It even happened to me last weekend when I was on CNN with anchor Don Lemon and playfully joked about Canada.

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"What's happened to me has had a very positive effect on people around me because they think if it could happen to me then I better get it checked out, " he said.

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Your questions are interesting, but it seems to me Sony is reacting very much based on what happened with the PS3 release.

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Take something like Millionaire, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which is not really reality but it's the same sort of thing, you can be made to look a complete and utter prat within two questions on Millionaire, I know, because it's happened to me.

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And on my first day in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, it happened to me with my BlackBerry Z10.

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Dial the 800 number, work through a dizzying array of menu choices, choose to speak with a human being and wait on hold listening to music for 20 minutes to two hours (it happened to me once) and you might reach a person who can (in only 70% of my cases) provide definitive, final help.

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But it would be a mistake for me to comment further on -- or to characterize further what happened or how to rate our unhappiness about it from here.

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