The emails run the gamut of bizarre, problem-stricken people who wish to sip from the fountain of Oprah wisdom: a woman with 4.5-foot long hair. A girl in dire need of Hannah Montana tickets. Someone who thinks the number “111″ has special significance. The salt of the internet!
The Opera folks are very good sports, informing their deluded friends that they’ve reached a Norwegian software company, and not, in fact Oprah Winfrey. And they even try to help sometimes! I doubt you’d get this kind of intimate reply from Firefox. Although, how many confused emails do they get? There must be some strippers named Firefox or something out there. [Opera via Boing Boing]
Glenn
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 2:04 PMYou cant hate on a 9 year old girl for spelling opera correctly
TSH
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 2:33 PMI reckon they were pretty good-natured about it, Glenn.
Good on the Opera guys for being such good sports. They could easily have just dismissed things with a standard-form e-mail. Maybe they usually did that and answered the odd Oprah e-mail for fun?
Simon
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 2:51 PMI am 9 years old…my cell phone number is…if you can’t get a hold of me during week days i start school at 8:40 and i end school at 3:20
Cell phone at 9, this girl is writing like a business person. By the sounds of it she could afford her own tickets.
olearymo
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 3:49 PMIm a little concerned about a 9 year old girl pitting so much personal information in the email! o_O
Steve
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 7:58 PMI love Opera, it’s the little browser that could. I got into it during that brief window when IE was unusable and vulnerable as shit and Firefox was hideously bloated (and from what I’ve heard, still is).
Haven’t looked back!
Tim
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 6:35 PMPretty much the most tech-hipster comment I’ve ever read.
Feral
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 12:18 AMI’m sure the wife will find something equally pointless to watch, re-runs.