Today’s Buzz is 195 words long

Men and women both say about 17,000 words a day, a new study found, refuting long-held beliefs that women speak 20,000 words per day to men’s 7,000.

Of course, if you discount talk about football and whether Jessica Alba is hotter than Jessica Simpson, the disparity re-emerges.

The study’s biggest flaw could be that it focused only on college-aged people. Therefore, the men were too young to know that talking is the No. 1 way to wind up in the doghouse.

Let’s hope the “Sex and the City” cast still has something to talk about. Three years after the series ended, there’s finally a deal for a movie. They had been haggling for years while Kim Cattrall, who plays the seductive Samantha, held out. She must have dropped her demand that cast members be paid by the moan.

Microsoft is giving Xbox 360 owners longer warranties. It seems they’re prone to “general hardware failure,” aka the “red ring of death.” If you get one, you have to use many of your 17,000 words talking to tech support.