# 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:** 11 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/21 "2018-08-28T13:34:26Z")
The room temperature is already one hundred degrees. ---
### Author: ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/22 "2018-08-28T14:42:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The room temperature is already one hundred degrees. McCoy: Well, I see I’m not gonna be making any house calls on YOU! ---
### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/23 "2018-08-29T02:28:35Z")
Uh-huh. ---
### Author: ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/24 "2018-08-29T03:32:40Z")
Okay, that was funny. But I think I still like [Amazon Echo for Southerners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3j6708kzEY) better. Especially ordering biscuits. ---
### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/25 "2018-08-29T13:20:16Z")
I don’t know 'bout that. ---
### Author: ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/26 "2018-08-29T16:09:32Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Okay, that was funny. > > But I think I still like [Amazon Echo for Southerners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3j6708kzEY) better. > > Especially ordering biscuits. Misses by a mile. E.g., the kids should be calling her “Miss Alexa”, etc. ---
### Author: ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/27 "2018-08-29T16:29:50Z")
Can you use Google to pay your robot insurance premium? ---
### Author: ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/28 "2018-08-29T16:51:08Z")
Uh huh. But they messed up at the end. Any commercial that target us old fogies never gives a web address, always just a phone number. ---
### Author: ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/29 "2018-08-29T17:53:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > [sigh] It’s in your right hand. Well I knew _that_, but where did I put my glasses Aleppo? ---
### Author: ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/30 "2018-08-29T20:00:06Z")
If my grandmother had Echo, she would call it “Elektra-Alecia-Allegra-whatever-your-name-is-cuz-you-know-who-I-am-talking-to-any-damn-way”. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk ---
### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir) #### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334/31 "2018-08-30T03:38:06Z")
> [@eunoia](#): > > Well I knew _that_, but where did I put my glasses Aleppo? [sigh] You are wearing them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-amazon-echo-for-old-farts/820334.md?page=1)