Robin Williams will be joining them in a role as a talking dog.

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But I think that dismissing the YouTube livestream achievement as trivial is like the joke about the talking dog that was criticized for not enunciating properly: the real point is that YouTube has blown post being merely a repository for archived video and is now a prominent force in live, real-time national news coverage.

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Softbank, which also offers fixed-line broadband services, has carried out an aggressive marketing drive in recent years, starring a talking white dog that has proved popular among Japanese.

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Ms. PEREZ: We're talking - in dog years, that's - and they are dog years in - up in there.

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There are a range of apps, each with a character, such as Talking Tom the Cat, Talking Lila the Fairy, and Talking Ben the Dog.

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It happened like this: after a walk in the park with a friend, I saw a young woman sitting in a car talking to a dog.

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But we've been talking with our dog trainer and what have you about, you know, how we can manage this in the future if we decide to keep her.

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Just discussing your dog can be as tiresome and offensive as talking about the weather, your own dreams, or the newest wrinkle in your married sex life.

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