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| What does RA sound like? (Read 497 times) |
| view log Playmaker / nemesis |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:04 PM
modified: 3/17/2008 at 8:11 PM |
You ever become aware of what your "reading voice" sounds like in your head? I've noticed that when I read RA posts, folks tend to "sound" like the following:
• If I have a notion of what the poster looks like, they tend to "sound" like someone I know in real life that resembles them (or a celebrity they resemble).
•Folks posting from the UK/British Isles sound like a Monty Python sketch in my head. In general, my brain tends to assign a stereotypical regional accent when I'm aware of the poster's locale. That's one reason why I avoid "Nashvillian" threads because they start sounding like a "Hee-Haw" sketch in my brain.
•(Hippie) Jeff "sounds" like Jeff Spicoli. Spicoli was more of a stoner than a hippie, but hey, like there's a difference.
•People who use "celebrity" avatars tend to sound like them. PerfesserR sounds like his avatar, the Professor from Gulligan's Island.
•Mikeymike "sounds" like a Kennedy.
•Scout sounds a sterotypical Philly accent, a cross between Rocky Balboa with a little Tony Soprano thrown in. Which is to say, not a true Philly accent, but more like the movies, who tend to get it wrong. But hey, it's my head, ok?
•And then of course, there's JakeKnight. In my head, he sounds like you would imagine a gorilla would talk -- gruff, loud, and guttural. Think Michael Clarke Duncan in the horrible Planet of the Apes remake.
Does this happen to any of you, or am I just crazy? Or have I just made you all consciously aware of something you haven't ever noticed before, and you now hate me with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns? |
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21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
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posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:17 PM |
Hmm, I just read the posts. They don't sound like anything to me. Maybe I'm more visual than auditory?
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Scout7 view logCPT Curmudgeon |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:22 PM |
| You sound a lot like your mom, Jeff. Loud, and screaming all the time. |
Amat victoria curam.
Sine labore nihil.
Dulcius ex asperis. |
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| view log Ball Tongue |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:25 PM |
Well Jeff, I must admit lately you sounded like Ed McMahon to me. You're correct, sir!
But then you switched to Johnny...wild and crazy stuff...
So, since you can't land on one and stick from now on you're going to sound in my head like Stephen Hawking's talking computer. |
| The Gaijin Samurai. a.k.a The attorney dissin' attorney.
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| view log mmm... monkey brains |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:32 PM |
| Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 3/17/2008 at 8:04 PM: blah blah blah blah
You're a UM grad, you sound like... man, I can't even come up with anything good.
yes, I do this too, Jeff. It's not just you. |
Drew
Road to the Monkey
Just run, baby.
Your hide will make a fine poncho. |
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| view log Playmaker / nemesis |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:35 PM |
| Quote from Scout7 on 3/17/2008 at 8:22 PM: You sound a lot like your mom, Jeff. Loud, and screaming all the time.
I think I showed a lot of restraint in my original post, Scout, since I could have easily thrown down the same, simplistic, amateur joke; I chose maturity over sophomoric "humor". Speaking of restraint, your mom left her handcuffs on my nightstand again.
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20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20 |25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
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| view log Girl On The Run |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:38 PM |
So what do I sound like... 
Hint: more times than I can count people who have never "seen" me, but have talked to me on the phone have said that they had a completely different image of me based-upon my voice. |
Kirsten . . . --> GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS <--
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.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k |
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Scout7 view logCPT Curmudgeon |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:44 PM |
| I don't sound anything like South Philly, or New Jersey. I don't wear a South Philly tuxedo, I don't wear jewelry, and I'm not covered in body hair. |
Amat victoria curam.
Sine labore nihil.
Dulcius ex asperis. |
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| view log Ball Tongue |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:46 PM |
| Quote from Scout7 on 3/17/2008 at 8:44 PM: I don't wear a South Philly tuxedo
???
Velvet track suit?
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| The Gaijin Samurai. a.k.a The attorney dissin' attorney.
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Scout7 view logCPT Curmudgeon |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:50 PM |
| Quote from DJ Marcus on 3/17/2008 at 8:46 PM: ???
Velvet track suit?
That'd be it. |
Amat victoria curam.
Sine labore nihil.
Dulcius ex asperis. |
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| view log Playmaker / nemesis |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:53 PM
modified: 3/17/2008 at 8:53 PM |
| Quote from zoom-zoom on 3/17/2008 at 8:38 PM: Hint: more times than I can count people who have never "seen" me, but have talked to me on the phone have said that they had a completely different image of me based-upon my voice.
We'll you're charging them by the minute on those phone calls, so you have to make it worth their while, right?
[oh, snap]
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses.  |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20 |25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
What are you doing? |
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| view log mmm... monkey brains |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:54 PM |
| Nice job, Jeffrey. Very nice. |
Drew
Road to the Monkey
Just run, baby.
Your hide will make a fine poncho. |
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| view log Ball Tongue |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:55 PM |
| Quote from Scout7 on 3/17/2008 at 8:50 PM: That'd be it.
Nice. I have also heard them called Brooklyn Blazers. Definitive guido wear. [1/4 guido here] |
| The Gaijin Samurai. a.k.a The attorney dissin' attorney.
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| view log Girl On The Run |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 8:57 PM |
Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 3/17/2008 at 8:53 PM:We'll you're charging them by the minute on those phone calls, so you have to make it worth their while, right? [oh, snap] Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses.
*kick* (this time aims higher than shins) |
Kirsten . . . --> GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS <--
• Ladies Locker Room •
.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k |
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| view log Hurdle the Dead |
posted: 3/17/2008 at 9:59 PM |
| Quote from Scout7 on 3/17/2008 at 8:22 PM: You sound a lot like your mom, Jeff. Loud, and screaming all the time.
Nice!
Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 3/17/2008 at 8:35 PM:I think I showed a lot of restraint in my original post, Scout, since I could have easily thrown down the same, simplistic, amateur joke; I chose maturity over sophomoric "humor". Speaking of restraint, your mom left her handcuffs on my nightstand again.
Nicer!
And FYI: I sound soothing and melodious. |
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~~ Jack Kerley, The Hundredth Man
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