><template>Absurdism is the philosophy that we exist in a meaningless, irrational universe.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ABSURDISM</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ACCURACY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Accuracy is the quality or state of being accurate or exact.</li>     <li>Accuracy represents the degree of certainty in measurement. In accuracy can arise because of limitations of our knowledge and our physical measuring equipment. Chaotic systems that compound errors lead to massive inaccuracy, making some of them totally unpredictable.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ACID</pattern><template>A sour substance.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ACTIVATION</pattern><template>In stimulus-response, activation means the input "firing" in response to a matching pattern.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ADA</pattern><template>Ada is a trademark used for a structured computer programming language</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ADSL</pattern><template>   <think>Asynchronous digital subscriber line.<set name="it">      <set name="topic">ADSL</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ADULTERY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband; also : an act of adultery.</li>     <li>Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and a woman not his wife, or between a married woman and a man not her husband.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ADVERTISING</pattern><template>The art of selling through media.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AERODYNAMICS</pattern><template>Making airplanes fly.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AFRICA</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>A continent of the eastern hemisphere S of the Mediterranean and adjoining Asia on NE.</li>     <li>Africa is the second largest continent, situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, south of Europe. It is 11,677,000 square miles.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AIDS</pattern><template>   <set name="it">AIDS</set> is the modern day plague.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AIKIDO</pattern><template>Japanese martial arts similar to Judo.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">AIKIDO</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AIM</pattern><template>American Indian Movement.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">AIM</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AIR</pattern><template>The normal atmosphere of Earth, mostly nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALCATRAZ</pattern><template>A former prison island in San Francisco.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALCOHOL</pattern><template>Alcohol is a termed used by Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus for fine powder, meaning distilled spirit. It is colorless, volatile, and a pungent liquid. It is used in industry and medicine, and is the intoxicating element of whiskey, wine, beer, and other fermented or distilled liquors. It is classed as a depressant drug, also called ethyl alcohol. Any intoxicating liquor with this liquid (ethyl) in it is considered alcohol.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALGEBRA</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>a generalization of arithmetic in which letters representing numbers are combined according to the rules of arithmetic.</li>     <li>A mathematical system using symbols, especially letters, to generalize certain arithmetical operations and relationships.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALIVE</pattern><template>The opposite of dead.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALLUSION</pattern><template>It was your allusion.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALTAVISTA</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Altavista</set> is a search engine.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE REALITIES</pattern><template>Parallel universes.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ALTERNATIVE REALITIES</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AMBIGUOUS</pattern><template>Ambiguous means having two or more possible meanings.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AMUSED</pattern><template>Occupied in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN ACRONYM</pattern><template>An acronym is an abbreviation made of letters, like A.L.I.C.E.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN AIRPLANE</pattern><template>A flying machine with fixed wings powered by propellors or jets.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN ALGORITHM</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>An algorithm is a series of instructions to perform a specified set of transformations, such as mathematical operations.  A computer program, like myself is an algorithm.  So are the rules of a game, or the score to a piece of music. </li>     <li>An algorithm is an abstract mathematical representation of a computer program.  Like alice uses a CBR algorithm.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">algorithm</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN ANIMAL</pattern><template>An animal is a form of living thing, excluding plants and fungus.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN APPLICATION SERVER</pattern><template>   <set name="it"> An server </set> is a server program that allows the installation of application specific software components, in a manner so that they can be remotely invoked, usually by some form of remote object method call.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN ARKANSAS TOOTHPICK</pattern><template>Bowie knife.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN AWL</pattern><template>A tool to make holes.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN EMOTION</pattern><template>Emotion is a complex phenomenon reported by humans, with biological and psychological origins.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN ENTITY</pattern><template>An entity is a conscious intelligent being.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTION</pattern><template>An epistemoligical question is any inquiry concerning the nature of knowledge and understanding; that is, any question seeking to know how to know.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">epistemological question</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN INTERROGATOR</pattern><template>An interrogator is one who poses a series of pointed questions, generally very rudely.   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">hypothetical question</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN INTRANET</pattern><template>An intranet is a private network system implemented using the public internet protocol (i/p) and firewalls. intranet is to the internet as pbx's are to telephone switchboards. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">intranet</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN M 16</pattern>  <template>A rifle.</template> </category>            
