Let’s say you can open your mouth and perfectly mimic, say, a foghorn. Or Homer Simpson. Or Edward R. Murrow. Or a roaring lion. What would you choose? Here’s my list:
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[li]Daleks. I would love to be able to talk like them. I’ve tried, of course, but it usually results in people grabbing their drinks and backing away from me.[/li][li]Morbo, of course. And the Hypno-Toad.[/li][li]A dolphin. But only if I could actually speak dolphin, underwater, and communicate with other dolphins. Then I could use my dolphin army to…nevermind, I’ve said too much.[/li][li]The movie trailer guy.[/li][/ul]
I have a friend who can perfectly imitate the sound of a baby wailing or laughing. She developed her skill as a teenager after noticing the funky sounds as she cleared her throat during a chest cold. I wish I had a recording, because it is dang eery. Its also fun for messing with people in restaurants or stores - intermittently fussy invisible baby! And the bubbly sound of a baby’s laughter is so infectious.
I have a fairly versatile voice already, but I would really love to sing songs meant for female singers — they just don’t sound right when I sing them myself, even if I can hit the notes.
No good reason for it, but I’d love to be able to make the sound of a centrifigal pump cavitating like crazy after it’s lost its minimum net positive suction head. It’s usually best described as the sound of the pump trying to gargle marbles, but for those who’ve never heard such a thing, it just doesn’t make sense, it seems.
I’m sick of people giving me odd looks when I use that comparison.
As has been noted by many a notable troubadour, I would sing like George Jones. I would also not have the alcohol related incidents and the divorces. Can you fix me now, or is this a project in the works?
My thinking as well, although I’d go with David Bowie.
There was a kid a year ahead of me in high school who could an absolutely perfect imitation of the fire alarm. He emptied out more than one classroom and got at least one almost to the front door before the teacher realized it wasn’t a real alarm.
