# Things that give you goose bumps

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 1, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-give-you-goose-bumps/447553 "2008-05-01T02:28:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bravo\_Romeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bravo\_Romeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bravo_Romeo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-give-you-goose-bumps/447553/1 "2008-05-01T02:28:29Z")

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For me:

- The classic fingernails on a chalkboard
- Cotton balls (the noise and feeling they generate when you rub them between your finger tips)
- Untreated pine (with a fine, chalky sawdust on top)
- Warm, freshly photocopied paper (especially if my hands are dry)

Some things don’t affect me though, even fi they do affect others, like metal scraping on metal or ice scraping on ice.

How about you?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-give-you-goose-bumps/447553/2 "2008-05-01T03:28:14Z")

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Beethoven’s Ninth, the part where the choir kicks in.

Every.  
Single.  
Time.

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-give-you-goose-bumps/447553/3 "2008-05-01T03:55:53Z")

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A good rendition of the Star Spangled Banner (e.g., Whitney Houston, Buckingham Palace Guard after 9/11)

Some of my favorite 80s music

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-give-you-goose-bumps/447553/4 "2008-05-01T05:49:04Z")

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In a bad way:  
Dust between my toes.  
Similarly, running my hands through flour.

In a good way:  
Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles

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**Author:** ![Bravo\_Romeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bravo\_Romeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bravo_Romeo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-give-you-goose-bumps/447553/5 "2008-05-01T08:27:05Z")

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Hmm I didn’t think about the good kinds of goosebumps…

Missy Higgins’ song _Nightminds_

It happened watching Kid Nation once.