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# You have one of those silly whistles with the slider in the bottom that makes the funny pitch shifting noise!
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(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 15:54, archived)
# A Swany whistle?
www.whistleworld.co.uk/acatalog/Orchestral_Whistles.html

I was quite surprised to find there is a 'Whistle World'
(I helped save b3ta! Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 15:55, archived)
# That's the chap!
...and now I know how the clangers speak!!

and surely you know by now that there is a 'world' for everything?
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 15:58, archived)
# my mum is a nurse
and she once looked after the chap who wrote the scripts for the Clangers. In one of the episodes a character bangs his head and was scripted to say "bloody hell", even though they had the whistle for a voice this line still got censored by the BBC.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:01, archived)
# Did they bleep out the whistle when it finally went to air?
:D
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:03, archived)
# that would make me happy beyond belief.
Apparently the line was changed to "flippin' hell".
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:05, archived)
# If anyone needs looking after, it's the bloke who wrote the scripts for the Clangers.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:06, archived)
# ^this
however, Soup Dragon is easily the best combination of words ever.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:08, archived)
# i would say
squeeeoooop was a fair approximation of a swany whistle
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 15:59, archived)
# Not bad
given the challenges of the current state of internet phonetics...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:00, archived)
# I wish.
/deprived
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 15:59, archived)
# I have a swannee whistle
AND a kazoo!
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:05, archived)