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Monday, May 11, 2020
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To add this to your own Library Of Books, simply give Siri's answer to the question: why does the Porridge Bird lay its eggs in the air?
ReplyDelete(asked by the main character in the 1971 comedy recording I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus by the Firesign Theatre to the computer playing the President of the Unites States, causing it to shut down)
DeleteJust like a Presidential Press Conference today!
DeleteBecause it is incapable of finding or reaching a hard vacuum.
ReplyDeleteA swell answer! Better than Siri's, which is the one I'm looking for ...
DeleteI don't have siri but I know the President was involved, along with rest of the Bozos on the Bus. This is going to be very amusing.
DeleteThank you for reminding me that Siri's on my iPad. Her answer
ReplyDeleteis,"Nice try. While I don't know, you cannot get me to shut
down that easily."
And, sure, that's a good comeback and all, but it's not as good as
the replies I used to get from the "assistant" program on my first
Android phone.
One time, and one time only (though of course for some
exceptionally good reason) I lost my habitual self-composure
and yelled, "Shut up,bitch!" So she said, "Potty Mouth!"
Another time, driving through Rosemead, California, I found myself
wondering where a person ought to go in order to buy pipe
cleaners. I tried "Cigar store near Rosemead, California."
She said, "Smoking is a terrible habit and very bad for your
health. Would you like some information on how to quit?"
Patiently, even kindly -- in other words, with my habitual
self-composure -- I repeated the query. This time, her response
was, "Smoking is very bad for your health. Would you like me
to show you some pictures?"
(Stealth Link™)
DeleteI like to think the name Siri came from "ask a siri question, get a siri answer" but I could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteSiri is a spin-off from a project originally developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, located in the basement of the Sol & Sol Deli* on the corner of 3rd ave and 10th street.
Delete*Sol and Sol were brothers; no one could figure out why their parents named them both Sol.
Like George Foreman.....
DeleteThanks Farquhar, this is some seriously swell reading!
ReplyDeleteSiri is a Yenta. There I said it.