Siri ---OMG!


I thought this was one of the funniest episode. I just saw it on iN DEMAND on Optimum. It was the Siri episode and the timing was perfect.

STAR WARS just came out, well a few weeks ago, and I found that very funny when we had George Lucas in the ad.


This reminds me, Grandad's seeing the commercial and thinking it is exactly like what you saw on TV, of an experience when I worked in a cyber cafe. Videogame ads often have disclaimers "Not actual gameplay shots" when they promote games. So the cafe... I worked a four-location place called Cybersmith, a now defunct cafe from the people at Learning Smith. At the time the games from Virtuallaity were around. They used a device, and this is 1996, very similar to the Oculus of today.

http://cdn.wallstcheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/virtuality.jpg
(I cannot make above a working link so you'll have to cut and paste, sorry)

So this mother comes into for her daughter to play our video games and thinks (is WORRIED) it is JUST LIKE on TV.


At the time there was an episode of Mad About You where the main character was using a VR system and going through the listings of programs and under "B" was Christie Brinkley ---which made a cybersex encounter.

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/madaboutyouvrchristiebrinkley.mp4/view

AGAIN---She worried it was EXACTLY LIKE BELOW:





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Sorry if that story is too long, just reminded me of Granddad's experience with the Siri ad.
"Brinkley's appearance on NBC's Mad About You was the broadcaster's highest rated half-hour episode since the finale of The Cosby Show"

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I think the Siri episode was released to be timed with the movie "Her". Speaking of cyber cafes, that was where I first went online. It was a place called "Screenz" in the New Town/Lakeview area of Chicago. Sadly, it's gone although they still have a listing in the online Yellow Pages.



Annoying the world since 1960!

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I cannot remember the dialogue, but I seem to think Siri looked up Huey (via Wikipedia), and using Granddad's words, described him as a "domestic terrorist."


Granddad doesn't think too well of his grandchildren:

"One's a menace to society and the other one's a domestic terrorist."

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