# SNL: Amazon Echo for old farts
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334 "2018-08-27T04:09:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/1 "2018-08-27T04:09:17Z")
Love this!: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT\_gqs5ETk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk)
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/2 "2018-08-27T04:26:35Z")
It’s what?
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/3 "2018-08-27T04:28:01Z")
Not available in Canada. ☹ Maybe in Russia?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/4 "2018-08-27T04:29:11Z")
I don’t know 'bout that.
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/5 "2018-08-27T04:35:24Z")
It’s what now? Alandale!
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### Author:  [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/6 "2018-08-27T13:14:42Z")
Haha pretty funny.
I found this link that might work for people from different countries.
> **[\#SNL. Amazon Echo](https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/346845/SNL-Amazon-Echo/)**
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> The Amazon Echo Silver is specifically designed for the greatest generation (Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/7 "2018-08-27T13:28:04Z")
Kate McKinnon is gorgeous, even at 90+ years old.
Uh-huh.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/8 "2018-08-27T13:51:33Z")
O-_dessa!_
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/9 "2018-08-27T14:52:12Z")
“Send a check or money order to Amazon” Subtle.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/10 "2018-08-27T18:53:28Z")
Satchel Paige died in 1982.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/11 "2018-08-27T19:40:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Satchel Paige died in 1982.
I don’t know about that.
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### Author:  [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/12 "2018-08-27T19:59:24Z")
SNL loves to make fun of old farts with bad hearing. I’m not as ancient as the people in this mock ad are supposed to be, but my hearing is poor enough to make me pretty uncomfortable watching it. Too close to home!
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/13 "2018-08-27T20:01:44Z")
My whole family found this sketch to be hilarious when it first came out, and even more so when I got my Dad an Echo a little while later. They laugh and say “It’s true!”
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/14 "2018-08-27T20:07:26Z")
[sigh] It’s in your right hand.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/15 "2018-08-27T21:10:55Z")
We played this for our family, and they all said “That’s Nana!” Don’t you think my sharp old mom could master the phrase “Hey, Google”?
Nope. She only uses it for music, but she’s always trying to use commands like “Don’t you think this is a little too loud, Google?” or “Y’know, Google, I’m not happy with this song at all.”
She denies it, but I’m pretty sure she thinks “Hey, Google, next song.” isn’t polite enough.
Now when she does that, we say “Alicia, what them neighbor kids doin’? You say they jes’ playin’?”
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/16 "2018-08-27T21:33:04Z")
Even though I’m not of the targeted age yet, there have been mornings where the alarm went off and I couldn’t remember what the hell its name was nor how to make it stop. (“Alyssa Sleep” does not make the beeping go away.)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/17 "2018-08-27T21:44:25Z")
Uh huh.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/18 "2018-08-28T03:05:07Z")
Playing, uh, jazz.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/19 "2018-08-28T03:11:45Z")
**I SAID, "GET YOURS TODAY!"**
(Why does the woman with the phone in her hand look like “Sadness” from Pixar’s, “Inside Out”?)
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/20 "2018-08-28T03:57:27Z")
That was hilarious.
Uh-huh.
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