# What seperates punk from other rock?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 22, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seperates-punk-from-other-rock/163266 "2003-03-22T02:12:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seperates-punk-from-other-rock/163266/41 "2003-03-27T23:28:46Z")

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:smack:

It was called “gobbing,” actually. The idea on the musician’s part was to avoid, ahem, accidentally gobbling the results while singing with mouth wide open…

Sorry for that extremely disgusting image.

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