# If you could make a non-human noise, what would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990 "2007-01-29T18:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/1 "2007-01-29T18:50:54Z")
Me, I’d like to be able to roar like a lion. Growling would be good too. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/2 "2007-01-29T18:59:29Z")
Non-human? It’d be pretty cool to be able to make the sound of waves breaking on the beach. A good way to lull everyone around you to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/3 "2007-01-29T18:59:58Z")
I once heard a woman voice both parts of a cat and dog fight. It was incredibly realistic! Personaly, however, I’d like to be able to lean my head out the window of my vehicle and belt out a loud, penetrating, C sharp augmented train horn blast. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/4 "2007-01-29T19:01:51Z")
Either: - An 80s game show buzzer. Fighting ignorance would be so much more fun if I could say “:: bzzzzzzzt :: Wrong!” - A car horn, so slowpokes meandering two and three abreast right down the middle of the mall aisle would put a little spring in their step (and possibly a lump in their shorts) as I try to pass them. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/5 "2007-01-29T19:02:01Z")
No contest, the kukabura (sp?) call. Oh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/6 "2007-01-29T19:19:38Z")
I’d love to be able to purr. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/7 "2007-01-29T19:20:10Z")
For me it would be the sound a large piece of laminated cardboard makes when you shake it… you know, that “wobble-wobble” sound? That would be too cool! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/8 "2007-01-29T19:21:22Z")
The musical groan of the water buffalo would be quite useful in meetings. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/9 "2007-01-29T19:58:17Z")
Can I pick the repertoire of that guy from _Police Academy_? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/10 "2007-01-29T20:03:24Z")
[QUOTE=DaddyTimesTwo] No contest, the kukabura (sp?) call. Oh yeah. [/QUOTE] But if your were a Superb Lyrebird, you could make the call of a Kukabura, about twenty other bird species, a camera shutter, a camera motor drive, a car alarm, and a chainsaw (ne shitteth vous pas – it fooled me, and I live in chainsaw country). Props to Attenborough and his “Life of Birds”: [http://img.dailymail.co.uk/video/384Kbps.wmv](http://img.dailymail.co.uk/video/384Kbps.wmv) ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/11 "2007-01-29T20:26:03Z")
The Lyre Bird is awesome. Possibly the most versatile of birds that don’t talk. There’s a clearer video with the Attenborough video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuFyqzerHS8). ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/12 "2007-01-29T20:28:55Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I’d love to be able to purr. [/QUOTE] Me, too. Not sure I could master that ‘I am ruler of the world enjoying my domain’ look that goes along with it but I can try. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/13 "2007-01-29T21:11:17Z")
Okay, so I’m reading this collection of science fiction stories and there’s one written in the 1930’s called “A Martian Odyssey.” In it there is this Martian that’s kind of like an ostrich, with a rubbery beak that’s also a trunk… and it calls itself “Tweerl”–at least, that’s the only way the human can pronounce its name “without sputtering.” I think it’d be fabulous to be able to make the sound that represents the name of the ostrich Martian. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/14 "2007-01-29T21:28:05Z")
I read this thread title and immediately thought, “Klingon.” I guess that’s where I go when I think “non-human,” rather than the purring and the growling and the wobble-wubba described herein. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/15 "2007-01-29T21:30:59Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Can I pick the repertoire of that guy from _Police Academy_? [/QUOTE] [Michael Winslow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winslow) ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/16 "2007-01-29T21:33:42Z")
A loon or a howling wolf. I spend a lot of time in Northern Minnesota I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/17 "2007-01-29T21:38:00Z")
Ditto on purring. ---
**Author:** ![MovingTarget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@MovingTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovingTarget)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/18 "2007-01-29T21:42:29Z")
The sound of jeans tearing. Would be HELLA fun at parties and such. god I’m evil… ---
**Author:** ![the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_chicken_of_exeter)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/19 "2007-01-29T21:45:16Z")
The miaow (sp?) specific to demanding food. I would never have to cook again. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990/20 "2007-01-29T21:51:08Z")
I’d like to make that truck-backing-up beeep beeep sound. To wake up careless drivers that are cutting too close to me when I’m in a crosswalk. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-make-a-non-human-noise-what-would-it-be/389990.md?page=2)