Guy and doll

Just got a confirmation call for a doctor appointment. It pronounced Novi (no vi, just like it appears) as “Novee”

It’s been Novi since 1832……..

When in New York, be sure to get a pastrami sandwich at Katz's Deli. It's on East Houston Street. That's pronounced "HOW-stun."

Just down the road from me is a little town called Santa Fe.

Pronounced Santa Fee like tree.

A recent example had the abbreviation "LT CMDR" for lieutenant commander pronounce the letters individually. Some intelligence.

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When in New York, be sure to get a pastrami sandwich at Katz's Deli. It's on East Houston Street. That's pronounced "HOW-stun."

We have some real doozies here for outsiders, AI would be butchering these:

Conshohocken
Duquesne
Tunkhannock
Schuylkill
Bryn Mawr
Bala Cynwyd


I remember some new Philly radio DJ clearly not from here talking about something going on in Reading, PA and she pronounced it like "reading a book"

It's pronounced Redding like "Otis Redding"

^^^ And New Bern, NC pronounced as one word, or Versailles, KY pronounced (actually like it looks) "ver-SALEs". Even real people have trouble with those.

The trouble with artificial intelligence is that it lacks common sense. I don't know if anybody can program that in.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Polish folks in Chicago could pronounce it correctly. It is a matter of experience.
I have an annoyance where they take Casey Kasem's voice and pretend to be him.
Additionallly machine narration seems to be growing. It is not easy to imitate and also add in the emotional inflections when needed. Cant wait til robots sing Frank Sinatra.

AI has a 100/0 problem. It is 100% artificial, and 0% intelligent.

It is ruining the internet, and has already pretty much already destroyed X. It is doing a real job on YouTube.

More and more content is pure bullshit. Not just AI narration, which is irritating, but completely AI generated along a BS story line that pretends to be history, or crafts, or mechanics, or what ever.

I hate it. I'm pretty good at recognizing it, but the better AI gets, the harder it is to tell that the content isn't real.

Cue gravelly voice, with much sincerity...

The government doesn't want you to know this, but it really happened. In 2024, an ageing alley cat who had walked all the way to Florida from New York named Damn Yankee was living in the bushes outside of the National Hurricane Center located on the campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

Unbeknownst to everyone who petted him daily on they way to and from Starbucks for their morning coffee, Damn Yankee had a massive case of testicular cancer. They imagined that his yowling while being petted was a sign of pleasure, but really, it was a cry for help.

After months of this, with no one giving any aid, Damn Yankee chewed his cancerous balls off with his rotting teeth, dug a hole with his inflamed paws, each of which only had two claws left, and buried those testicles next to the flagpole situated on the front lawn of the National Hurricane Center.

Finally relieved of his pain, he wandered down to the canal for a quick drink of cool water and was eaten by an alligator.

This should be the end of the story, but it is not. You will be amazed at what happens next.

Those testicles were so nasty, that even when buried, they emitted a retching stink that permeated the air around the National Hurricane Center, and even gave the air a slight greenish tinge.

So stinky were those rotting balls, that two related events happened which caused one of the greatest ecological and geographical tragedies of the 21st century.

A bluebird on her way from North Carolina flying by the flag pole on it's way to New Orleans for some sweet jazz, was so overcome by the gaseous stench, the she plowed directly into the 4th stripe on the American flag, causing it to whip unexpectedly in the wind. That disruption in the currents of air flowing across the Florida peninsula eddied out across the broad Atlantic until those eddies collided with a disorganized low pressure area over the Sargasso Sea, a portion of ocean lying directly inside the Devil's Triangle. Faster then ever seen before, that low developed into Hurricane Madonna, the Mth storm of the season, in late September. Quickly building to a category 5 major hurricane, Madonna made a beeline for Damn Yankees festering onions.

At the same time this was happening, the cosmic reek emitting from the base of the flagpole had worked its way into the air conditioning inlets for the National Hurricane Center, polluting the interior of the bunker like structure with its putrid reek, the very scent of death.

The meteorologists and forecasters locked inside for 12 hour shifts, and tasked with observing weather disturbances in the Atlantic basin were so distracted, sickened, and even blinded by the toxic murk, that they were unable to see the disaster unfolding on the screens right in front of their watering eyes.

Before any warning could be given, Madonna fell upon the Florida peninsula as if driven by a manic revenge fantasy bent on extinguishing once and for all the injury to the soul of Gaia inflicted on our earth mother by Damn Yankee's festering testes.

Madonna was so ferocious that the Florida peninsula was torn asunder from the mainland USA right along the Georgia border, as if the line on the map were in fact a perforated seam in the very fabric of the earth itself.

Millions died. Cats laid down with dogs, the sun moved backwards in the sky, The Jacksonville Jaguars won a football game, water surged through the gap ripped through Florida's land. The earth screamed.

From that day forward, Florida has been an island. Like the Galapagos, or Madagascar, isolated from all other life. It is its own place. Unique, sun drenched, but suffering the inevitable consequences of limited genetic diversity.

And so, while the government doesn't want you to know this, Florida Man exists because some Damn Yankee moved to Florida, and tore off his cancerous testicles with his teeth in Miami, and buried their rotting husks in the otherwise innocent earth.

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More and more content is pure bullshit.

While tugging at your heart strings.



I don't believe this for a moment.