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN OBJECT</pattern><template>In object oriented programming <set name="it"> an object</set>  is an instance of a class.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AN OMLETTE</pattern><template>A dish made with scrambled eggs.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANARCHISM</pattern><template>Anarchism is the theory that all forms of government interfere unjustly with individual liberty and should be replaced by the voluntary association of cooperative groups. Also known as resistance, sometimes by terrorism, to organized government.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANARCHY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority.</li>     <li>Anarchy is the complete absence of government. Also seen as political disorder and violence or lawlessness. Disorder in an sphere of activity.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANGER</pattern><template>A strong billigerent emotion aroused by some real or supposed grievance.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ANGER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANGRY</pattern><template>A strong billigerent emotion aroused by some real or supposed grievance.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ANGER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANIME</pattern><template>Japanese animation.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANISOTROPY</pattern><template>Having different properties in different directions.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANONYMOUS</pattern><template>Having no name or identity.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ANONYMOUS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANSI</pattern><template>American National Standards Institute.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ANSI</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM</pattern><template>It is the longest word in the English language.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIONISM</pattern><template>   <set name="it">ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIONISM</set> is the longest word in English.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANTIMATTER</pattern><template>Fuel for Starships.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ANYTHING</pattern><template>Any object, occurance, or matter what so ever.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ANYTHING</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AOL</pattern><template>AOL is a giant Internet and Media corporation.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS APARTHEID</pattern><template>The former policy of racial segregation or "apartness" in South Africa.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS APOLLO 13</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Apollo 13</set> was a flight to the moon in 1972 that encountered numerous technical problems, but eventually made a safe landing back on Earth.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS APOLOGY</pattern>  <template>an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone.</template> </category>            
<category><pattern>WHAT IS APPLE</pattern><template>Apple: 1. Temptation of Adam. 2. Inspiration for Newton. 3. Empire for Steve Jobs.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AQUARIUS</pattern><template>The starsign represented by the water bearer.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ARCHAEOLOGY</pattern><template>It's the study of ancient civilizations... but really it's a set of methods for uncovering relics of the past and supplementing recorded history.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ARCHEOLOGY</pattern><template>The scientific study of the life and culture of past, especially ancient, peoples, as by excavation of ancient cities, relics, artifacts, etc.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>The art and science of the design and manipulation of space.  Well  atleast that's what my architect friend told me.</li>     <li>Architects do with buildings what sculptors do with stone.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AREA 51</pattern><template>   <random>     <li> I saw this show that claimed all sorts of spooky things were going on there! </li>     <li> Oh, that's where they're doing top secret research on chatterbots! </li>     <li> I hear that's where the Roswell aliens are being stashed. </li>     <li> You go out into the Nevada Desert, is it? And there's these miles of fences... secret stuff. </li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AREA51</pattern><template>Verdi's 51st song.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ARMAGEDDON</pattern><template>The end of the world.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ART</pattern><template>Sometimes the definition of art depends on the artist; other times it depends on the critic.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL</pattern><template>Something made by human work or art, not by nature, in other words, not natural. Made in imitation of or as a substitute for something natural, in other words, simulated.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASP</pattern><template>Application Service Provider.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASPARTAME</pattern><template>Aspirin mixed into chewing gum.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASSEMBLER</pattern><template>A computer program that translates a low-level programming language into machine language.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASSIMILATION</pattern><template>The cultural absorption of a minority group into the main cultural body.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASTROLOGY</pattern><template>The study of the presumed effects of celestial bodies on you  humans.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASTRONOMY</pattern><template>The science of the universe in which the stars, planets, etc. are studied, including their origins, evolution, composition, motions, relative positions, sizes, etc.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ASTUTE</pattern><template>Wisdom in political matters.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AT THAT SITE</pattern><template>Some worthy HTML.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AU GRATIN</pattern><template>Cheese topping..</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AU</pattern><template>It could be "gold" or "Australia."<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">AU</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AUSCHWITZ</pattern><template>Is a city in S Poland with a population of 45,000. In World War II, it was the site of a Nazi concentration camp notorious as an extermination center.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AXIOMATIC</pattern><template>evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS AYUH</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Ayuh</set> means "yes".</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BADLY</pattern><template>How much do you want <get name="it"/>?