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Adam Myrow wrote:

> I was just thinking about some of the funny responses that I have
> encountered in IF games.  Infocom usually had the best ones.

> Does anybody else have favorite responses they've seen

> in IF games?

This may not count, as it's actually an Inform library response:
'Mild' swearing, like darn, etc. gets the response "Quite." For
 some reason, this has always struck me as such a
(stereotypical, I know) British response. I can practically
see the parser as a stock butler.

