BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:30 PM

Here's a real neat piece of information, folks, from the world of science. Some research scientest fella down in Tennessee named Randolph Blake has found out somethin' interesting about that really annoying sound of nails screechin' on a blackboard...

"The acoustics prize honoured research into another of those timeless questions, why do fingernails screeching on a blackboard send chills down the spine of virtually everyone who hears the sound?

Volunteers rated the sound of a three-pronged garden rake on slate top of the annoyance scale, followed by metal on metal and Styrofoam rubbing against itself, says Randolph Blake, now at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, US.

His experiments showed the frequencies in the middle of the audio range were the ones that drove people up the wall. Blake says chimpanzee warning cries "are remarkably similar to fingernails on a chalkboard". It is possible our reactions are instinctive, hearkening back to warning signals screeched by our pre-human ancestors when they spotted a sabre-tooth on the prowl, he suggests.

Blake shares the prize with former colleagues Lynn Halpern and James Hillenbrand.

Pretty cool, huh? I have used "the screech" on any number of occasions and I can tell ya, it drives people nuts! LOL! I use it to put gunsels off their aim. Really freaks 'em out. It is a great attention-getter.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:42 PM

I know a woman who reacts the same way to butter being worked into sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:51 PM

Huh? But that don't make a sound, does it?

- Chongo

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From: Bee
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 01:58 PM

Try it, Chongo - it does make a sound, a gritty, crunchy, yet swooshy sound - I don't mind it, but I can see hw it might bug someone.

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From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 02:01 PM

No kiddin'? Okay, I will give it a try. I can always use another gimmick for questioning suspects and witnesses who ain't inclined to be too cooperative. What temperature should the butter be? How soft?

- Chongo

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From: Bee
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 02:07 PM

Harder butter makes slightly more noise. It ain't what you'd call loud.

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 02:46 PM

The national Newfoundland tipple Screech doesn't produce the same effects. Does your head in though.

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From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 03:33 PM

Have you ever kissed the cod, Billy?

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From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 04:42 PM

Also a name often used for farmhouse (rough) cider

CHEERS
Nigel

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From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 06:38 PM

The smell of burning starfish sperm makes me nostalgic for Oregon!

Different strokes!!

Art!!!

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 06:42 PM

They have to use cod from other parts of the world now. But the Harlow Campus of St John's University maintains the tradition anyway.

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 06:54 PM

I know someone who had the same reaction to the feel of cotton balls. The rubbing of the fibers together had the exact same effect.

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 06:57 PM

Hey, you bozos! This ain't a thread about hooch. It's a thread about screechy sounds. Not that I object to hooch or nothin', but yer off-topic.

- Chongo

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From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 07:22 PM

Depends on what itch yer scratchin, Chong-oh.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:02 PM

Can you get Screech in Edmonton? I'd like to pick some up when I go up there in August. I like rum, by gum!

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From: Bee
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:08 PM

Likely, Rapaire: there'a about a bazillion Newfoundlanders and Maritimers out west, somebody will be selling it.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 09:52 PM

Now it's a music thread!

MY HEART'S IN CAPE BRETON TONIGHT
Words and Music by Steve Romanoff

It's a Saturday night, and we're out on the town,
My new friends and me, all alone,
We will sing the old lovesongs,
We'll make toasts all around,
To living, to loving, to home,
Then I think of just how much I miss you,
And it seems I've been out here for years,
Then someone will play an old fiddle tune,
And I'll have to hold back the tears...

        So forgive me, my friends, if I seem far away,
        In a moment I should be all right,
        Though my hands hold me here, working day after day,
        My heart's in Cape Breton, tonight.

Since I left Nova Scotia for the work I have found,
I have kept all my memories within,
Of the warm nights and laughter in Waterford Town,
Or the lights on the causeway with the fog rollin' in.
Then I think of just how much I miss you,
And it seems I've been out here for years,
Then someone will play an old fiddle tune,
And I start to find my way home...

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 11:30 PM

So I get to my fiance's place, but I don't see her anywhere; I just figure she's stepped out to her friend's next door or somethin'. I hear her washing machine, which is in the john, running. I step in there to drain the weasel. It isn't the washing machine running; it's the shower. She isn't accustomed yet to finding me standing there when she steps out of the shower.

I've never heard a SCREEEEEECH quite like that before or since. : )

(Nor have I seen anything lovlier to me).

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 08:12 AM

I have no problems with fingernails down blackboards....

The sound that gets me is someone behind me opening and closing scissors.... eeuuuuugggh!!!

LTS

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From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 09:43 PM

Screech is available in South Portland, ME. Good though...

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From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 05:27 PM

With you on that cotton-ball feel, can't bear them ! Similar sensation when tearing the paper back on a new tin of custard powder .AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! - just thinking of it is enough to curl my toenails.

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From: Naemanson
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 06:38 PM

Hmm, how can I get some of that Screech out here to Guam. Sins, if I send you some money can you send me a bottle?

I have a friend here whose favorite tipple is tequila. I'd like to introduce him to something else.

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 06:54 PM

...chimpanzee warning cries "are remarkably similar to fingernails on a chalkboard".

So when we think "chimpanzee" we shouldn't think "ferocious" or "menacing, merely "annoying".

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From: GUEST,Marion
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 07:59 PM

What I find most horrifying is the sound (or even my imagination of the sound) of two rusty objects rubbing together.