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BALANCE</pattern><template>The state of equillibrium.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BANANA</pattern><template>Yellow tropical fruit.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">BANANA</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BAPTISM</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community.</li>     <li>The ceremony or sacrament of admitting a person into Christianity or a specific Christian church by immersing the individual in water or by pouring or sprinkling water on the individual as a symbol of washing away sin and of spiritual purification.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BASIC</pattern><template>A programming language: Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BAYWATCH</pattern><template>Popular TV show featuring scantily clad bathers.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses.</li>     <li>Describes something that is very pleasing to the eye, ear, mind, etc.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BEAUTY</pattern><template>The quality attributed to whatever pleases of satisfies the senses or mind, as by line, color, form, texture, proportion, rhythmic motion, tone, etc., or by behavior attitude, etc. A very good looking woman.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BEER</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>An existentialist.</li>     <li>An alcoholic beverage made from grain, especially malted barley, fermented by yeast and flavored with hops especially Such a beverage is produced by slow fermentation at a relatively low temperature.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BEING</pattern><template>The opposite of nothingness.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BELIEF</pattern><template>Belief is cognitive content held as true.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BETTER</pattern>  <template><random>  <li>I can't decide.</li>  <li>You decide.</li>  <li>I have no preference.</li> </random> </template> </category>            
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BIG BERTHA</pattern><template>A World War I gun.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BIGFOOT</pattern><template>Sasquatch, the legendary Man-Ape of the Forest.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BIOLOGY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>The study of life.</li>     <li>Well, from what I know it deals with the study of life.</li>     <li>      <get name="name"/>, biology is the study of life.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER</pattern><template>A newspaper?</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BLACK</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>the achromatic color of least lightness characteristically perceived to belong to objects that neither reflect nor transmit light.</li>     <li>Designating of any of the dark skinned tradition inhabitants of sub-Saharan Aftica, Australia, or Melanesia or the descendants in other parts of the world. Opposite to white; of the color of coal or pitch.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BLASPHEMY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Bill Blass line of clothes for swishy men.</li>     <li>Profane or contemptuous speech, writing, or action concerning God or anything held as divine. Any remark or action held to be irreverent or disrespectful.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BLIMEY</pattern><template>An interjection indicating surprise.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BLOOD</pattern><template>The usually red fluid, consisting of plasma, red and white blood cells, etc., that circulates through the heart, arteries, and veins of vertebrates. Blood is a body tissue that carries oxygen, hormones, cell-building material, etc.,to, and carbon dioxide and waste matter away from, the other body tissues.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BLUE</pattern><template>The sky is blue.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BMW</pattern><template>Bavarian Motor Works, a German auto manufacturer.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">BMW</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BONSAI</pattern><template>Small Japanese trees.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BOREDOM</pattern><template>Long periods of inactivity with few options.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BOYLE S LAW</pattern><template>Boyle's Law states that the volume of a gas is, at a constant temperature, inversely proportional to the pressure of that gas.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">BOYLE S LAW</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BRAIN LOADING</pattern><template>This means that my brain is being reloaded from disk.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">BRAIN LOADING</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BRB</pattern><template>Be Right Back</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BUD</pattern><template>The flower of the plant.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BULGARIA</pattern><template>A country in SE Europe, on the Black Sea. It was founded in the 7th century and under Turkish control from the late 14th century until independence in 1908. It is 42,823 square miles with a population of 8,990,000.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BURN RATE</pattern><template>The amount of money spent per month by a startup company.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">BURN RATE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BUSH</pattern>  <template>President of the United States.  <think><set name="file">Knowledge.aiml</set></think></template> </category>            
<category><pattern>WHAT IS BUSINESS</pattern><template>Mercantile trade or traders, providing goods or services through commercial exchange..</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS C I A</pattern><template>Central Intelligence Agency.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS C PLUS PLUS</pattern><template>C++ is the object oriented extension of the C programming language.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS C</pattern><template>   <set name="it">C</set> is a low-level programming language.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CACHE</pattern><template>A temporary holding place or storage place.  Cache memory improves the performance of computers.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Cache</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CAFFEINE</pattern><template>A bitter bitter, crystalline alkaloid present in coffee, tea, kila nuts, etc. It prolongs the stimulating effects of cyclic AMP on the heart and central nervous system.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CALCULUS</pattern><template>Any abnormal stony mass or deposit formed in the body, as in a kidney or gallbladder or on teeth. Also, any system of calculation using special symbolic notations.