First, from Barbara, enjoy this bit of Scottish sketch comedy. The true moment of laugh-till-you-cry is at the end:
And now: ten winners!
Cat
Teresa Mederios! Just kidding! Brandie
Nagaina
Chris
Meg
Kathleen
Sandy
Nichole
Milena
Nan
Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing addresses and I’ll get yer books eht to ye, lassie! SCOTLAAAAANNND!
OMG! That was funny funny funny!
Once I stopped rolling around in fits of laughter, I stopped and thought about this. I wouldn’t be able to get out of the lift, because voice recognition hates Australian accents. My Mam has a thick Irish accent. She’d be stuck too. In fact, 90% of my friends and family would be stuck in that lift … but hey, we’re Gaels. Great craic, indeed.
That said, being rendered invisible by cultural imperialism is pretty damn sad, actually.
(spamword: earlier37: 37 years earlier, the prejudice my mother encountered in London was a lot more personal)
SCOTLAND! SCOTLAND!
I’ve watched this four times in a row and I’m still laughing! Ahh! And I just got the relation between the video and the book.
Congrats to the winners!
Oh my lord, that is TOO FUNNY!
That’s me and the OnStar bitch, but without the Scottish accents 😀
Heaven help me if some idiot ever introduces this into the USA. I have more than enough trouble making the voice recognition stuff on the phone understand my Aussie accent 😛
It doesn’t help that live people are even worse. I asked an operator once for the number for State Farm. She asked me if I could spell it since she didn’t recognize the words. I had to spell it 3 times and still had to say… “S-T-A-T-E as in, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York are all STATEs; F-A-R-M as in… Old MacDonald had one.”
I totally understand going berserk at the IVR, so got a very good laugh out of this!
Born and raised in Texas….I can’t get the voice recognition to work over the phone. I think it is just the program. Hate them.
Terrific! The part that laid me out, though, was “You from the same part of England as Dick Van Dyke?”
Chim chiminey, Chim chim cher-ee, Chim cher-oo.
That was funny funny funny!