The famous Roger Rabbit moment cued up:
Shave and a Haircut
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those who don't get it, it's a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island which features a parrot that repeats "Pieces of Eight" (also known as a bit).
If your bird repeats "Pieces of Seven" you should check its settings; it might have a parroty error.
slow clap
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole of the US would be hard since national level news and culture is what is getting exported, but local knowledge by state/region is a possible source. Like pronunciation of location names pronunciation (like pronunciation of Tilamuk Oregon, Miami Oklahoma, etc.), songs and chants for university sports teams, and jingles and phrases from local commercials. Rock Chalk...
The pronunciation of Chili, NY is an immediate way to ID anyone from the Rochester area.
Don’t forget Charlotte, NY (pronounced Shar-LOT).
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#124There's a common workflow I use at work that involves taking the default 10 times before inputting what I need to use. I do double shave and a haircut quickly instead of counting return presses.
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#125> The former prisoner of war and U.S. Navy seaman Doug Hegdahl reports fellow U.S. captives in the Vietnam War would authenticate a new prisoner's U.S. identity by using "Shave and a Haircut" as a shibboleth, tapping the first five notes against a cell wall and waiting for the appropriate response. With the mass export of western culture, I wonder if there are any songs, tunes, or patterns like this that would still…
Maybe some TV ad jingle. I bet you could do just the rhythm of "give me a BREAK, GIVE me a break, BREAK me off a piece of that" and get three even knocks back as a response.
Football cream?
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#126A made a little “secret knock” authentication demo. Shave and a haircut is obviously the secret knock used in the demo https://miniatureape.github.io/prohibition/ (Nb: I’m sure this doesn’t work great on some devices)
It just always says scram no matter what I do, I can record a single knock and it will still say "scram". Latest Safari on latest macOS.
I had an issue, but I figured it out. The rhythm is not the same as the one on the wikipedia page - which I was already familiar with. After looking at my recordings I realized I was playing it straight, but the default knock recording has a swing/triplet feel.
straight: DAA DA-DA DA DA, DA DA
swung: DAA DA D-DA DA, DA DA
I hope my highly rigorous notation is helpful here
edit - in hindsight this has nothing to do with your problem
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once interviewed a candidate for an engineering position in Seattle. It quickly turned out that he had fabricated his entire work history and education. My first clue was that he claimed two years of work experience at Costco HQ in Issaquah, Washington but he pronounced it as "Is-ACK" (the local pronounciation is "IS-uh-kwah"). No one who spent two years in Issaquah would ever pronounce it that way, regardless of t…
I'd say the Washington shibboleth should be "Puyallup"
Enumclaw/EnumClaw?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100401-00/?p=14...
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#128regarding “bits” as a monetary term: it took me a solid decade to get the joke in “Making Money” regarding why Reacher Gilt taught his parrot to say “12.5%”
I was thinking of a different Pratchett joke: in Making Money, Moist is told to use the barber's knock: "shave and a haircut, no legs!" I'm rereading the Moist series again, and it is so incredibly thick with humour and references. I mean, all of the books are, but that series really feels like him at the top of his game.
"the smoking GNU"
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#129Wow, so this is the where Nardwuar's "Doot doola doot do..." comes from! I always wondered how it was so ubiquitous that even people unfamiliar with his interviews knew how to respond. Very interesting.
For Nardwuar fans (and those who've never heard of him), this talk is amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26678512
He is 100/100 for initiative. Surprisingly relevant to HN'er folks like ourselves.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Louisiana has a long list of place names like this. New Orleans street names alone have standard pronunciations, many of which are not obvious especially if you've seen the name in other contexts. Then there are the city names like Plaquemines, Natchitoches, and even New Orleans itself (if you say "new or-LEENZ" like Chuck Berry you will be immediately flagged as an outsider). I reminded my wife of Natchitoches every…
I grew up in New Orleans and now live in Seattle, and all of my intuition for pronunciation is just totally broken. In many places, if you see a "weird" (as in non-English-seeming) place name, a reasonable pronunciation guess is to just assume it's from a Romance language and pronounce it vaguely Spanish/French-ish. This works because so many foreign names that are common in the US that aren't obviously Anglo/Germani…
> In many places, if you see a "weird" (as in non-English-seeming) place name, a reasonable pronunciation guess is to just assume it's from a Romance language
In New England at least you have three options: English, French (Canadian), or indigenous as mangled by a bunch of half-literate English or French speakers 200 years ago. As a result, it's never quite clear if you're dealing with vowels that went through the Great Vowel Shift that divides middle and modern English[0] or not.
[0] I am not a linguist, cunning or otherwise. This is an approximation.