I bought Exile #2 a gadget for her birthday - I think that's pretty much the unforgivable sin of husbanding, but after nearly 14 years you can get away with the odd minor indiscretion of this type (I hope). The idea was to make the process of making a shopping list easier. The gadget is a voice-recognition list creating machine. When you realise you need to add something to the list, you simply press the button, say the product name and it is added to the list.
Of course, sometimes people have great difficulty understanding what we say. The machine sometimes has the same problem - we could reprogram it to understand British English, we could do our best (getting better) US accents, or we can relish the misunderstandings. In fact we've done a bit of all three. Here is an example of the third.
Warning: those who felt that the 2004 Super Bowl half-time 'incident' was a threat to civilisation should not play this video.
Well, you wouldn't want to run out, would you?
What kind of list is that word for? Hmm, "things to get pierced?"
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