High-pitched noises
Dec. 3rd, 2011 04:11 amCollected in part from discussion in #dreamwidth-bitch, participants including Azz, jeshyr, due, Inoru, _Simon_:
Scream 3 octaves higher than normal
Scream like a piccolo
Scream like a soprano with laryngitis?
Scream like a teakettle?
Scream like a dog whistle (hyperbole!)
Scream like castrati?
Scream like you just sat on a cactus
Squeak like a bunch of grade three kids who've studied violin for eight weeks (Squeak like a handful of pre-Twinklers)
Clash like a badly tuned piano?
Squeal like a piano meeting a bulldozer!
Shriek like brakes that need new pads.
Shriek like brakes that have a stone caught in them
Squeak like Adam Savage on helium
Shriek like an excited toddler in a swimming pool
Why the cacophony?![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rb found an insect in hir hair, and there was shrieking. And since for a number of very good reasons rb does not use the phrase "scream like a little girl" (starting with sexism and progressing through fun-with-kyriarchy), there was a sudden outburst of brainstorming and related hilarity.
(If you've never heard pre-Twinklers at work, I recommend it. Once. When one listens to music, one doesn't necessarily think about what happens in order to make music, and the sounds that emit from the instruments of the neophytes is one reason why practice rooms get soundproofed. It's sort of like the classic aphorisms about sausage-making and creating laws, except after a while the sounds get better.)
(And then imagine a horde of 3- to 7-year-old pre-Twinklers with candy slide whistles. You may be wincing, but consider: that was my first job.)
Scream 3 octaves higher than normal
Scream like a piccolo
Scream like a soprano with laryngitis?
Scream like a teakettle?
Scream like a dog whistle (hyperbole!)
Scream like castrati?
Scream like you just sat on a cactus
Squeak like a bunch of grade three kids who've studied violin for eight weeks (Squeak like a handful of pre-Twinklers)
Clash like a badly tuned piano?
Squeal like a piano meeting a bulldozer!
Shriek like brakes that need new pads.
Shriek like brakes that have a stone caught in them
Squeak like Adam Savage on helium
Shriek like an excited toddler in a swimming pool
Why the cacophony?
rb found an insect in hir hair, and there was shrieking. And since for a number of very good reasons rb does not use the phrase "scream like a little girl" (starting with sexism and progressing through fun-with-kyriarchy), there was a sudden outburst of brainstorming and related hilarity. (If you've never heard pre-Twinklers at work, I recommend it. Once. When one listens to music, one doesn't necessarily think about what happens in order to make music, and the sounds that emit from the instruments of the neophytes is one reason why practice rooms get soundproofed. It's sort of like the classic aphorisms about sausage-making and creating laws, except after a while the sounds get better.)
(And then imagine a horde of 3- to 7-year-old pre-Twinklers with candy slide whistles. You may be wincing, but consider: that was my first job.)
