The mere mention of her name makes horses neigh.
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āFrau Blucher, and Dough the old gray Mareāā¦ Whinny!!!
I would tune in to Car Talk radio just to hear those hilarious acknowledgements at the end. 
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Yeah that was funny but do you know why the horse would Whitney and would you tell your kids? Whatever happened to actual comedy?
I just thought it was timed to coincide with āDoug The Old Gray Mareā.
Bing, with all due respect, please start typing again. I know you meant whinny based on the context, but spoken word dictating doesnāt seem to work.
A friend of mine ended up in Facebook ājailā because he spoke all of his posts, and dictate misinterpreted it and other account holders kept reporting him.
I will keep typing, until someone pries the keyboard from my cold.
dead.
handsā¦!
you were saying?
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Iām not on Facebook or any other and got a Christmas card from the sheriff so Iām not worried about jail.
Even so, typing makes one appear more professional.
Iāve never used the Dictation (or similar) function, and hope never to have to.
But the voice to text function is much safer when youāre on the freeway and texting your wife about dinner. 
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Should I tell him now that I donāt know what he is talking about and would have no idea how to do it? Naw. I find it amusing when people make baseless assumptions but canāt believe they are wrong.
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bing:
āDictationā is what Apple calls its version of a way of converting spoken word to text. If you have an Android OS phone, the same feature might go by another name.
Iām sorry, but itās easy to assume you were speaking words to text when the sound of a horse, in your comment, came out as āWhitneyā instead of whinny or whinney.
Another possibility: Auto-Correct and/or Predictive Text might be activated(by default) in the Settings for your keyboard. Predictive might try to guess you meant the name Whitney instead of whinny(!)
I learned some time ago to go into settings on a new phone and to turn off the half-dozen or so keyboard assist/ automatic features, so the keyboard behaves more like the Smith-Corona typewriters I fondly remember.
Sorry for any misunderstandings, and hope this clears things up.
Chris, with all do respect, Stop being holier than thou and trying to convert everyone over to YOUR way of thinking, no matter if it is correct or notā¦
I can promise you, if I didnāt have the spell check thingy turned on, you would think I was in the middle of a stroke or somethingā¦ I CAN NOT SPELL FOR ā ā ā ā !!!
Whenever I see a misspelt word I think it is an auto correct, not them being lazy and using talk to textā¦
I HAVE to use talk to text a lot of times cause my spelling is SO BAD and far off that spell check (which mostly sucks) is lost, or I have to google it (works better than spell checks corrections), but even then I am so far off those donāt even work, so I HAVE to someway or another speak my word(s) in order to see how it is speltā¦ Now that I am having issues with speaking my words clearly/correctly, If talk to text or whatever doesnāt work, then I just have to re-wright what I am trying to say in order to use a different wordā¦
We are NOT all the same, some us can do things that others can not, but those others can do stuff that we can notā¦
I can do somethings that probably only a hand full of people in the word % wise can do, but the people not able to do those things I can do can do much greater things, it takes us all to make the world go aroundā¦
Remember that if everybody was the same, life would be boringā¦
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Yeah, but with my redneck southern draw, boy oh boy has talk to text gotten me into trouble with the wifey before, gezz it has put other female names (that I donāt even know) into text and screwed what I was trying to say all kinds of upā¦ Like making it look like I was texting another female and sent it to her by mistakeā¦
I should really screen shot some of the stuff I type or talk to text before I prof read and correct itā¦ 
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^This^ is exactly what happened to a friend of mine, using voice-text on Fakebook. Only it was his comments against his political opponents, and the voice-to-text posted what sounded like threats! It got him suspended from Fakebook, and when his account was reopened, everything he posts now has a disclaimer attached to it by FB about its validity or lack thereof. He canāt even type p u s s ycat without asterisks appearing in front of it, lol! He owns 9 cats.
Where you got āholier than thouā out of what was simplie advice and info I shared is beyond my comprehension. I just simply stated that I turned all that off before using the phone. I never said anyone else had to do it, only that it worked for me.
If anything I type worse than you dave! For every 5 seconds of typing I spend 15 backspacing to correct all the typos. In other words: Iām my own āauto-correctā and āspellcheckerā. I just donāt believe in all those built-in assistants, but that does not me any holier than a t i h s -stained tollet seat.
There is something seriously wrong with the way people online, in general, interpret and receive advice or knowledge. They take it as an attack, for no good reason, and it makes no sense.
It took me over one minute to type the above sentence, because of all the backing up I had to do to correct the misspellings. If Iād left them in, the sentence would be completely(30 seconds just to type ācompeletltyā!) unreadable.
I think it might have something to do with telling a couple of adults not to cross the street until the walk sign came on. Or maybe Iām confusing you with someone else. Then one of the more violent members here said heād give you a fat lip or something to that effect. Actually I agree with him/her but I would have just laughed.
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I simply asked them why they didnāt use the button provided.
The side street in question connects to the CT Post Road, a four lane meat-grinder with cars turning into and out of said side street.
How āI personally use every pedestrian buttonā come off as āholyā makes zero sense. Itās just common sense.
Do some research on what actually happens when you press that button.
I donāt know the actual step-by-step, but pressing the walk button initiates a cycle where the walk lights display, vs the traffic control signals for the cross street. Yes, it may take a minute or two to happen, but no big deal.
I 1st said it 2 days ago about you always lecturing us about the speed limit and after making this statement:
And many types of statements like that in the thread below as well as on the forum in generalā¦
You have a habit of solicitating unwanted adviceā¦ You do it so much and often that I donāt even think you realize you are doing itā¦
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