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Mr. Megabux' Penguin Party

They called it a penguin party, although there was only one. It was quite large, it's true, but it was robotic, so was there any penguin at all, really? Then the iceberg rocked, and the silly thing slipped right off. Turned out it couldn't swim worth a darn. Wonder if that was covered by insurance. Still there on the bottom, or in it; no one felt it was worth salvaging. Critters enjoyed crawling on it and gluing their shells to it, I suppose, until the slide of '26 buried it too deep. Cold enough the nuclear-powered "brain" probably still works. Imagine it! All these years lying in the mud, nothing ... to ... do.... If an AI can go insane, that one has! If someone ever does retrieve it, and installs it in a functioning device, well, I'd like to see that. From a safe distance. Like at the controls of a drone.