Unlikely excuses: A faulty microchip

Raymond Chen October 11, 2007 Oct 11, 2007 10/11/07

Last year, a talking action figure was discovered to utter a curse word. A spokesperson for the store said that the problem might be a faulty microchip. Huh? What microchips fail by saying curse words? I mean, I can see the voice chip failing by generating static or chopping up the audio so as to become unintelligible, but what are the odds...