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15 hilarious things you can make Alexa do on the Amazon Echo
Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated digital assistant, can do way more than just tell you the weather, make purchases on Amazon and play music.
Here are some not-so-conventional things you can ask the Siri and Cortana-alike that you may have missed.
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Get Shia LaBeouf to give you a personal life-coaching session
Do It!
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Remember that "Just Do It" speech Shia LaBeouf made that somehow got over 27 million views? Now you can have Alexa repeat it to you when you really need a good slap on the ass!
Determine who's actually right in an argument
Who Is Right?
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Give Alexa a pre-set list of names and she'll randomly decide who's right, so you and your colleague/roommate/sibling can finally shut up already.
Ask Gollum to give you riddles to solve
Gollum
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Perhaps the creepiest thing you can make Alexa do. Worth it.
Tell appropriately geeky jokes for the right occasion
Geek Humor
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They range in topic from science to computers, math to robots, and more. Recycle them to impress.
Check if Game of Thrones characters are dead yet
Death Info for Westeros
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No, it shall be YOU who sits on the Iron Throne of geeky knowledge tidbits. (Fed by the books' facts, not the show's, mind.)
Sound an air horn on your colleague who won't stop talking
Air Horn
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Choose from five different startling noises to make sure everyone on your desk hates you.
Roast your friends for you when you can't come up with any good bantz
Roast Master
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Apparently she can be brutal – and she's probably wittier than you.
Get motherly advice when you need life help
Mom Says
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Well, it's not YOUR mum… This is actually more adorable than it is funny, but getting some maternal direction is never a bad thing.
Teach you facts about cats when you're at a loose end
Cat Facts
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Or just whenever you want, because who doesn't need more random facts to share during awkward lulls in conversation?
Show you particularly crazy facts that make you question your whole existence
Crazy Fact
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Forget cats, did you know that hospitals give 12 babies a day to the wrong parents?!?!
Listen to songs with cowbells in them because you've got a fever ...
More Cowbell
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And the only prescription is more cowbell.
Hand out compliments that also feature goat noises
Goat Compliments
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Alexa will say something nice about you before (and sometimes after) playing the sound of a screaming goat. We don't know why, but she does.
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