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I like the sound of a woodpecker foraging, the “br-a-a-a-a-t” rapid fire pecking sound, echoing in the distance. But I’d really like a big, mechanical, compressed air-powered woodpecker. It could be clamped halfway up a pecan tree, to shake those pecans out.
Below the branches, I’d place a specially
designed large musical Caribbean steel drum, to surround the trunk, to funnel the pecans into one spot. When pecans fall, they’ll hit the drum, to create a brief calypso cascade.
In the fall, I’ll clamp the Woodpecker of Doom to a loaded pecan tree, set up the drum and start the compressor. At the flick of a switch, “BR-A-A-A-A-T” goes the bird, shaking the tree in an ear-splitting, earth-shattering roar, causing a flock of crows 2 miles away, in fact everything in the blast radius, to flee in terror. This will be followed by a few seconds of the “clink-thunk-clankity-clank” of the steelpan. Wait, I think I see a pecan still clinging on for dear life up there…
And that’s it, in a nutshell.
Pecan Tree Shaker
http://www.youtube....watch?v=rQXJfYJrumo
No kidding, it’s how you get 'em. [Amos Kito, Feb 12 2008, last modified Oct 15 2012]
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Ever been in an MRI machine? |
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Loud noises, pecan nuts, calypso, bun. |
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Animals, doom, steelpan, croissant. |
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//Ever been in an MRI machine?//
Yes, but it didn't have that lovely pecan nuttiness to look forward to. [+] |
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You could call it Bubo, hang on, nope that was an owl + |
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[+], purely for the closing pun. |
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There are titan bags in Warsaw? |
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+ love the nutty idea, esp. the Steel drum! |
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Mm. Brings back pleasant memories of pile drivers at work on distant building sites. |
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(Having also been in an MRI machine, and having had so little to distract me, I dozed off, I'm just wondering if jutta maybe got fobbed off with a dryer with a quarter in it...?) |
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I used to live close to a neighborhood ballpark with lots of lightpoles, and there were a few pileated woodpeckers in the area. |
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If you hear the loud TATATAT, that's the male announcing his territory. Pecking for food is much more subtle. |
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One of our local males discovered banging on our aluminum siding, and also the big transformer cans at the tops of lightpoles. I wonder what the other woodpeckers made of that. |
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MRI was interesting. After a while of laying perfectly still, the repetitive sound started to seem like a human vocalization. It was just like a guy going "Kaloodj. Kaloodj. Kaloodj." |
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Then they changed to a different (?Wavelength?) and it was a lady saying "Yippah. Yippah. Yippah." |
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P.S. I hate sitting still. |
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<snort> Bird. But sometimes... |
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//Ever been in an MRI machine?//
If I only had a nickel for every time someone's asked me that. |
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