Olivia Munn - Please, It's Meta-KA-FEY

I subscribe to a podcast from G4 called Around the Net. It's a little summary of three or four "viral videos"* that they found on the Internet that day. They rotate hosts a lot, but Olivia Munn tends to be one of the regulars.

I think she is a great host for a show like this. She's terrific to look at and knows she is every Internet geek's wet dream. She always wears tight pants and a low cut top that amply reveals two of her finest assets. Beyond that, she's funny and clever and her sarcasm about the videos is very enjoyable to watch.

However, there is one thing she does repeatedly that has started to drive me nuts. Even though all of her co-hosts pronounce it correctly, every time she references a video from a certain website, she says "Meta-calf".

Olivia, it's Metacafe - as in meta and cafe. Cafe is pronounced ka-fey, not calf as in a baby cow. Their slogan is "serving the world's best videos" - so, yes, they are using the metaphor of a cafe, which typically serves food. Her co-host will announce, "And on metacafe..." and then a few moments later or on a subsequent episode, Olivia says, "And on metacalf..."

Why doesn't anyone correct her? Or maybe she's doing it on purpose so guys like me go nuts. She seems awfully smart, so maybe it's her way of playing dumb to get even more attention than she does already. I don't know, but it bugs the heck out of me. Olivia, please stop it!

*I have started to take exception to the term "viral video." A video only becomes viral if it catches on and gets passed around the web. Just because someone uploaded a video to one of the many sites displaying them now, it's not automatically "viral." G4 and a lot of other reviewers have started to refer to anything uploaded by frat boys who do nothing but chortle while one of their buddies abuses his genitals as "viral." But this is an adjective that has to be earned over time. However, this doesn't bug me half as much as Olivia saying "metacalf" so I'm relegating it to this footnote.