Familiar Sounds

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  1. Hal Pollner

    Hal Pollner Veteran Member
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    Jalopy door closing: "Ka-runch"

    Limousine door closing: "Whoomp"

    Cash register operating: "Ka Ching"

    Do you agree?..... Let's hear yours!
    Hal
     
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    My husband's absent-minded whistling as he works on something.

    The cooing of the mourning doves that visit our patio each day.

    Televised football game crowd noise, that I won't be hearing again this year.

    The distinctive click of my dad's Zippo lighter. (That one is just a memory now. )
     
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    Coffee pot "gurgle."

    Refrigerator "hummmmm."

    Toilet "flushhhhhhhh."

    Mailbox door "creak."

    Patio door "sliiiiide."

    Couch "creak."

    Keys "jingle."

    Zipper "zip!"

    McDonald's fryer "sizzle."
     
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    Insects at night in late summer. I can't describe in words.

    PLAY SOUND

    Btw, I think these are mostly katydids, not locusts.
     
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    Bullfrogs at night. Not so familiar unless you live by a pond, but very distinctive.

     
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    I worked with a guy here in Virginia who relocated from California. They don't have katydids out his way.
    "The trees are talking to me!"

    Regarding bullfrogs...I'm surrounded by them. I drive down my right-of-way at night and hear them on both sides of me. Beaver have dammed up a small stream on a far corner of my property and I hear the frogs off in the distance.

    It makes me smile...the sound of a healthy ecosystem.
     
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    Crickets at night. Spring Peepers in the spring. Song birds singing.
     
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    Slipping on the rug Wooooooooup
     
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    Flat tire - flap, flap, flap

    Dove's morning call - oowe, oo oo oowe ooo

    Cats fighting - yeeow!! yeeow, skkk, skkk!!!
     
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    Hmmm...I still don't believe you're getting the idea....look up the word "Onomatopoeia", which uses created words to simulate the actual sounds of the activity, not words in the Dictionary.

    (Refer to my 3 examples):)

    Hal
     
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    It would have been helpful if you had put your instructions in the first post so we'd have had a clue what you wanted. o_O

    "Oink", said the pig.
     
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    "Bullshit"
    said the cow.
     
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    Mooooo
     
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    The sound of one hand clapping.........
     
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  15. Hal Pollner

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    I remember that one, Bobby...it was when the Freudian jokes were making the rounds in the 60's.

    Another one was:

    "If a tree fell in the Forest and nobody was around to hear it...would it make a noise?"

    Hal
     
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