Aaaawwww isn't she... what the fuck...?
Prompted by BobFossil’s earlier entry (can I say that?), I’m reminded of when I was in London with the ex a few years ago. We’d gone into some posh department store that wasn’t owned by a deluded Egyptian greengrocer, and were in the lift travelling from the 6th floor food hall, to the ground floor exit. At the fourth floor, the lift stopped, and in came a young mother and her toddler, who was seated in a pushchair (or stroller, if you prefer).

The tot was a girlish mass of blonde curls, all sweetness and light, and beaming in that way that only very young children can. Me and the ex looked at each other, with a ‘isn’t she quite sweet’ look, and looked again at the little girl in the pushchair…

…Who fixed us both with a hard stare and addressed us with a throaty “Ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”.

“Erm, yes”, the girl’s mother exclaimed matter-of-factly, “She growls. She does that sometimes”.

At that point the lift doors opened, mother and child exited, and me and the ex’s collective knees buckled under us as we almost-but-not-quite pissed ourselves laughing.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 18 Apr 2008, 13:27, 7 replies)

Ah.
I used to growl as well. Still do sometimes. And I can purr (a rather useful skill which I've developed through having to do "uvular trills" when playing baroque flute).
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 13:47, closed)

BobFossil
Is that a relation of the pink oboe?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 18 Apr 2008, 14:30, closed)

^
No. It's the flute, but...baroque. You know, less mechanically developed than the modern Boehm-mechanism flutes that are seen today.

So we can play baroque music on the instruments they were actually written for, as opposed to adapting this music for modern instruments, so it therefore sounds inauthentic.

But I am rather a fan of tonguing the flesh-flute as well, as it happens!
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 14:36, closed)

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My youngest growls, very effectively too. I keep waiting for her head to spin round and do a green projectile vomit.
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 16:07, closed)

@bob
I misread uvular. Can anyone guess what I thought you wrote? It would have been an even more impressive skill.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 16:49, closed)

^ al - top marks Sir!
Heh heh heh!

*squeals with mirth*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 19:19, closed)

^^^
I think deep down somehow I just knew it would be you that got there first Tourettes, I can't think why!
(Bazongaloid, Sat 19 Apr 2008, 18:18, closed)