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Jerry Friedman with another useless fact	Folksong advice (21)	RE: Folksong advice	23 Nov 98
The police siren is named after the mythological siren. Originally it was supposed to be a musical instrument, and the inventor found that it sounded especially good under water, so he named it after Homer's aquatic singers. It never caught on for any tune but "eeeeoooooeeeeeoooo..." though (or are those the lyrics?).

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