I am a college English instructor, so I have a lot of discussion in my class. Sometimes, when everyone is silent, I'd like to have a little device that makes the sound of crickets chirping to make fun of the silence. I suppose it would lose its novelty after a while, but it would be funny the first time with a class.
-- EdisonsTwin, Dec 12 2006

Electronic Cricket kit, $9.95 http://store.qkits.com/moreinfo.cfm/MK104
[jutta, Dec 13 2006]

Eric Carle: The Very Quiet Cricket http://www.amazon.c...458?ie=UTF8&s=books
Comes with a sound generator (turn the last page)! [jutta, Dec 13 2006]

here is another one http://www.funinc.c...id=18425&cat=&page=
[xandram, Dec 13 2006]

Another use for this, perhaps? Tumbleweed_20Dispenser
[phundug, Dec 13 2006]

ET, You would have hated me as a student! In high school any time a teacher made a stupid joke and the room went quiet I would say " Cricket, Cricket, Cricket". Most teachers sent me away to the office while the class just laughed at the joke.
-- Chefboyrbored, Dec 12 2006


I'd have batted your ear.
-- po, Dec 13 2006


Yeah, good point. I'd have said that, but I actually had trouble finding a plain sound generator, rather than a kit. (So, nice searching, xandram!)

Can't you make a cricket-y sound by running a fingernail quickly across the teeth of a fine comb?
-- jutta, Dec 13 2006


<performs curtsey>
-- xandram, Dec 13 2006


Or possibly a device, much like a clay pigeon launcher, that fires a small tumbleweed across the room and plays a "wind whistling" noise?

Ithankyew.
-- neuro, Dec 14 2006


Damn. Just seen someone got there before me. As you were.
-- neuro, Dec 14 2006



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