Record the sound remotely.
Play it back.
Hear the sound.

That's THE SOUND THAT IT MADE. That sound.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:18, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

IT MADE A SOUND.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:19, Reply)

TREES FALLING DOWN MAKE SOUNDS.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:19, Reply)

but how can you define a "sound" if nobody is there to take account of it?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:20, Reply)

Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.
Due to recording technology you can hear this sound whilst not being present.

I did it this morning. I listened to Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar and on my life he was not on the bus playing it. Incroyable.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:24, Reply)

hmmmm
so if the ghost of jimi hendrix plays his guitar and noone is there to hear it, do the translucent pale white strings make a sound?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:27, Reply)

So now Herman's fucking Hermits are on this bus too?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:28, Reply)

where was it going?
something good?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:37, Reply)

The original of that song is great.
It's The Cookies who did another great tune 'Don't say nothig bad about my baby'.

You have not been charged for this call.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:40, Reply)

Also, the original version of the Beatles song Chains.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:43, Reply)

An electronic ear is still an ear.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:19, Reply)

and someone had to be there to put the recorder in place

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:19, Reply)

Correct.
And that person then went away, and was therefore NOT THERE TO HEAR IT.

There's no fucking argument here. None at all, stop winding me up.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:22, Reply)

if you were on the witness stand
i would ask you, what is your evidence for asserting that it made a sound? how could you PROVE it?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:24, Reply)

Oh right you are, let's have a live CCTV linkup and watch it happen from ten miles away as well then.
When coupled with the sound recording, you'd be paying my costs before you could say Jack Robinson
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:25, Reply)

you can't do that
a live CCTV link-up is to have the effect of HAVING SOMEONE THERE.

prosecution wins
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:26, Reply)

'to have the effect of'
Not actually being there.

I saw 9/11 on the TV - by your reckoning I was there, yeah?

TAKE HER DOWN
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:30, Reply)

it's a question of construction
i would argue (successfully) that there is an implied term that "hearing" it means by any means necessary, not just physical proximity to said decayed tree
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:38, Reply)

But that's the fucking point.
You ARE hearing it, but you AREN'T present.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:41, Reply)

It is about questioning existence, rather than questioning if falling trees actually make sounds.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:27, Reply)

I know this but it's a badly-phrased question.
That is what irritates me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:32, Reply)

I blame dumbing down at the BBC.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:35, Reply)

I blame asylum seekers.
You know who has the right ideas about those cunts - that Nigel Tufnel.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:36, Reply)

Nigel Lythgoe is your man

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:37, Reply)

I tell you what, that Nigel Kennedy chap is asking the questions other politicians shy away from.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:40, Reply)

I like how that Nigel Slater is tackling the issue of unlimited migration head on.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:42, Reply)

Another similar one is the old Buddhist 'sound of one hand clapping' phrase.
That's all very mystical - except that, you pricks, I can clap with one hand and have therefore heard the sound of one hand clapping, I did it just now, so fuck off you baldy queers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:36, Reply)

It really makes you think

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:36, Reply)

It sure does. It makes me think 'you fucking baldy queers'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:37, Reply)

"no one there to hear it,"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:20, Reply)

Shut up.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:21, Reply)