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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 17:30:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 17:30:15 1985
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Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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  I believe that the story that everyone is thinking of is:

       "Ex Machina"  by Lewis Padgette (sp?)  It was published
  in Analog (Astounding) a while back and the inventor (named
  Galloway Gallegher becomes a super inventor only when drunk.
  In the story, he has a side kick robot named Joe and a lush
  of a father (who is always threatening to go back to Maine).
  
  If you can't find the story in the Analog (Astounding) back
  issues, then look it up in one of Analog's new anthologies
  about humour (number 4, I think!).  It's the first story...

               					Eugen Bacic