# No More Foghorns?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 23, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499 "2008-07-23T16:40:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499/21 "2008-07-24T12:20:21Z")

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[QUOTE=slaphead]  
I love this board. I really do. What’s the career path to becoming A Foghorner?  
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A degree in Electrical Engineering, and the luck of becoming an engineering contractor to the US Coast Guard.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499/22 "2008-07-24T14:52:04Z")

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[QUOTE=WotNot]

I suppose there must have been some mist down at the mouth of the Tyne.  
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Not…fog?

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499/23 "2008-07-24T17:05:28Z")

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[QUOTE=MrDibble]  
Not…fog?  
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And if there was, what’s it to you?

It’s mine, I tell you – all mine! Bwaahaaahaha ha haaaa!

::ahem::

I’m sorry… I don’t quite know what came over me, there.

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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499/24 "2008-07-24T21:31:04Z")

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I think they go “doo-_daaaah!_ doo-_daaaah!_”

That’s a _joke_, son.

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499/25 "2008-07-25T02:26:12Z")

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[QUOTE=sqweels]  
I think they go “doo-_daaaah!_ doo-_daaaah!_”

That’s a _joke_, son.  
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But…but…but…what does a leghorn sound like?

Not to hijack the thread, but why DO foghorns make that BEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOHHHHH sound? That interval is a fifth, right? (I know that sounds like a set-up for a joke, but I’m serious! My ignorance must be fought!)

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**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-foghorns/457499/26 "2008-07-27T03:43:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Cheez\_Whia]  
These must have been the ones I heard last month while on vacation in San Francisco! Our motel was near the Presidio.  
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Yeah, the Golden Gate Bridge one is a notable diaphanous horn - two tones, very frequently.

I used to live within hearing range of the Pt. Bonita, Diablo Point, and Golden Gate Bridge foghorns. Summer nights with fog were terrible because all three just kept on blowing. ☹

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