# How do you write this noise?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 8, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341 "2000-11-08T17:42:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/21 "2000-11-09T05:22:33Z")

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scuppetyscuppetyscuppetyscuppety **SPLANGARANGARANGARANGARANG!!!**  
_(Or is that a puppy crashing into a soup tureen?)_

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/22 "2000-11-09T05:33:30Z")

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[bowling sounds]

Rollrollrollrollrollrollroll smackity whack whackity clack!

[/bowling sounds]

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**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/23 "2000-11-09T14:10:26Z")

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Just grab a sound file of a ball hitting some pins, then play it down the microphone of a speech-to-text program. See what appears on screen.

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**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/24 "2000-11-09T14:53:38Z")

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oh, eh, MadHatter wants to take the easy way out…

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**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/25 "2000-11-09T15:06:20Z")

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I’ve got some, and some have already been posted"BOOOOOOOOLLLING"  
“rollrollrollrollrollPickangCRashBoom!”  
“Boppity Boingk bang”  
“STRIKE!”

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**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/26 "2000-11-09T15:23:40Z")

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I think this is my favorite aspect of comic books- how to write sounds.

The best written sound i ever hear was in the James O’ Barr Crow comic, where Gideon rips out the jagged hunting knife from his hand.  
The sound written is  
SKLORK

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**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/27 "2000-11-09T15:35:38Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by Turpentine \*\*\*  
> > What about the BIG balls, though?  
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> I got big balls,  
> she’s got big balls…
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Uh, if it has big balls, it ain’t a “she”…

You should stop picking up dates at the Jerry Springer show…

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/28 "2000-11-09T16:42:33Z")

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rumblerumbleCRRRAAAACKKKKKKKK!

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-this-noise/40341/29 "2000-11-09T16:55:36Z")

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I really think you should have checked with a mod before you posted something so mundane and pointless, **Turp**.

::ducks and flees::

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