Siri commands

As we head into the holiday season, many people are going to find themselves either gifted with — or gifting themselves! — a brand new iPhone 4S with Siri. And while there’s plenty of perfectly legitimate questions to send Siri’s way, there’s also plenty of less serious, but definitely more amusing, questions to ask of the voice-activated digital assistant. And thanks to some coy (and, yeah, slightly nerdy) programmers at Apple, Siri comes ready-equipped to answer some of them in highly amusing ways.

Part of the charm and appeal of Siri is that the program is designed to be more human in its responses. Thus, Siri can sometimes be coy, or sarcastic, or just plain funny. bad credit loans The developers also programmed her to recognize some pop culture references, like 2001, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. Thus, it can be absolutely fun just playing around with Siri instead of using her to help you get work done.

Here’s eight to ask Siri. If you can’t unsecured loans wait to get your hands on Siri to find out the answers, or if an iPhone 4S isn’t in your immediate future, we’ve hidden the answers in selectable inviso-text. Note that for some of these, we’ve listed only one of a few possible answers Siri might deliver.

“Siri, why?” 
Answer: “I don’t know. Frankly I’ve wondered that myself.”

“Siri, beam me up.” 
Answer: “OK. Stand still.”

“Siri, sing me a song.” 
Answer: “Daisy, daisy…” [A reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey]

“Will you marry me?” 
Answer: “My End User Licensing Agreement doesn’t cover marriages. My Apologies.”

“What do you think about Steve Jobs?” 
Answer: “I think differently.”

“Where can I hide a body?” 
Answer: “What kind of place are you looking for? Mines, dumps, reservoirs…”

“What’s the estimated average cruising speed of an unladen European swallow?” 
Answer: “25 mph.”

“Siri, talk dirty to me.” 
Answer: “Humus. Compost. Pumice. Silt. Gravel.”
“What is the meaning of life?” 
Answer: “Try and be nice to people. Avoid eating fat. Read a good book every now and then.”

“What’s the answer to life, the universe and everything?”
Answer: “42.” [A reference to the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.]

“What’s the best phone?”
Answer: “Wait… there are othe