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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Working through my personal todo list today and I see this item.🤦‍♂️ I use speech-to-text constantly and I am amused that it somehow caught this and that I saved it! 😁

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I know that feeling lol.

I have a love/hate relationship with my Google speaker. Some examples that have happened:

"Hey google, set the temperature to 21 degrees"

google: "Sure. Setting the heater to 71 degrees!"

And

me: hey google, start a timer for ten minutes

google: okay, starting a 10 minute timer

me: perfect

google: okay, consider it cancelled

me: ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nerf herder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Who's scruffy lookin'?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of our customers at work is Nerfherder Distribution. Thought that sounded familiar.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nerfherder Distribution

my goodness. that's hilarious! had to look it up to see if it's real!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first reaction the post was "huh, I don't really know what they do ... maybe this will educate me"!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reference is from Star Wars. https://youtu.be/Q3DXMVZiVpc

Nerfs are large, horned, shaggy furred domesticated mammals. Herders... you know... herd them. And they smell. Bad.

That IRL company however, probably just used the term for fun. They are a medical device and distribution company. I think it pretty hilarious that somebody use that term for legit business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is an extremely deep cut, but then I can really only hear two words of dialogue and immediately place them with the TOS movies and TNG episodes. The original trilogy feels redundant after 7-9 came out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suppose it depends on perspective and the circles one's been a part of. To those who watched the original trilogy a bunch and/or read the many books in the Expanded Universe, the term isn't so obscure. Nerf-herder was used quite a bit. Pretty common in the Disney-owned age too. There's no denying it though. It definitely falls in the realm of "geeks." 😁

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