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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. Yeah right by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give it a break Amazon PR, no one uses Alexa.

    1. Re:Yeah right by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 4, Funny

      I seriously doubt that...

      "Alexa... How many people use Amazon Echo? Really? Only one? But I have one...."

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      A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips