People Mistake Opera Browser for Oprah Winfrey

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By Marcus Yam
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The Oprah Browser.

The Queen of television, that would be Oprah Winfrey, has done her last show. It's the end of an era for afternoon TV.

Oprah, the self-made success story she is, has left her mark on various different areas of the media industry. She's virtually a household name in the U.S.

Opera, on the other hand, is an alternative browser that runs on a multitude of desktop and mobile platforms. Opera isn't quite a household name in the same way that Firefox is, but it can hang with all the big boys.

Believe it or not, some people get confused between Oprah and Opera. As a send off to the Queen of TV, Opera has posted some of its funnier emails from people who emailed the Norwegian company looking for Oprah.

Check them all out here.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
66 Comments Comment from the forums
  • eyeklops
    Talk about a huge run on sentence. Since when did they stop teaching kids about punctuation in school?
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  • thrasher32
    LMAO

    This is why we shouldn't cut funding for education...
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  • fazers_on_stun
    Reminds me of the story about one of the MLB's best pitchers, Mel Faimey, who years ago was pitching a perfect game until the 9th inning, when he came out and proceeded to walk 6 batters in a row and thus lose the game.

    Afterwards, the opposing team passed by the bullpen on the way to the locker room when one of them spotted a large number of empty beer cans.

    "Look everybody - this must be the beer than made Mel Faimey walk us"!

    :D :D
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  • bavman
    This gave me a good chuckle. What people do sometimes.
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  • toddybody
    Really Tom's? You couldnt have written a real article?
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  • sliem
    Haha, so dumb. Honestly. Just as dumb as people who say "their so dumb."
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  • clonazepam
    lol i liked the request for a numerologist... my daughter, 5 at the time, wrote the most hilarious of letters to Santa. God bless the children :)
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  • Tortoise is a great band.
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  • superman21
    fazers_on_stunReminds me of the story about one of the MLB's best pitchers, Mel Faimey, who years ago was pitching a perfect game until the 9th inning, when he came out and proceeded to walk 6 batters in a row and thus lose the game.Afterwards, the opposing team passed by the bullpen on the way to the locker room when one of them spotted a large number of empty beer cans."Look everybody - this must be the beer than made Mel Faimey walk us"!I see what you did there.
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  • nebun
    thrasher32LMAOThis is why we shouldn't cut funding for education...i agree...how can someone confuse OPERA with OPRAH...stupidity all over the world, lol
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