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CNET Mailbag: Auto-Incorrect Extravaganza

2009-09-30
hello everyone I'm Molly would welcome to the cnet mailbag the show where we tell you about the new things we're doing take your complaints about the old things and get crazy snail mail as a bonus let's start with your snail mail I got this letter from Malta and when I shake it a little glitter comes out so I didn't want to open it in my office but let's open it here in the studio Charlie won't mind right charlie I don't think so okay maybe I'll open it in the kitchen I'll let you know what it says in other snail mail this letter just kind of terrified me it turned out to be a really confusing tech support request but I don't really do that so but thank you for writing Nolan sent me this letter saying it had occurred to me that you never answer my emails that I send you so I have decided to send my questions via snail mail and here is this summary of these important questions is Tom Merritt a Doug Adams fan why is Brian Cooley on screen on top of a gas pump at my local holiday and can you do a how-to on Adblock Plus also he sent this as a possible lame prize for top 5 a wiring diagram for a USB cable written on a broken half of a floppy disk with silver sharpie okay Nolan here we go yes I don't know and we'll look into it and this prize might be too lame even for Tom but I will pass it on ok on to cnet TV updates TB says just notice you guys now do a car tech live podcast love it keep up the good work yes we do it's on fridays at two-thirty Pacific 5 30 eastern and you can watch it in all of our other cnet live streams at cnet com flash life we also launched a new series called cnet conversations which is hosted by me and rotating news or reviews or other scenic colleagues the first one posted last week and it was an interview with us CTO and east Chopra well Matthew writes to say cnet conversations was a great show but I the studio that it is in is very bland and boring also please add it to the CNN TV menu and onto itunes / podcast at cnet com thanks Molly anything to make you happy Matthew did you like the interview at all all right speaking of things you don't like Oh braid cow says over the last days the only adds in between the videos are for symantec norton Dakin Kimball slice the ads are really stupid oh and highly annoying and just make me want to do two things one get to another website to never never never never ever buy anything from symantec again what dork create such annoying ads for online they might be okay when viewed once but after that they're just annoying get rid of these okay maybe the repetition is the problem noted but dude I think that ad with the chicken and Dakin is like the funniest thing ever huh I actually do we crack myself up just thinking about it okay sorry haha oh crap don't put that in the show all right we haven't done an auto incorrect segment in a while so let's do a slew of them shall we JP says I was sending a text message to my friend who was sick in bed with the flu he was really sick my iphone kindly corrected my advice to make sure you get plenty of liquor I now have a drunk sick friend in bed with the flu thanks apple and Bruce G rights I was chatting with a friend via text I am messaging and I meant to type oh how come but came out as see how come nice okay this next one is a little bit racy but it's hilarious jay says so recently I got into sodoku pretty darn good at it too and quite proud of myself the other day I texted my girlfriend to proclaim myself the sudoku King except my ipod touch decided the proper word I was looking for would be sodomy I am now the sodomy King great work apple now my girls got unrealistic expectations sent from my ipod I'm sorry everyone but it had to be done and that's it for this week everyone keep the feedback in questions coming email me at mailbag and cnet com or send your snail mail 2 235 second street san francisco california 9 105 thanks for watching
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