# Your favorite sound effects as a kid! (Update) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235 "2011-04-21T14:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/1 "2011-04-21T14:58:10Z")
From a year ago in Cafe Society [this OP](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12362485&postcount=1) from [Your favorite sound effects as a kid!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560333) said: > [@enomaj](#): > > **Your favorite sound effects as a kid!** > > * * * > > I remember regularly imitating these sound effects: > > - peerown(say it real fast) - the sound of a bullet ricochet/other fast things > > — Usage - “The pit bull down the street got loose and I was like peerown.” > > - buuuud-unh - revving/changing gears on a motorcycle > > — all of the Six Million Dollar Man sound effects > > - do do do… - the eye > - buh nuh nuh … - jumping > - erh erh erh… - strength > > What about you? (approximate spellings if possible) ==================== So, as of today, let’s see how much difference a year has made… \< Post either here or to the zombie itself. Whatever the current rules are with zombies. \> ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/2 "2011-04-21T16:09:46Z")
I’ll take in this to mean the sound effects I used to go around the house making myself: 1. The Emergency Broadcast System Alert tone (the old one that was just one long tone) 2. The 6 Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman “doing something superhuman” sound effect 3. Waving a wiffle bat around to make lightsaber-like sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/3 "2011-04-21T16:12:26Z")
fart ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/4 "2011-04-21T16:16:52Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > fart Which one?! I prefer the cupped hand in the armpit. I love it when girls do that one. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/5 "2011-04-21T16:40:08Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Which one?! I prefer the cupped hand in the armpit. I love it when girls do that one. both palms pressed up against your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/6 "2011-04-21T17:59:45Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > fart Wet or dry? . ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/7 "2011-04-21T18:07:02Z")
Blowing on the crook of my elbow was my way. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/8 "2011-04-22T05:39:47Z")
I did this ALL the time as a kid, and I still make sound effects every day, like an italian using hand gestures ('course, my blood runs thick with Sicilian blood). All kinds of ballistic noised from bombs dropping, explosions, and pistol or rifle and machine gun fire (which I love to add subtlety to by adding a bit of echo). Ricochet: “Peee-neeeaarrrrrrr!” Lasers: “Sstt’tsssoooooof!” Farts of all flavors, of course. The doppler effect of cars or jets… “nnnnneeeeeaarrrRRRRR-OOOOooooooooommmm” Little modulated, electronic bleeps, clicks and ringing tones I do with my tongue and some falsetto vocalizations. The oscillating wooshinging sound of a spinning weapon, like boomerang, or throwing star, or whatever. And this harmonic thing I do, that seems to trip people out where I do a deep, monotone vocalization in the back of my throat, then create a buzzing sound with my lips at the same time. Sounds very synthetic. I also get some complements on my “new born baby crying”, especially in the work place. Having fathered 2 kids, I became quite familiar with that particular sound. Makes new mothers perk up… so fun! ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/9 "2011-04-22T05:57:03Z")
The power jacks on the Mach 5 “yonk, yonk, yonk, yonk…” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/10 "2011-04-22T07:22:15Z")
Anything by Don Martin: > **[Don Martin Sound Effects](http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2007/12/don-martin-sound-effects.html)** > > Darren Garnick, of the Nashua Telegraph, writes about the life of "MAD's Maddest Cartoonist" Don Martin. He talks about the new big 2 volume... ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/11 "2011-04-22T12:25:23Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > Anything by Don Martin: > [Mike Lynch Cartoons: Don Martin Sound Effects](http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2007/12/don-martin-sound-effects.html) Very hard to top! Great link. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/12 "2011-04-22T12:37:17Z")
The sound of horse hooves galloping from _The Holy Grail_. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/13 "2011-04-22T12:43:37Z")
The [Martian Heat Ray and Green Disintegration Bolts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVUwG0qC9c) from the 1950’s War of the Worlds. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/14 "2011-04-22T13:05:43Z")
I remember seeing a Star Wars documentary that the blaster sound effects were made by banging an open end wrench against the guy wire of a telephone line. My dad soon wondered where all his wrenches were, and what is that noise? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/15 "2011-04-22T13:28:08Z")
Favorite sound made by something else: The Current Affairs sound. Favorite sound made by me: either making “woosh” sounds for my hands and feet like old kung fu movies or humming and whistling at the same time to make a weird laser sound. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/16 "2011-04-22T13:40:51Z")
All types of animal noises, especially dogs and horses. I spent half of my childhood pretending to be a dog or horse. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/17 "2011-04-22T16:44:16Z")
Star Wars has so many signature sounds, when I hear them to this day, I’m a kid again. I also LOVE the sound of the Delorean in Back to the Future. I’ve always loved the sound of the eagle’s “screeeee!”, and the cougar’s roar “Krrrrooooooooowwww!” Both sounds I find almost impossible to imitate (yet I still try). Crickets are hard too, but I have a friend who’s mastered it, it’s uncanny (and I’m jealous). ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/18 "2011-04-22T16:51:32Z")
Another sound effect I loved as a kid is the “boing” sound effect from a lot of cartoons (think of a spring unloading). Which of course I now associate with “popping a boner”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/19 "2011-04-22T17:59:08Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I’ve always loved the sound of the eagle’s “screeeee!”, and the cougar’s roar “Krrrrooooooooowwww!” > > Both sounds I find almost impossible to imitate (yet I still try). The audio on [Maria Bamford Performing the Pterodactyl Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlILYDLA7bM) is poor, and there are better versions in some of her longer clips, but I couldn’t help thinking of it and the commercial for some beverage where the guys sport big tattoos of eagles and this gal with a face like the Wicked Witch of the West cuts loose with an eagle screech that breaks windows. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/20 "2011-04-22T18:11:57Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > … but I couldn’t help thinking of it and the commercial for some beverage where the guys sport big tattoos of eagles and this gal with a face like the Wicked Witch of the West cuts loose with an eagle screech that breaks windows. This is it: [Like an Eagle: the Taste of Diet Mountain DEW Commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8zmzp2rKo) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235.md?page=2)