Siri Has a Poo Poo Mouth

From the kid that brought you “Let me whack myself in the head with an empty Coke bottle” now comes his latest adventure.

Now let’s back up a second. There are three lessons to this story.

Bissonnette Babble
When I started dating Nadine, I noticed she peppered her speech with made-up words and expressions. Maybe it was a Nebraska thing I thought. When I married her, I learned that she uses this Bissonnette babble all around her family. These words form the foundation of today’s story.

Siri’s Angelic Voice
A unique feature of Apples products is an electronic assistant that responds to your verbal questions in a sweet little voice. You hold a button down, ask her a random question, “How many actual Dr. Peppers are there in the world?” She politely responds, “Two. Only one is a real doctor. They both live in Minnesota.” This assistant goes by the name of Siri.

Kid’s Will Learn
Similar to Sugata Mitra‘s Hole-in-the-Wall experiment where he left a computer connected to the internet in the slums of New Delhi, India, and the children taught themselves to cruise the internet and market themselves to American firms. Grandma put Domino in the same position.

Grandma let him play with her sleek new IPhone and ask Siri a few harmless questions. Well, that is a Curious Dominic that one. She didn’t really pay attention. While he asked innocent stuff, he still tricked Siri. Without realizing it, he changed the name on the phone from Clare. The new name was a common Nadinism that she randomly throws around the house in playful banter.

Days later, Clare received interesting correspondence on her phone and in her email. Credit card companies even got in on the action. They stopped addressing her as Clare. They now called her “Poo Poo Phone Ahead”.

At some point, Domino said his name was “Poo Poo Farter Head”, but Siri had a hard time understanding that originally intended message from a five-year old boy and changed it to “Poo Poo Phone Ahead”. Imagine receiving an email from Citibank. “Dear Mrs. Poo Poo Phone Ahead, your credit card bill is due on September 28th. We look forward to continue working with you Mrs. Poo Poo Phone Ahead.”

Not being as tech savvy as her grandson, she grew tired of being called Mrs. Poo Poo Phone Ahead. She tried for days to replace Poo Poo Phone Ahead with her name, but grew frustrated. It finally came to a head when she asked help from Nadine. Finally her eldest daughter came to the rescue “Change name to Clare” and poof, back to Clare.