Marion

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From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 08:18 PM

Your wish is my command, Brett. Address still the same? I should make you bring Wakana here for a visit and Christmas Tree Shop tour. Then you can find your own Screech. I bought Screech for the name and then discovered it was something of a legend when Peter and Joanne Souza showed up. Those two are another reason you need to get back to Maine.
SINS

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From: Wordsmith
Date: 01 May 07 - 04:31 AM

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Test this link: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5680/Events/5680/DustinDiam_Grant_12308436_400.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Diamond,%20Du

Shucks, I thought this was a discussion of this Screech.

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From: Naemanson
Date: 01 May 07 - 09:49 AM

Address is the same, if you have the Agat address. How much do I owe you?

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,SINS at work
Date: 01 May 07 - 11:26 AM

3 Hours shoppig time with Wakana should do it.
SINS

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From: gnu
Date: 02 May 07 - 06:18 AM

So, am I the only one to ever kiss the cod? NObody else been Screeched In?

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From: gnu
Date: 02 May 07 - 01:10 PM

This is kinda like a real screeching in. Mine involved a quart of screech and a real cod.... as well as I can recall.

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From: Naemanson
Date: 02 May 07 - 06:13 PM

Well, Gnu, I have a carved puffin here in Guam and Sins says she'll send me some Screech, but I don't feel that I could follow those instructions honestly because I have never been to Newfoundland. However, I am familiar with the rivalry between the Newfies and the Novies. Here is a taste. It's better done in person.

How does a Newfie count fish?

He has two baskets, one full of fish and one empty.

He picks up a fish from the full basket and sets it in the empty basket.

"One fish."

He transfers another fish.

"Two fish"

He picks up another fish. A look of confusion crosses his face. He concentrates. He smiles widely.

"'Nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish, nudder fish..."

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 May 07 - 06:28 PM

You bozos are incredible. This friggin' thread is not about Newfie screech. It's about really loud and unpleasant sounds that drive people nuts. If you keep digressin' to talk about cheap hooch I will ask a Joe Clone to rename the goddamn thread! Got it?

- Chongo

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From: Naemanson
Date: 02 May 07 - 10:51 PM

If you want an unpleasant sound just listen to any administration in charge of any country...

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From: Peace
Date: 03 May 07 - 12:33 AM

"What I find most horrifying is the sound (or even my imagination of the sound) of two rusty objects rubbing together."

It is almost painful to keep from typing the first few things that came to my mind with that statement.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:55 AM

For me, it's the sound of your average TV or commercial radio station going on...and on...and on...and on...

I want to do violence to something after awhile. Elvis had the right idea when he shot up his TV with a handgun.

Subject: RE: BS: SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Naemanson
Date: 03 May 07 - 05:22 AM

Last night Wakana and I were watching a program we'd recorded. As we ran fast forward through the commercials she once again expressed her surprise at the sheer number of commercials. On Japanese TV they do not take up all the watching time with commercials.

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From: gnu
Date: 03 May 07 - 06:20 AM

LH : "It's about really loud and unpleasant sounds that drive people nuts."

You've never heard someone the "next" morning.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:33 PM

Gnu, how on Earth would you know what I have or have not heard "the next morning"?

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From: GUEST,Billy the Bunnie
Date: 04 May 07 - 11:27 AM

For me, the most irritating sounds I know are the English Public-School accents, whether the yapping quack of some or the lazy drawl of others, the latter once described as an "articulated yawn".

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From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge
Date: 04 May 07 - 02:33 PM

The articulated yawn, my dear fellow, is an affectation of those who are aspiring toward an upper class existence which forever lurks tantalizingly just out of their reach...or alternatively, those who are mired in it already but cannot quite decide what it's really all for. While such things can be annoying, one should learn to have compassion for one's fellow humans and just put up with it.

I personally find the loud "blathering at the bar" which monied gentlemen and their friends engage in whilst trying to impress one another far more irritating. There is a certain tolerance that should be extended toward the young, I feel, as they are finding their way in life and can be expected to make errors. Men past the age of 35, however, should have gained enough wisdom to demonstrate a little maturity, don't you think? In other words, for them it is well "past curfew".

* PR

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From: gnu
Date: 04 May 07 - 07:36 PM

Well, LH, I don't. But, if you had heard someone wretching and moaning about the Screech of the night before.....

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From: GUEST,Billy the Bunnie
Date: 05 May 07 - 11:35 AM

Tend to agree that the loud "Me Me Me" verbalizing to which Ms PR refers is intensely annoying, but still find the actual SOUND of the articulated yawn and the quack-quack-quack-yaah affected accents to be irritating in and of themselves. I remember some twenty years ago, taking the Train from London to Windsor, being forced to endure a "conversation" bewteen two women which consisted entirely of how much their houses were worth and how much their most recent holidays had cost. If it were a genuine "conversation", what pathetic lives these people lead. If it were designed as an elaborate Public School "joke" at the expense of an impecunious Northerner, what pathetic lives these people lead.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 May 07 - 01:41 PM

Sounds like you got a chance to listen to the UK equivalent of Paris Hilton and her friend... ;-)

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 May 07 - 10:11 PM

Flanders and Swann put it best in their song 'Sounding Brass'... The object is to 'Gunga Din' your neighbour - I'm a better man than you's the acid test.

LTS