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Chirrup Ticket
Bonus points for the first use of the word "chirrup" on the bakery? | |
In London, when you scan your Oyster
card
at the station turnstile the machine
makes a
high-pitched "bip bip" noise.
At Leicester Square this morning during
rush
hour, the cacophony of beeps reminded
me
of a field full of crickets, like the ones I
remember from hot, continental holidays.
Changing the noise to a
chirrup would
make
it sound more peaceful, subdue the
stress of
rush hour and inevitably reduce knife
crime.
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a pigeon's coo is rather nice |
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couldn't we choose our own bird song? |
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I used Cheroot in an idea title- does that
count? |
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The sound of a tennis racket hitting a tennis ball. |
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Po, what about a pigeon's coo when the
oyster's got no cash on it? |
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Hmmm. Out of context, that question
would appear quite peculiar... |
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//Bonus points for the first use of the word "chirrup" on the bakery?// - yes but there's a Dark Side too. "Apparently", once every word there is has been used at least once on the Halfbakery, it'll self-destruct. Jeroboam. |
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in that case we should vote for a word that is banished for ever. |
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//when the oyster's got no cash on it//
Well then of course, you'd use the oyster-catcher's "caw" |
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//in that case we should vote for a
word that is banished for ever// |
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How do we tell everyone what the word
is if we can't write it down? How will we
mention it to new folk who come along
and precariously write about a related
subject, skirting dangerously around
the ominous word with every fleeting
disastrous sentence? |
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//How do we tell everyone what the word is if we can't write it down?// I knew some bright spark would ask that - hieroglyphs of course. |
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I'm having disturbing flashbacks to the episode of Futurama in which Bender is fitted with a bomb that detonates when he uses the word 'ass'. |
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I think a "pip" would be best |
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For a small charge, let customers select and store their own brief sound effects on their ticket. |
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// How do we tell everyone what the word is if we can't write it down ? // |
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Is it by any any chance the word that the Knights that say "NI!" cannot hear ? |
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How about the "satisfied sigh" the door makes in HHGTTG? |
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Personalising each card's sound effect would be fun, but with an infinite range of sounds all played in unison as the rush hour hordes plough through the barriers, the net effect will be to make the whole experience even more painful than it already is. |
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It needs to be sounds that work well together, like crickets or different types of bird song. |
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theleopard, I find it deplorable that a habitually undisruptive individual such as yourself would malevolently endeavor to create the concluding stages of the era of the halfbakery with such gratuitous, superfluous use of extraordinary verbiage. Shame on you. |
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The sounds of cattle, though more
appropriate, would however do little to
inspirit the commuters. |
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(Damn! There goes another one... "inspirit" that is.) |
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Or for the complete opposite effect, (unique to each turnstile of course) dalek-voices shouting "Exterminate!!!" |
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Snarfing Oysters is nearing completion with Adi Shamir's cube attack (Crypto2008). Just about all LFSR's are under attack, most vunerable are the "proprietory" (non-peer-reviewed) encryption methods of the transport lines. Several of these are already laid bare. Bus and building access, mobile "talk-time" vouchers. Perhaps those chirping crickets are the crytographers' response? |
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I checked, and this is the third outing for the words unctuous, quadrille and tabbard on the 'bakery. |
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frangipane appears once before now (this being the second occasion) - as a user who never said anything. |
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sillywillywoowoo, however - has never appeared within these lofty spaces before now. |
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Indeed, even incunabular ideas don't
include the word "metrorrhagia". |
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But that's probably a good thing. |
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