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# A Swany whistle?
www.whistleworld.co.uk/acatalog/Orchestral_Whistles.html

I was quite surprised to find there is a 'Whistle World'
(, 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?
(, 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.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:01, archived)
# Did they bleep out the whistle when it finally went to air?
:D
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:03, archived)
# that would make me happy beyond belief.
Apparently the line was changed to "flippin' hell".
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:05, archived)
# If anyone needs looking after, it's the bloke who wrote the scripts for the Clangers.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:06, archived)
# ^this
however, Soup Dragon is easily the best combination of words ever.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:08, archived)
# i would say
squeeeoooop was a fair approximation of a swany whistle
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 15:59, archived)
# Not bad
given the challenges of the current state of internet phonetics...
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 16:00, archived)