# Why Do Vampires Say "Bleh?"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vampires-say-bleh/201695>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 15, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vampires-say-bleh/201695 "2003-09-15T07:37:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vampires-say-bleh/201695/41 "2023-10-31T22:17:28Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> To practice the languorous: use the word “antipasto”, saying it slowly, sounding all sinister, and with the Romanian accent and lisping the “s”. "ahnti-pahhth-toe

I know this is a zombie thread but since @Chefguy is still around… Isn’t “antipasto” Boris Karloff, not Bela Lugosi? I remember watching “Match Game” when I was a kid and one of the running gags was saying “Antipasto” in a Boris Karloff kind of voice.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vampires-say-bleh/201695/42 "2023-11-01T00:29:12Z")

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Yeah, probably. But I was so much younger then; I’m older than that now.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vampires-say-bleh/201695/43 "2023-11-01T00:35:36Z")

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“Ah, I was so much older then,  
I’m younger than that now…”

_Bob Dylan_

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vampires-say-bleh/201695/44 "2023-11-01T00:47:41Z")

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[Checks through the back pages of @Beckdawrek 's life …]

Yep. Story checks out.

😉

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