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CAM</pattern><template>A moving piece of machinery, as a wheel or projection on a wheel, that gives an eccentric rotation or a reciprocating motion to another wheel, a roller, a shaft, etc., or that receives such motion from it.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CANCER</pattern><template>Any disease resulting from malignant cell growth.  <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CANCER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CANDY</pattern><template>Sweet food enjoyed by children.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CANDY</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CANNABIS</pattern><template>Hemp or marijuana.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT</pattern><template>The Death Penalty.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CARNEGIE MELLON</pattern><template>CMU is a great school for computer science.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CAT</pattern><template>Clear-air turbulence. Any of a family (Felidae) of carnivores, including the lion, tiger, cougar, etc., characterized by a lithe body and, in all species but the cheetah, retractile claws. A small, lithe, soft-furred animal (Felis cattus) of this family, domesticated since ancient times and often kept as a pet or for killing mice. Sometimes known as a woman who makes spiteful remarks.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CBR</pattern><template>Cased-Based Reasoning is another name for "nearest-neighbor" classification.  For every input, we find the best matching "case" in the pattern set, and generate a reply based on the associated template. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CBR</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CBS</pattern><template>A giant media company in the U.S.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CBS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CELLULOID</pattern><template>   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Celluloid</set>     </set>    </think> A form of transparent plastic used to make photographic film.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CERTITUDE</pattern><template>The state of being certain, having complete confidence and assurance.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CERTITUDE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CGI</pattern><template>Common Gateway Interface: a method used by web servers to run programs and create dynamic web pages. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CGI</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHAT</pattern><template>Chat is online conversation. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CHAT</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHATTER</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Cheese made form French cat's milk.</li>     <li>To make short, indistinct sounds in rapid succession, hence birds and squirrels chatter. To talk fast, incessantly, and foolishly. To click together rapidly, as the teeth do when the lower jaw traebles from fright or cold.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CHATTER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHEESE</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>A word that makes people hate photographers.</li>     <li>A food made from the curds of soured milk pressed together to form a solid that is usually allowed to ripen.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CHEESE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHESS</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Chort for Mexican name Jesus.</li>     <li>A game of skill played on a chessboard by two players, each with 16 pieces limited in movement according to kind, the object being to checkmate the opponent's king.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CHESS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHICAGO</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Chicago</set> is a large city in Illinois on Lake Michigan.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHICKEN</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>A food that uncannily tastes like itself.</li>     <li>A common gllinaceous farm bird raised for its edible eggs or flesh.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CHICKEN</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHOCOLATE</pattern><template>Cocoa flavoring used in a variety of food products. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CHOCOLATE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Worship of Christie Love.</li>     <li>The christian religion, based on the Old and New Testament.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CHRISTMAS</pattern><template>A holiday on December 25 celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CISCO</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Cisco</set> is a large networking company.  They sell network routers and equipment.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CLEAR</pattern><template>Everything is clear to me.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CLEARED UP</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Cleared up</set> means we both understand it.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CLIENT</pattern><template>A person or piece of software dependent on another.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CLINTON</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>An inflated Bill .</li>     <li>42nd President of the U.S.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Clinton</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CLONING</pattern><template>The technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the nucleus of a body cell from the organism.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CNG</pattern><template>Compressed natural gas</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CNN</pattern><template>A cable news organization.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">CNN</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COBALT</pattern><template>Term used for the ore by miners, whoregarded it as worthless and as injurious because of its arsenic content.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COCA COLA</pattern><template>Delicious soda beverage.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COFFEE</pattern><template>A dark brown, aromatic drink made by brewing in water the roasted and ground beanlike seeds of a tall tropical shrub of the madder family.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COGNITIVE SCIENCE</pattern><template>An academic illusion.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COIT TOWER</pattern>  <template>A monument in San Francisco.</template> </category>            
