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June 18, 2009

Homer Simpson Want You To Go To There

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Homer Simpson is one of the "celebrity" voices that you can buy for your Tom Tom personal GPS device. What a weird thing to have. It costs $12.95, and then you can pretend like a fictional buffoon who is terrible to his children is telling you when to turn. Perfect. You will be living the dream! It sounds like this:

Yup. That is Homer Simpson saying the stuff GPS machines say. They nailed it. I went to the site to find out who some of the other celebrity voices were, but they don't publish a list, the other only one I could find was John Cleese. John Cleese? So at least we know they're making smart decisions. When I get a Tom Tom, and a car to put a Tom Tom in, I'm going to make it talk like Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. I TURN YOUR CARSHAKE. I TURN IT LEFT. Is that joke right on time and super not played out? Good. (Via 50Cent.livejournal.com.)

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Carrie

Have you guys ever noticed how adorable Zooey Deschanel is?

Posted by: Carrie profile link at 06/18/09 4:24 PM | Reply
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EtWB

Every night in my dreams.

Posted by: EtWB profile link in reply to Carrie's comment at 06/18/09 4:45 PM | Reply
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I hate you Ben Gibbard...

Posted by: simonsays profile link in reply to EtWB's comment at 06/18/09 5:00 PM | Reply
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arielleann

It's like, how much more Zooey could this be? And the answer is none. None more Zooey.

Posted by: arielleann profile link in reply to Carrie's comment at 06/18/09 9:39 PM | Reply
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arielleann

It's like, how much more Zooey could this be? and the answer is none. None more Zooey.

Posted by: arielleann profile link in reply to Carrie's comment at 06/18/09 9:41 PM | Reply
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"Dude Where's My Car" edition with alternating line reads by Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott.

Posted by: Jemiah Sludge profile link at 06/18/09 4:26 PM | Reply
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Carrie

The title of this post sounds like engrish.

Posted by: Carrie profile link at 06/18/09 4:30 PM | Reply
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when i read "i turn your carshake i turn it left.," i immediately decided to try it by saying it out loud in my B- daniel plainview voice. this was a bad idea because i work in an office and now everyone here thinks i am insane.

i guarantee at least one of the secretaries is thinking "i'm not sure that's even the correct quote!"

Posted by: Johnny profile link at 06/18/09 4:33 PM | Reply
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VideoGummyBear

It will be awesome if unstead of reapitng "recalculating" it would just go on repeating "Duh" "Duh" "Duh"

Posted by: VideoGummyBear profile link at 06/18/09 4:33 PM | Reply
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JBOOGIE

morgan freeman. end of discussion.

Posted by: JBOOGIE profile link at 06/18/09 4:35 PM | Reply
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heywoodjewbrome

They've got Mister T, too. And, I think, Mister Feenie from Boy Meets World. Which is great, because I've always felt my directions lacked more curmudgeonly wisdom. And/or gold chains.

Posted by: heywoodjewbrome profile link at 06/18/09 4:37 PM | Reply
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If you think of it less like Mr Feeney from Boy Meets World and more like Kit from Knight Rider (same dude!), it kind of seems freaking awesome.

Posted by: Anni in reply to heywoodjewbrome's comment at 06/19/09 12:20 AM | Reply
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Would a Tom Tom Waits be counter-productive?

Posted by: Scrabio at 06/18/09 4:47 PM | Reply
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Jaydubs

My friends bought a TomTom GPS so that they could have Mr. T provide them with directions wherever they went. Looks like you can also get Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Gary Busey ... There's a list of voices here: www.navtones.com/magento/products/tomtom

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Funtastik

What am I supposed to make of the fact that the only free voice in that list is the super-gay one? Real question.

Posted by: Funtastik profile link in reply to Jaydubs's comment at 06/18/09 7:49 PM | Reply
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They've got GARY BUSEY! How do you ever top that?

Posted by: Ugah profile link at 06/18/09 4:55 PM | Reply
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Dumbelina

I'm glad that:
1. I never ride in cars
2. I'm not friends with jackasses.
3. I will never have to endure riding in a car with a jackass who owns this. Syllogism!

Posted by: Dumbelina profile link at 06/18/09 5:02 PM | Reply
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I would drive my car off a pier if Willem Defoe was telling me to...

Posted by: simonsays profile link at 06/18/09 5:07 PM | Reply
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Right on time. Not even close to played out - we've got years left on that.

Posted by: Eli at 06/18/09 6:13 PM | Reply
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Zero7teen

Clint Eastwood would be fantastic, particularly his Gran Torino grumpy, old self.

Posted by: Zero7teen profile link at 06/18/09 7:14 PM | Reply
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My Tom Tom speaks in the voice of Carl from Slingblade. "Ahead exit riiiiiiiggggghhhttt"; "You've reached your destination, I suppose you didn't kill nobody"! WTF?

Anyway, John Cleese and Gary Busey sound pretty incredible. Gonna look into those!

Posted by: Merkinsocks profile link at 06/18/09 8:26 PM | Reply
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Elvis vs. Shark

What if you bought all the voices for your Tom Tom and then they all argued about the directions?

Posted by: Elvis vs. Shark profile link at 06/18/09 8:45 PM | Reply
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My boyfriend has good ole Burt Reynolds as his Tom Tom voice setting. How could The Bandit let you down?

Posted by: The Uniblogger at 06/18/09 9:59 PM | Reply
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doo doo smells worse

an excitable tracy morgan would be excellent.

and by excellent i mean a sure fire way to total your car out of uncontrollable fits of laughter.

Posted by: doo doo smells worse profile link at 06/19/09 8:02 AM | Reply
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