About: Telephone Voice   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

This is quite a remarkable transformation considering the ‘gutter vocabulary’ the common yokel normally utilises. However when they realise it is just Auntie Beatrice they generally revert to type: Yokel: Oh heller Aun’ Bea. Yar it’s may. Haw wer’ yer eggs? This is evidence for the theory that the telephone voice phenomenon is not usually permanent, normally lasting for up to five minutes. At this point, the speaker gradually starts to grow weary of the charade, and the pretence begins to drop:

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Telephone Voice
rdfs:comment
  • This is quite a remarkable transformation considering the ‘gutter vocabulary’ the common yokel normally utilises. However when they realise it is just Auntie Beatrice they generally revert to type: Yokel: Oh heller Aun’ Bea. Yar it’s may. Haw wer’ yer eggs? This is evidence for the theory that the telephone voice phenomenon is not usually permanent, normally lasting for up to five minutes. At this point, the speaker gradually starts to grow weary of the charade, and the pretence begins to drop:
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:uncyclopedi...iPageUsesTemplate
filename
  • Phonevoice.ogg
Title
  • Helium Telephone Voice
Description
  • Listen to the helium telephone voice.
abstract
  • This is quite a remarkable transformation considering the ‘gutter vocabulary’ the common yokel normally utilises. However when they realise it is just Auntie Beatrice they generally revert to type: Yokel: Oh heller Aun’ Bea. Yar it’s may. Haw wer’ yer eggs? This is evidence for the theory that the telephone voice phenomenon is not usually permanent, normally lasting for up to five minutes. At this point, the speaker gradually starts to grow weary of the charade, and the pretence begins to drop: Aristocracy dude: Yes, frightfully good, what? Ordinary person: Yah, loverly jubbly. Erm, I mean, ‘quite’. Aristocracy dude: Sorry, what? Ordinary person: Oh crud, gotta go. Those with large amounts of stamina can go for up to an hour before ‘cracking’. You can converse with these individuals by calling a helpdesk for the BBC or BBC America and they are great fun. It is a great British pastime for when you are bored on a rainy evening to call them up and see how long you can keep them talking inanely about boring subjects. For God’s sake, though, make sure it’s a freephone number or else the joke will be on you when your phone bill comes.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software