Another public service announcement

[kestrell]

Every once in a while, my favorite blog, "The Art of Darkness," posts a list of amusing things the blogger has seen online. I found the most recent of these posts
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=16502
particularly entertaining, as it included, among other quotes, the following:

"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work." JiminyKicksIt

"I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert “by zombies” after the verb, you have passive voice." johnsonr

and
dammit owls you KNOW who this is" donni.

However, I feel compelled to correct a misapprehension of sighties as expressed in the following statement:

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man doesn’t really have to wear clothes ever. KenJennings

In my experience, I can almost always tell when a man is naked, because there are basically two kinds of men (outside of one's partner) in the world.

One is the kind of man who sounds really embarrassed when accidentally caught naked, even by a blind woman.

The other kind of man sounds really proud when caught naked, even by a blind woman.

Three- or four-year-old boys exhibit no particular affect when caught naked by anybody. (I have my suspicions that housemate T. falls into this category.)

Comments

[kestrell]

I'm not sure what makes me think of certain females as D-cup. I first became aware of it while listening to an episode of "Charmed"; I think that it is a combination of how high heels and the resultant thrusting out of the chest area affects the voice. It's not that the woman may be actively trying to produce that breathy tone which our culture associates with sexy women, but that the heels, tight skirt, and the constriction of the upper body due to push-up bras and other "body shapers" conform the body to the posture where producing anything *other* breathy speech is impossible.

I note that the Holy Grail of synthetic speech is to produce the sexy female voice. Every few years, I run across someone who tells me that programmers are still working on this, and that breathiness seems to be the tricky part. How to tell the little dears that it's going to be difficult to reproduce that when there are no lungs to add the breath part?

[jesse_the_k]

But there are plenty of us with D or DD cups who don't go for the high heels. And plenty of high-heelers in Wonderbras who'd measure out as a B cup.

We need to investigate further ... for science. An onsite visit must be planned.