Stupid Sounds

• POP is a sound when a clone materializes. Tell your web search engine to look for the Firesign Theatre for additional information. Once--when I was working for a company that believed in putting their employees into cubicals rather than offices--I overheard a conversation that would lead up to my involvement. With thumb firmly planted in cheek, I waited on a chair and POP'd up over the cube when my name was mentioned--okay, you had to be there.
• Eye-Yi is a sound I heard as a kid when watching cartoons. If you want to express confusion, it's easy to reproduce if you have an Adam's apple.
• Ah-Ah-AH-ah-ah is a sound I learned from a friend--Lonnie McKee--in the fourth grade. Lonnie was cool. Not only could he make funny sound effects, but he could create belches that would last forever. It didn't stop there. He could vomit whenever he wanted. Once, three or four of us got into a snowball fight with some kids from the next block. We were losing until Lonnie packed a snowball, puked some orange-looking goo on it, and threw it smack-dab onto one of our opponent's coat. The kid looked at it in surprize...the rest of our rivals looked at it--and they all fled. But nevermindthat. When I got out of the Army, I went to visit my sister who was divorced and had two small children (3-6 years old). When I arrived, I asked to see her kids. She told me that they were playing in the basement and that she would call them for me. I told her I would do it and let loose with the above sound effect while leaning close to a register. (The house had a furnace in the basement with pipes leading to the registers above--the sound carried.) There was a moment of silence, then sounds of feet rapidly stomping up the stairs. My sister was mad at me because her kids would not go down into the basement for three weeks afterwards (the basement was their rainy-day playroom).
• Drop is a sound effect that Tom Happ--a fellow GI--taught me when a bunch of us were stationed in West Berlin. At night we'd make sound effects like that just to keep the others from sleeping. (It can be really frightening when you consider that the U.S. Government gave top-secret security clearances to people like me during the Cold War.)

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