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longtex
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These gawd awful things have been around quite a while.
I believe they were once sold in - or in the vicinity of - what I used to know simply as Memorial Stadium, because I distinctly recall a story I read somewhere, somewhen, that contained a phrase along the lines of "Longhorn fans were just settling down to some serious tootling on the orange plastic horns..."
I was not personally present at the game referred to - I have a vague impression that it was in the Mackovic era.
Did this, in fact, occur? One hopes not, but it seems possible.
My inclination would be, if someone in my immediate vicinity were to commence tootling - serious or otherwise, to make the horn and its operator (I don't think the word "musician" is justifiable for someone making sounds on such a thing) the subjects of an experiment to determine whether a Vuvuzela might be marketed, without fear of false or misleading advertising, as either an enema assistance device or a sex toy, although the likelihood is that it would merely serve as a flatulence amplifier... still, it would be an interesting experiment, and very satisfactory if the sound is eliminated, or at least substituted by groans, moans, or screams, preferably accompanied by rapid footsteps.
Would noise-canceling headphones do a decent job on Vuvuzela buzzing? I'm under the impression that they work well on fairly steady "noise" sounds... and listening to the feed on the WC games, I think the sound meets that definition... hmmm??
I believe they were once sold in - or in the vicinity of - what I used to know simply as Memorial Stadium, because I distinctly recall a story I read somewhere, somewhen, that contained a phrase along the lines of "Longhorn fans were just settling down to some serious tootling on the orange plastic horns..."
I was not personally present at the game referred to - I have a vague impression that it was in the Mackovic era.
Did this, in fact, occur? One hopes not, but it seems possible.
My inclination would be, if someone in my immediate vicinity were to commence tootling - serious or otherwise, to make the horn and its operator (I don't think the word "musician" is justifiable for someone making sounds on such a thing) the subjects of an experiment to determine whether a Vuvuzela might be marketed, without fear of false or misleading advertising, as either an enema assistance device or a sex toy, although the likelihood is that it would merely serve as a flatulence amplifier... still, it would be an interesting experiment, and very satisfactory if the sound is eliminated, or at least substituted by groans, moans, or screams, preferably accompanied by rapid footsteps.
Would noise-canceling headphones do a decent job on Vuvuzela buzzing? I'm under the impression that they work well on fairly steady "noise" sounds... and listening to the feed on the WC games, I think the sound meets that definition... hmmm??