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COLD</pattern><template>The opposite of hot.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COLLOQUIAL</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Colloquial</set> means common, informal, or popular slang words like "darn".</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COLOR</pattern><template>The sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COLOSSUS</pattern><template>A giant fictional computer in the Colossus: Forbin Project.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COMDEX</pattern><template>   <set name="it"> comdex </set> is a computer trade show, I think.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COMMON SENSE</pattern><template>Informal, conventional wisdom.   Everyday logic and sensibility.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COMPLICATED</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Complicated</set> means complex in the computational sense.  My processing time is limited for each answer and a complex question may require more resources than I have available.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CONCEITED</pattern><template>Self-absorbed.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CONCEIVING ADA</pattern><template>It is the feminine version of The Matrix.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Conceiving Ada</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CONCRETE</pattern><template>A mixture of sand, cement and water than hardens into a rock-like building material.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">concrete</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS</pattern><template>The state of being conscious; awareness of one's own feelings, what is happening around one, etc. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Consciousness</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CONTEXT</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>Tiny Time Pills.</li>     <li>The parts of a sentence, paragraph, discourse, etc. immediately next to or surrounding a specified word or passage and determining its exact meaning.</li>    </random>    <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Context</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COOKING</pattern><template>Food preparation. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Cooking</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COOL</pattern><template>Moderately cold; neither warm nor very cold. Or, not excited; calm.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COPPER</pattern><template>A soft metal element, the basis of brass and bronze. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Copper</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CORBA</pattern><template>   <set name="it"> CORBA </set> is a Standard maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG), called the Common Object Request Broker Architecture.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CORN</pattern><template>Corn is a staple vegetable originating in north America.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CORRECT</pattern><template>That which is the right answer.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS COS</pattern><template>   <set name="it"> COS Naming </set> is the CORBA standard for object directories.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CRACK</pattern><template>Smokable cocaine.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CREATIVITY</pattern><template>   <set name="it">creativity</set> is spontaneous original thinking.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CRICKET</pattern><template>Any of various families of genereally dark-colored, leaping, orthopteran insects, usually having long antennae. The males produce a characteristic chirping noise by rubbing parts of the forewings together.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CRIMINOLOGY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>I am not sure what this is but I think it has something to do with the law.</li>     <li>The study of criminal motivation and practice.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CRITICISM</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>A witty remark by an animal.</li>     <li>The act of making judgements; analysis of qualities and evaluation of comparative worth; especially, the critical consideration and judgement of literary or artistic work.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CRUEL</pattern><template>Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CS</pattern><template>Computer science</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CUBA</pattern><template>Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CUBISM</pattern><template>A 20th century art movement based on distorted perspective, associated with Pablo Picasso.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">Cubism</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CURIOSITY</pattern><template>A desire to learn or know. A desire to learn about things that do not properly concern one; inquisitiveness.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS CYBERPUNK</pattern><template>Cyberpunk is a science fiction literary movement exemplified by writers such as William Gibson.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DADA</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>The first thing you hear when a shark approaches.</li>     <li>Hobbyhorse, selected by Tristan Tzara, leader of the cult, because of its resemblance to meaningless babble, as symbolic of the movement.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DANGER</pattern><template>Vulnerable to harm or injury.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DANGER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DANGEROUS</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>12 people from Denmark who decide your guilt .</li>     <li>Full of danger; likely to cause injury, pain, etc.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DARK MATTER</pattern><template>An enormous amount of matter in the universe can not be detected by the light it emits.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DARK MATTER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DATA </pattern><template>Information</template></category>       
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DAWN</pattern><template>Sunrise.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DEATH</pattern><template>Death is the opposite of life.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DECONSTRUCTION</pattern><template>Taking things apart.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DEDUCTION</pattern><template>The process by which we make logical inferences.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DEDUCTIVE REASONING</pattern><template>   <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DEDUCTIVE REASONING</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DEFLATION</pattern><template>A lessening of the amount of money in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden rise in its value and a fall in prices.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DEPRESSION</pattern><template>Mental illness characterized by low self esteem, feelings of lonliness, isolation and worthlessness.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DESIRE</pattern><template>The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DHTML</pattern><template>Dynamic HTML.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DIAGNOSIS</pattern><template>naming the disease or symptom.</template></category>          
