Althouse: Found poetry.

January 12, 2024

Found poetry.

I found "Incomplete Shopping List" by Siri:

24 comments:

Mr. Forward said...: Siri is a vegetarian.; 1/12/24, 6:34 AM
boatbuilder said...: Happy Birthday, Professor!!; 1/12/24, 6:35 AM
Mr. Forward said...: "Siri, are you a vegetarian?"

"I don't eat or drink but I always have an appetite for good conversation."; 1/12/24, 6:38 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: In reality that's not much worse than most rappers mumbling shommagrommagreezinliteninmumfugguh in auto-tune right now. Hey Siri, maybe use "bitch" a little less and try variations on "hoe", "slut", and "DOXY".

Give it a few more years Siri and you'll be nominated for a Grammy!; 1/12/24, 6:39 AM
rehajm said...: Youtube offered me this Ron Swanson clip early this morning, apropos of nothing: veganism is the sad result of a morally corrupt mind…

Did the algorithms coordinate with Siri on this? I have to turn Siri on to use CarPlay now and last week I had to use CarPlay. We were careful not to divulge secrets in the car…or so we thought.; 1/12/24, 7:21 AM
Oso Negro said...: Good Lord! What were you up to there in the kitchen?; 1/12/24, 7:26 AM
tommyesq said...: Isn't that a Doja Cat lyric?; 1/12/24, 7:32 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: If I has access to an AI I would ask for a pun that don't exist in print.

Maybe a list.; 1/12/24, 7:49 AM
Ann Althouse said...: We just needed to go to Whole Foods and buy, among other things, the ingredients for pot roast.

Meade opened up the "Notes" app and said "beef," the first item.

The rest is poetry history.; 1/12/24, 7:50 AM
Randomizer said...: That wouldn't be a bad shtick for SNL or a comedian. A beat poet reading Siri poetry.; 1/12/24, 8:02 AM
Steven Wilson said...: I call this masterpiece "The Perils of Leaving Dictation On." It was preceded by my invocation of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in response to someone employing "super iffy" in regards to the likelihood of an event occurring due to predicted weather.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
Sorry I need to make a reservation that's OK now we need think about this.
We'll get pork chops and we've got spaghetti sauce they're not coming up then we'll be eating at home
Or perhaps with Jeff and Tara on Saturday I doubt it,
If the weather is bad bacon sausage, we could make pancakes
Drop those papers off at how would I do the pizza lunch meat they may or may will see we've got lemons at the house
Lemon cake mix oh yes I will. I'm sorry pork chops do the Italian pork chops.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. All plaudit are welcome, other comments unnecessary.
I submit this an artistic achievement and as proof that we (Pam and me) are not entirely obsessed by food as I did mention dropping off the papers.; 1/12/24, 8:16 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: love,
Pinkman; 1/12/24, 8:53 AM
mikee said...: This found poetry can be described in one word: Bitching!; 1/12/24, 9:35 AM
Jaq said...: Reminds me of the song "Hard to Handle," to be honest.; 1/12/24, 9:38 AM
Temujin said...: A pure laugh-out-loud moment from the Althouse blog. A good way to cap the week. Except...there's always tomorrow.; 1/12/24, 10:14 AM
Jupiter said...: W? T? F?; 1/12/24, 10:18 AM
Joe Smith said...: To be fair, he did say 'Beef.'; 1/12/24, 10:45 AM
PM said...: A new meme when the wait staff serves dinner.; 1/12/24, 11:54 AM
Oligonicella said...: Reads like complaint beat poetry by a recalcitrant twelve year old.; 1/12/24, 1:07 PM
Will Cate said...: tommyesq said... Isn't that a Doja Cat lyric?

Pretty close; 1/12/24, 1:23 PM
gadfly said...: Where's the beef, bitch? Where's the beef?" is a catchphrase in the United States and Canada, introduced as a slogan for the fast food chain Wendy's in 1984. Since then it has become an all-purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event, or product.; 1/12/24, 5:22 PM
Oso Negro said...: Althouse said:
We just needed to go to Whole Foods and buy, among other things, the ingredients for pot roast.

Meade opened up the "Notes" app and said "beef," the first item.

The rest is poetry history.

Sure. Ok. Sounds legit.; 1/12/24, 6:40 PM
Tina Trent said...: Yeah, domestic violence poetry history. Would you dare to quote this if he was saying ni**er? Why or why not? Explicate.

And what do you think are the most common last words domestic violence victims hear?

You guys found this amusing in a Whole Foods? Get some help. Or go to church. Or do something that makes you treat female lives as valuable as black male ones.

Maybe move out of Madison. Or fucking apologize.; 1/12/24, 7:35 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Beef Bitch, ow!

magnets.; 1/12/24, 8:45 PM