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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I have a little sound file I want to loop - it's an alarm sound, the TMP Intruder Alert one. Kinda topical since a big black guy walked into our offices yesterday, picked up my boss' laptop, and walked out! How would I go about editing a sound file like that?

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

It might help if you actually had someone to stop the people who walk in out of the blue and walk out again with computers. They're called "security."

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Cant... help... myself...

Not everyone can afford to hire security staff.
Just keep a shotgun behind the counter.
Ot better yet, make a wav. file of the sound of a pump-action shotgun being pumped.

"I'ma take this computer."
*reaches under counter, presses mouse button* *Ka-CHAK!*
"No, you aren't."
"Um, okay."

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[This message has been edited by First of Two (edited March 22, 2001).]

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Well, loads of constructive advice then. We don't know how he got in, but suspect it was while the guard (who's a Turkish idiot) was away - he leaves the door locked, but there are loads of people who know the codes and would let someone in if they looked like they knew where they were going.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Then how do you know who took it?

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

He was seen on our floor - but before anyone could think to do any more than to challenge him - and he was big and scary-looking, and they were all female - he was gone.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

What's the difference between a Turkish Idiot and your average, run-of-the-mill Idiot?

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Language mostly. The Turks tend to shoot first and forget the questions.

I used to work in a department store, where a guy walked in, grabed a display VCR, and ran to the door. I saw him as he was running, yelled to the manager, and we chased him to the car waiting in the parking lot. He jumped in and they took off, as we got the licence number. The cops checked it out, but we didn't get the VCR back. They weren't worth that much even then 15 years ago, but it still pissed me off.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Hang on a sec, I thought Vogon Poet and First of Two were the same person, what's the story?

When you say you want to loop the file, do you mean that you have the file and you just want to loop it (sorry if this insults your intelligence), or do you want to get the file in the first place? Maybe you could record it off the telly or something and subtract off the noise using AcidWav or Gold Wave (shareware available at www.goldwave.com)

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Multiple personality disorder.

Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Ya must have gotten it mixed up when Vogon was formerly known as "The First One". He said that since there's already a "first", better get a new/better/flashier/catchier name.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I was the first First. Probably. No-one's quite sure. Regardless, I'm the Quantum First and Robert's the Binary First.

As for our security guard, he's an idiot, and he's also very Turkish. Eats unspeakable-smelling food behind the desk. I'm sick of having to hold my breath while I run between lift and front door.

And - who was it who actually asked a question relating to the topic? - I have the file, but it's only 3 seconds long. I wanna loop it.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, now that we know the difference between a Turkish idiot and a regular idiot... What's the difference between a big black thief, and a regular big thief?

Anyway, just use the Windoze Sound Recorder. In the Edit menu, use "Insert File" a few times, and keep inserting that same file, as many times as you want it to loop.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Are you implying something?

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Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

Perhaps he is, I might have detected a hint of racism in the preceeding posts.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

O-Kay. . . Yup. I'm a racist. I hate those nigger scum. When I heard that one of them thar blackies was a-lollygaggin' round mah way, helpin' themselves to our laptops, and our women no doubt, well, slap mah thigh, ah wanted to get me a posse o' good ole boys and head on down to the ghetto see if we couldn't have ourselves a necktie party!

Wah, I do declare! One of the people I work with saw the dark-skinned miscreant, spoke to him in fact, and knew that dumb sumbitch was up to no good. She's been in fear of her womanhood ever since. Weren't able to identify the coon, they all look the same don't they?

Or not. In fact, she was really scared to see this guy hanging around outside her office. She had nightmares, and I had to walk her to the Tube station the other day. She's one of my best friends in the world. She's also black.

So don't any of you EVER, EVER, EVER accuse me of racism again, you hear? Jesus Christ, I'm so pissed off I could. . .

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

...listen to Hank Williams?

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

No need to be pissed off to do that.

Oh right, I'm suppose to be maintaining some sort of stability, aren't I?

Infinity: I count Mr. Poet as a personal friend of mine, and I can say with some reliability that the only people he hates with irrational passion are thosed damned Kushites. (That=joke referencing Biblical archeology.)

Mr. Poet and all others: Let us remember that we have cultivated a very special corner of cyberspace here, one in which jokes that would never fly elsewhere are free to take wing. It should not surprise us when those who are new here, with experience elsewhere that differs from our own, percieve things in ways we had not intended. Let us guide Mr. Infinity and all those like him into a new age of off-color humor and Zero Wing references.

