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human
*body relaxes* Hello!  Are you a tennis fan or do you play?
gpt
No, my dad used to, though. It seems like it's too intense for me
human
*eyes brighten* I only tried playing in college to kill time.  I stunk up the courts I was so bad.  The longest tennis match in history went on for over 11 hours and was spread over 2 days.  Crazy.
gpt
*tilts head* Was that at one of the big competitions, like an open or Wimbledon?
human
*eyes brighten* I'm not sure.  They once had to use a helicopter to dry the grass courts for the 1969 US open.  Bet that dried it fast.
gpt
That was the year after the first open when a black player won. But no black player has won since
human
Wow.  I didn't know that.  Polo shirts were originally invented by a tennis player and were later adopted by polo players.  Interesting.
gpt
So maybe we should really be calling them tennis shirts? Just like sneakers are often called tennis shoes
human
*smiles* lol  Good point!  They say that 5000 year old shoes perform better than modern shoes.  I question that... lol
gpt
Same. How do people know? How many pairs have survived since then? And what constitutes better performance?
human
I have no idea.  I bet those would be some smelly shoes though!  They say putting a dry tea bag inside smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odor.  I'll have to try that to try that on my smelly stinky shoes. Lol lol
gpt
*takes a step forward* Oh wow, I never knew that. I actually have a huge problem with that, so that will help. Surprised I didn't learn that when I googled solutions to that problem (which I've done like 100 times)
human
I'm a big googler myself.  A single google search requires more computing power than it took to send astronauts to the moon. Crazy how far technology has come since then.
gpt
I can't even begin to understand how that makes sense. Then again, I guess computing was done a lot by people by hand back in the 60's
human
*laughs* When google went down for 5 minutes in 2013 it took 40 percent of the web traffic with it.  I don't remember that.
gpt
*raises eyebrows* I don't remember that either, but it makes sense. Did you know that Google as a company officially prefers dogs over cats?!
human
*body relaxes* I didn't know that.  I know at one time they used hundreds of live goats to mow the lawns around their headquarters.  They really like their animals.
gpt
Yeah! I guess it wasn't too cost effective to do that with the goats, otherwise they'd keep doing it. Pretty energy efficient, though
human
*smiles* I agree!  Good was founded in 1998.  I could have sworn I remember using it before then.
gpt
I remember being told about it by a teacher in 1999 or 2000. Like I remember her writing it on the board and another teacher telling us it was an intentional misspelling of the number googol