Wait, so you do or do not whistle Dragnet? What’s a white grapist? Uuruasdfhgh.
I think I know the tune the OP means. The rhythm is as the OP gave, and the notes are C A G F F (descending from the first note). My vague memory brings up a cartoon character running over a bridge that collapses under him or runs off a cliff. He stays in the air until he realizes what’s happened, whereupon the animator redraws him as a jackass and the music plays. Then the character regains his original appearance and falls. But it was some character earlier and other than Wile E. Coyote.
But I have no idea where it originated.
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…Nuclear war breaks out, and all life on Earth is destroyed.
So what do you do?
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I do nothing. I’ve been vaporized. (You wrote ALL life on Earth is destroyed, so I am too.)
I know this is gonna seem ridiculous, but this is very close to it:
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Wait, so you do or do not whistle Dragnet? What’s a white grapist? Uuruasdfhgh.
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Not! Not! A thousand times not!
The Grapist was an annoying member from a few years back, who would go into random threads and post You have been graped by the grapist! Did I mention annoying? Because if I haven’t, I would like to say that he was annoying.
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Why is the dog in the supermarket?
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I presume to buy dog food. They have to eat, you know!
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I’m glad I made my background grey. 
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I remember The Grapist, but I didn’t catch your little trick there.
Duped again!
Was it that animated typewriter guy on Sesame Street?
Okay, I definitely know what you mean, but not what song it is.
They do use it a lot in the Simpsons. Whenever someone does something wrong, and they walk off, pretending to be all innocent. I’m trying to see if I can pull up a youtube Simpsons scene with someone whistling, but I can’t even think of any right now. Do you remember any specific scenes where someone did that?
I see lots of references to it on Google as “innocent whistle”. But no mention of who wrote it.
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Was it that animated typewriter guy on Sesame Street?
Noo ne noo ne noo ne noo ne noo …?
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Yeah, that’s the same tune I think.
I didn’t know that “14 k of g in an f p d” had a song…
The midi on this page is almost but not quite it, I think.
‘Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet’
I know this isn’t it, but it’s all I can think of at the moment.
I would say the “innocent whistle” is not an exact melody, but simply a descending motif.
I will hazard a WAG and say that it’s one of those cross-cultural things that a lot of people do and recognize, kind of like the “nyah nyah” song, which has a nearly identical melody the world over, even in cultures that were using it before contact with other cultures who use it.
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I see lots of references to it on Google as “innocent whistle”. But no mention of who wrote it.
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I’m not sure anyone wrote it in the traditional sense of sitting down at a piano with manuscript paper. I’m betting that either a) It was first done that way in a movie or something, then just caught on, or b) it’s written into our DNA. I’m betting it’s b, because it does seem to be universal.
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Was it that animated typewriter guy on Sesame Street?
Noo ne noo ne noo ne noo ne noo …?
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I love that the last commment on the Sesame Street ( :eek: ) video was “hot adults on webcam in your AREA! CAMAZONCAMS dot COM”