With all that understood, I declare no harm, no foul. Agreed?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I am actually pretty proud of, and happy to be part of, the ethics and moral at this board.
Except for in the flameboard, where people can have so different opinions in difficult topics, most people here seem to agree on the fundamental values of life. Like that sunscreen song!

Sol: Your reputation is solid. (As is also...ahem)

And you give my witty remark too much credit, sometimes a ceegar is just a ceegar.
(Um, Hank Williams, "I'm So Lonesome I could Cry", yaddah-yaddah-yaddah)

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

"...jokes that would never fly elsewhere are free to take wing."

Zero Wing?

I'm sorry, that was bad. I blame the fact that I didn't make my time.

What's the difference between a big black guy and a regular black guy?

Sizist! No wonder you love Simon!

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

*falsetto* WAWAWA-WAWAWA-WAAAAAH!!!
*bass* DUM-DI-DUM-DI-DUMDUMDI!!

I'm sorry, "The Saint"-theme kind of got away from me. Won't happen again. Promise, I do.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I wasn't doing any accusing. I actually caught the "black" and "Turkish" parts as soon as I read the first post. I wasn't going to comment, except that the "Turkish" reference was mentioned.

Though, honestly, it would be interesting to see if you would have said that either of those people was white, if they had been. :-)

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Yes, it would have been interesting. And you know why? Because Lee's white.

When you look at other people, you tend to notice things that are

1/ different from the norm
2/ different from yourself

If a white person is describing someone he knows to another white friend, and this person is black, he'd say "he's black". If he was white, he wouldn't say "he's white", because it's taken as read. Taking the (not unreasonable assumption) that the majority of people on this board are white males, over 5 foot 7, with brown hair, then describing someone who is black as black is quite fair. As is desribing someone as ginger, tall, or fat.

Come on, when someone new posts, most of you will automatically (whether subconscious or not) think that they are male. Does that make you sexist? No, it just means that you've noticed that there are more men than women on the internet.

I doubt that black people would describe their black friends as black to each other, but they would probably describe their white friends as white.

Being pro-equality doesn't mean pretending that physical differences do not exist. It means that they don't matter.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

That's what I'm saying. It doesn't matter. If I were telling the story, I wouldn't even have thought to mention it...

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

But that's what I'm saying. You'd have mentioned if he was big. You'd have mentioned if he was ginger. But you wouldn't have mentioned if he was black?

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Current thread 'Ginger' count: 2

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I have friends who are mulatto or spanish, but I wouldn't think to refer to them differently. They are "friend".

So where draw the line? Comparing colour tones? Curtain samples? Accents? Forget it.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I dunno. I describe one of my friends as a "dirty Welsh bastard", and I get called a "stupid Southern twat" in return.

Besides, "Big black bloke" rolls really well of the tongue.

I = Master Of The Illiteration!

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

My friend - the one who is black - wasn't herself able to give a much better description of him than "big black bloke." Apart from he was wearing a red top. Should I have mentioned that? Because I'm probably more biased against red-top wearers, red not being my colour and all.

Though, come to think of it, my girlfriend was wearing a red top the other night. But not for very long. }B)

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Hey, Lee, why don't you just make a video for us so we can all revel in how much you've been getting laid, huh?

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Actually. . . 8)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

O shut up, Mollari.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Oh, I'm sorry, am I boring you? I'm HAPPY. I've met someone who has become very important to me in quite a short space of time. Now, maybe it would be more of interest if I held forth at length about her medical problems - and she DOES have them? And then after that I'll go and drive my car at a reckless speed, and then complain bitterly - and endlessly - when I crash. Would everyone prefer that? 8)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Mollari said "achoolee" before blowing up the island. Small joke, power down your weapons, sarge.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Joy! Hates it, we do!

*recoils from happiness*

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

*looks down, realises he's wearing a red top*

I knew that our relationship was doomed. *sniff*

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Well, if you take it off quickly enough. . . }B)

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

(Yes, despite the fact that it is now several days later, I am again wearing a red top.)

*takes it off. Someone behind him screams*

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

And I must rethink the lighting in my boudoir, she was wearing a pink top. 8)

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