A friend sent me a link to this Simon Rich “Shouts and Murmurs” from the New Yorker last year. Somehow I missed it at the time. It’s pretty funny. A taste:
My favorite Google feature is Google Dictionary. Whenever I need a word defined, I just type it into the search box and the meaning pops right up. It’s really convenient, but sometimes the definitions can be strange. For example, here are some words I looked up recently on Google Dictionary.
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Jesus Christ: A guy who made people’s lives much easier and then was crucified. Sound familiar?
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Thank You: A thing it wouldn’t kill people to say.
But, it is not factual.