The next time I went to the movies and a sexy scene came on the screen, I listened for boings.
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When you press the circle on the cap, the lid boings open, thanks to a spring at the back, which is kind of fun.
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But for all its comedy boings and obvious set-ups, The Simple Life will always be a surprisingly solid foundation class in Work Ethic 101.
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Elsewhere their fragments remain fragments, with no loss of humor: "I Need Help Immediately" is a disjointed compilation of studio comedy sound effects, pasting together snippets of canned applause, slapstick boings, junk saxophone, snare drums, flute, and triangle clicks.
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The closest thing there is to an answer in the video is when that one dude holding a pair of dumbbells in the weight room kind of sidesteps into the middle of the room while holding them at his sides as the deer boings around the space.
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"How Long," with lyrics about attachment, materialism and resentment — "My life's a joke, your life's a gas" — starts out with just Koenig's voice over a bass line and eases into fingersnapping pop-soul, but goes on to toy with bursts of guitar feedback, a distant piano, drums that switch between playing and programming, a pizzicato string arrangement and the comic, metallic boings of a flexatone.
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In the third episode "Love Song of Kseniya," Boing Boings Xeni Jardin reads her own email spam. In the fourth episode "The Proposition," Erik Sheppard of Voice Talent Productions contributes a voice.
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Most boings have been recorded in the tropical and warm temperate North Pacific during the winter and spring, but some have also been detected in the northeastern Chukchi Sea in the summer and fall.
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Boings have been divided into two types: the central boing and the eastern boing. The former has only been recorded west of 135°W, while the latter has only been recorded east of 138°W. They differ in pulse repetition rate and total duration. There may also be a "western boing" off Japan.
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In the western and central North Pacific, they range from Hawaii, the Mariana Islands,Norris, T., Martin, S., Thomas, L., Yack, T., Oswald, J. N., Nosal, E. M., and Janik, V. (2012). "Acoustic ecology and behavior of minke whales in the Hawaiian and Marianas Islands: localization, abundance estimation, and characterization of minke whale 'boings'".
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" Motherboards Emanuel Maiberg remarked while it is a "small and funny browser game," it is "not as fun to play as the original Super Mario Bros." Gamnesias Gabriel McBride found the game as "possible interpretation" to Luigi's actions and thoughts in official games and thus "manages to be pretty amusing in the process." Boing Boings David Pescovitz reviewed the game "excellent." GamesRadars Sam Prell, despite the concept, implored "It's funny though, I promise.
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Their source remained a mystery for decades. By the early 1980s they were thought to come from whales, but it wasn't known what species. In the early 2000s, it was suggested these sounds might originate from minke whales, based on their similarities to vocalizations produced by Southern Hemisphere forms. Finally, during a 2002 HICEAS (Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey) survey, the R/V David Starr Jordan, using a towed hydrophone array, detected boings off the northwestern Hawaiian Islands on 7 November 2002 and discovered they came from a minke whale, which they photographed and biopsied.
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In the North Pacific, what were called "boings" was first described in the mid-1960s from submarine recordings made off San Diego, California, and Kaneohe, Hawaii, in the 1950s. They consist of a brief pulse – called a precursor – with a duration of 0.28 seconds (range: 0.15 to 1.6 seconds) followed by a frequency and amplitude modulated long call – called the AM component – of 2.2 seconds duration (range: 1.4 to 4.2 seconds). Both had peak frequencies of 1.4 kHz with harmonics of up to 9 kHz. These strange calls were recorded from October to May – peaking in March – and had a source level of about 150 decibels with reference to one micropascal metre.
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