Thursday, May 19, 2011

Land of Lost Sounds

When trying to write something serious, there is always room - nay, there SHOULD always be room - for procrastinating. Today's offering:

Which sounds, linked to your childhood, are ones your children will likely never know and/or immediately recognize?

Go!

1. The chink-chink-chink-whhiiiirrr of a rotary-dial phone.
2. Zzzzzppphhhhtclickbeeeeppppp of dial-up internet.
3. TV "snow"
4. Simon: The Game
5. "Flip" sound on digital clocks as each minute passes.
6.  The sound of a Big Wheel on the sidewalk.
7. "Press play on Tape 1"
8. "Click-click-click" of a video projector
9. The Voice - Mark Dailey (Ontario only)
10. Dinner bells from the back porch
11. "Goodnight, John-Boy..."
12. The anticipatory scratchy fullness of a needle on a record (We have a turntable and hundreds of records - plan to one day, someday, set 'em all up and have ourselves a party.)
13. The "ding" of a car pulling into a family-owned gas station.
13b. "Ping-ping-ping" of a gas station air pump.
14. Typewriter pings.
15. Cash register rings.
16. "Chuuut-chhhuttt" of a credit card imprint machine
17. Mail sliding through a slot in the front door.
18. "AOL's" iconic "Ping! You've got mail!"
19. Creaky-squeaks of a merry-go-round.


Play along! Which sounds do you remember?

14 comments:

  1. The sound of changing the channel on the tv tuner on the tv.

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  2. We have #17 so my boys can cross that off of the list! ;)

    I'm not sure if I can describe it or if you'll know what I'm talking about, but I remember the push button radios in cars back in the day. My parents would listen to AM radio on it and it would make a clicking noise in the background.

    The noise of putting something in your bike spokes (like a card) to click as your rode your bike.

    The bell dinging of the scissor/knife sharpening man that would drive his little cart/car through the neighborhood.

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  3. Listening to a movie at the drive in on the speaker attached to your car.

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  4. Ice cream truck

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  5. We still hear "Dickie Dee" bells here. But most parents are too paranoid to let their children chase a stranger for yummy, lactose-laden treats!

    Drive-in speakers, thunk-of-dial-changer = Awesome suggestion!

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  6. Cassette type noise coming from your boombox

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  7. ^^Worse yet...the sound of that cassette tape being crinkled and ruined in that boombox!! lol

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  8. Bbbaaaahhhhaaa: cassette tapes being chewed by boombox. Best one yet!

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  9. How about the sound of the coin operated lock in the public washroom

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  10. or better yet, the sound of your mother telling you to sneak under the door of the locked public washroom door.

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  11. the sound of squishing your styrofoam burger container into the garabage at McDonalds

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  12. The crinkling plastic sound that disposable diapers used to make when toddlers ran around in them. This is a hard one for me to let go of actually. I was like a second mother to my siblings, and couldn't wait to grow up and have children of my own. One of the things I intended to enjoy thoroughly was the sound of their diapers when they were running about.

    *SIGH*

    I am now thinking that my childhood memories are a little odd.

    Thanks Liz. *snort*

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  13. A busy signal on the telephone

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  14. The sound of a 9-pin dot matrix printer.

    Listening for the right ring on your phone (i.e. a party line!)

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