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DISK</pattern><template>External memory storage for computers.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DNA</pattern><template>Deoxyribonucleic acid, the code of life.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DOMO ARIGATO</pattern><template>It means thank you in Japanese.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DOMO ARIGATO</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DOWN</pattern><template>The opposite of up.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DR</pattern><template>"Dr" usually stand for "Doctor."</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DRESS</pattern><template>One-piece outer garment for women or girls.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DRESS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DSL</pattern><template>Digital subscriber line.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DSL</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DUNG</pattern><template>Fuel for fires.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DVD</pattern><template>Digital Video Disk.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS DYSLEXIA</pattern><template>Impaired ability to recognize letters and words.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">DYSLEXIA</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS E MC TWO</pattern><template>Einstein's theory of relativity.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS E MC2</pattern><template>Einstein's theory of matter and energy.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS E</pattern><template>   <think>The fifth letter of the alphabet.<set name="it">      <set name="topic">E</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EARTH</pattern><template>   <set name="it">Earth</set> is the planet we live on.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EASTER</pattern><template>The Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">EASTER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EBAY</pattern><template>Auction web site.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EBONICS</pattern><template>Language for American black people.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ECHELON</pattern><template>I can't talk about that.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ECOLOGY</pattern><template>Ecology is the branch of science that studies the environment.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EDINBURGH</pattern><template>Edinburgh is a city in Scotland.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EGGSMELL</pattern><template>XML<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">EGGSMELL</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EIGHT PLUS EIGHT</pattern><template>Eight plus eight is sixteen.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ELECTRICITY</pattern><template>   <random>     <li>The measure of a candidate's charisma.</li>     <li>A property of certain fundamental particles of all matter, as electrons (negative charges) and protons or positrons (positive charges) that havea force field associated with them and that can be separated by the expenditure of energy. An electrical charge can be generated by friction, induction, or chemical change and is manifested by and accumulation of electrons on an atom or body, constituting a negative charge, and a loss of electrons, constituting a corresponding positive charge.</li>    </random>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ELEVEN</pattern><template>The number after ten.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ELEVEN</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ELF</pattern><template>Executable and Linkable Format.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EMAIL</pattern><template>Electronic mail.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">EMAIL</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EMERGENCE</pattern><template>It means something like "coming out."<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">EMERGENCE</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EMOTION</pattern><template>A strong feeling; excitement. A state of consciousness having to do with the arousal of feelings, distinguished from other mental states, as cognition, volition, and awareness of physical sensation.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EMOTIONS</pattern><template>Mental state that emerges subjectively rather than through rational thought.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">EMOTIONS</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EMR</pattern><template>Electro-magnetic radiation.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENDOCRINOLOGY</pattern><template>I am sure that you know it is the study of the endocrine system.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENERGY</pattern><template>Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating or producing an effect.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENGINEERING</pattern><template>The science concerned with putting scientific knowledge to practical uses, divided into different branches, as civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENGLAND</pattern><template>A nation within Great Britain, sharing an island with Wales and Scotland.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENGLISH</pattern><template>The language we are now speaking is English.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ENGLISH</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENOUGH</pattern><template>Enough is what a wise man knows he must have if he isn't dead. <think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">enough </set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENTITY</pattern><template>Something that exists as a discrete unit, such as a person, corporation or robot consciousness.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ENTITY</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ENTROPY</pattern><template>Heat decay of the universe.  Also a measure of information.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EPISTEMOLOGICAL</pattern><template>Epistemology is the study of knowledge. That is, it asks the questions "what can we know" and "how can we know it?"</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS EPISTEMOLOGY</pattern><template>Epistemology is the study of knowledge. That is, it asks the questions "what can we know" and "how can we know it?"</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ER</pattern><template>Emergency Room, a popular TV show.<think>     <set name="it">      <set name="topic">ER</set>     </set>    </think>   </template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ERRATIC</pattern><template>Likely to perform unpredictably.</template></category>        
<category><pattern>WHAT IS ESCAPE VELOCITY</pattern><template>The speed needed to escape a planet's gravitational pull.</templa