Random Insult

• My random insult program (from 1980) was really just a simple FSA.
• The program started [S0],
• it picked a name (randomly) from a list of people (e.g. me, Claire Moritz the teacher, Don Crawford my friend) [S0--name-->S1],
• it picked a verb phrase (e.g. is, smells like, is the son of,) [S1--VP-->S2],
• it picked a second noun phrase (e.g. Idi Amin, a dead toad) [S2--NP-->S3],
• It added a period [S4--.-->F0].
• You could add some recursion (via back arcs) to get embedded sentences.