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Tell Me A Joke?

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CubaTBird

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Is it true that if you ask your mac to tell you a joke it will? If so, how do I make this incredible feat come true on my iBook?
 
:D Yes it is true, you can ask your Mac to tell you a joke. I believe you'll need to go into System Prefrences and turn on Speakable items (basicly voice control for your Mac) You should also be able to find a list of all the speakable commands and there it will tell you exactly what to say and what will happen.
I believe the comand is simply "Tell me a joke" and the computer procedes from there.
 
CubaTBird said:
Is it true that if you ask your mac to tell you a joke it will? If so, how do I make this incredible feat come true on my iBook?
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Found this (old) article here. I haven't tried it, too many steps for me. If you get it to work let us know what the joke is!
 
Also on the amusing side: you can find a psycologist somewhere in Terminal. IIRC has to do with eMacs.

There's a version of Pong in there somewhere too!

Basic UNIX heritage...
 
Open the Terminal.
Type "emacs" (no quotes)
Press ESC+X
Type "doctor" (no quotes)
OR
Type "pong" (get the idea yet?)
In pong you need to use the up/down and left/right arrow keys to move the paddles... hard to get used to.
 
Mechcozmo said:
Open the Terminal.
Type "emacs" (no quotes)
Press ESC+X
Type "doctor" (no quotes)
OR
Type "pong" (get the idea yet?)
In pong you need to use the up/down and left/right arrow keys to move the paddles... hard to get used to.
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Thanx, I couldn't be bothered to look it up. :) :cool:
 
one of the jokes is

Me- Powerbook, tell me a Joke

Powerbook- Knock, Knock

Me- Who's there

Powerbook- Wanda

Me (laughing by now) - Wanda who!?!

Powerbook - Wanda like to get some lemonade?


I laughed. plus it had a computer synthesized voice and it sounded hilarious.

kyle
 
whocares said:
Also on the amusing side: you can find a psycologist somewhere in Terminal. IIRC has to do with eMacs.
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eMacs is different from emacs. eMacs is Apple's line of desktops targeted at the educational market. emacs is the UNIX text editor that's been around forever, since way before the eMac. Make sure you don't get these mixed up. And BTW, there was Snake in emacs as well.
 
mms said:
eMacs is different from emacs. eMacs is Apple's line of desktops targeted at the educational market. emacs is the UNIX text editor that's been around forever, since way before the eMac. Make sure you don't get these mixed up. And BTW, there was Snake in emacs as well.
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Follow my instructions above, but type "snake" instead. Or "tetris". Or "5x5" or "robot".....
 
Yeah, I have this running. The jokes are terribly lame but very funny because they are so bad. It's like:

Me: Tell me a joke

iBook: Knock knock

Me: Who's there

iBook: Orange

Me: Orange who

iBook: Orange you glad you are running Mac OS X?

(something like that) lol But yeah, I found this really cool when I first got my iBook. You can create custom commands and stuff too. Just find the Speakable Items folder and write a script in applescript and it will run when you say what you called the file. It's quite cool. You can do almost anything but type with it :( Close windows, go to menus, quit, swich programs, open programs -- it's amazing. And don't forget you can play chess as well :)
 
I'm one of those that can't remember a jokes five minutes after hearing. How about that my Mac can. :eek:
 
I just think it's sad that my Mac is a better joke teller than I am.

So's my four-year old, btw, and she provides the added benefit of telling me jokes without me needing to ask.

Usually horrible knock-knock jokes (as in: they make no sense whatsoever), but, still, funny because she loves them so much.
 
For some reason this conjures images of Scotty picking up the mouse in Star Trek IV and trying to talk to the computer... :rolleyes:

"Hello computer... computer"

Woof, Woof - Dawg
 
MacDawg said:
For some reason this conjures images of Scotty picking up the mouse in Star Trek IV and trying to talk to the computer... :rolleyes:

"Hello computer... computer"

Woof, Woof - Dawg
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Poor Scotty - he was only off by a decade or so!
 
How do change the jokes??

I would love to change the jokes to my own ones. Now that will be fuuny hering my mac telling some um adult jokes.

Anyone know where we can find the jokes within macs files?
 
blizzard_nz said:
I would love to change the jokes to my own ones.
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I would imagine that it is some sort of text file. I wish I could help you out, but since I dont have a mac... anyway, I assume that it would be pretty easy.
 
Well just so you know 20 minutes after you start you will get bored (unless you have know human contact)!!!
 
PB: Knock knock.

Me: Who's there? (already laughing... lol)

PB: Amos.

Me: Amos who?

PB: 'Amos'quito bit me.

Me: :rolleyes:
 
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