A top search string for this week

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For finding this blog was: "can u sexually harass Siri".

My memory fails me these days: is this something I discussed at one point?

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  1. Andy8:46 AM

    Well, she is a dirty girl.

    http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2015/04/siri-loves-naughty-word.html

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  2. Anonymous3:06 PM

    Hahaha, the funniest one I ever got was "poopie ecebomics"

    I think in the post, I had said the Obama administration had made a major poopie (like a big error), but I have no idea where the mispelling of 'economics' came from.

    -Bharat

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  3. Samson Corwell9:29 AM

    It's this one:
    Siri: Setting users up for sexual harassment charges since 2011    .

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