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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.
[QUOTE=WotNot]
I suppose there must have been some mist down at the mouth of the Tyne.
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Not…fog?
[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.
I think they go “doo-daaaah! doo-daaaah!”
That’s a joke, son.
[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!)
[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. 