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For Seattle Women Called Alexa, Frustrating To Share Name With Amazon Device (seattletimes.com)

Posted by msmash on from the weird-situations dept.

Reader reifman writes: Since Amazon introduced the Alexa-enabled Echo device in 2014, the jokes have become so omnipresent that Alexa Philbeck, 29, briefly considered changing, or at least obscuring, her name. The Seattle Times speaks to four women unfortunately called Alexa in a town that may soon be known as Seamazon.

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  1. Re:Did reifman fuck up the links in a 2-sentence s by Highdude702 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't even realize that you HAVE driven about 50% of the intelligent people to other sites do you?