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Will Barry White Songs Help Sharks Get Down?
iforgotmyfirstlogon writes "From ABC News: Ten resolutely celibate sharks at the National Sea Life Center are getting a blast of Barry White in hopes they'll get in the mood for love." Nothing like a little music to get you in the mood..." CD: Valentines Day should be called Barry White day.
He attracted snakes on the Simpsons, didn't he?
Kilroy was here!
I wonder if the researchers got the idea from watching South Park.
Sounds fishy to me.
I don't think I believe this.
*groan* *retch*
Thank you, I'll be here til friday, enjoy the steak...
This reminds me of whacking day
More like sharks will by swimming into walls blindly as they use their tympanic drums to navigate in addition to hearing.
*ooh baby*... bonk
Dude, Barry White could get the Elephant Man laid.
or maybe they'll just get in the mood to eat anyone bothering to swim out into the ocean..
"OOOOOOOO...your making me hungry.."
"Arby's..sastify your grown up tastes.."
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It has to be slow if they allow someones proposal on it as well !
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Barry White's voice is so deep that the resonance must serve as a no-touch vibrator for women.
"Scientists" playing Seals Fly Like An Eagle to abandoned babybirds hoping to get them to fly?
Maybe if the female ones feed the males some hardees's food too (which Barry white has done comercials for) they'll be more in the mood?
taco: i think amazon carries barry white cds. hint hint.
go get it
Today must be a REAL SLOW news day if this makes the front page!
Well, that's because CmdrTaco is too busy with Kath^H^H^H^H other things right now.
:) Congrats to the happy couple!
Don't knock Barry, his music works better than cheap liquor.
Hey, it works on whales ... I hear it helped Bill get Monica ...
-jbn
Has anyone considered that these sharks are gay?
sharks have 2 penises
barry's songs apply to 1 penis... could be some problems....
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Didn't the US Navy just admit to killing some whales with ultra low frequency sonar?
Who wouldn't be absolutely thrilled to know their music doesn't just help humans fall in love? It sure makes me want to chase women around rooms biting at their backs and lower regions.
How about giving those sharks a little PRIVACY!
Shark #1: Darling, allow me to gentle stroke your pectoral fin.. let me gently nibble your..
Researcher: HEY! He's getting close, turn on the video camera! Play the Barry White! Turn on the spotlight!
Shark #2: Uhm, not interested.
Shark #1: Damn you humans and your infernal lights and music! A pox on your families! May wasps eat at your eyes!
are you sure? I thought maybe it was spelled penii or penae. Certainly sounds better... :)
LOTR: Elijah Wood is a munchkin asshat. Yes, asshat. LOL.
"...can't get enough of your love, babe..."
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It's got to be penii -- -ae is a feminine suffix.
Valintines day should be SAD
:)
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thanks :) :)
I'm a little rusty with latin (OK, so I dont know any latin
LOTR: Elijah Wood is a munchkin asshat. Yes, asshat. LOL.
The NPR interview with one of the people there (perhaps the curator?) mentioned that the music the carp were listening to was generally classical. Now, despite the effect Barry White might have on humans (and Ally McBeal characters), I wouldn't be surprised if it lacks many of the qualities that made the classical interesting work with the carp. I'm no big fan of classical, but I do buy into the idea that it has a sense of complexity that modern music doesn't have. Most classical generally has less sharp percussion than Barry White's backing band, and probably a less jarring flow. They've said so far that the males seemed more excited, but maybe they're just getting agitated.
Anyway, it sound like pretty dubious science. Cute story for the day however.
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This can be used to reverse the recent trend in shark attacks. Build bathing suits with small speakers specially built for underwater use. Any nearby sharks will suddenly become preoccupied with 'other things'...
Well taken from the report on sharks at seaworld here, I dont think it will work very well.
Since sharks seem to be attracted to sounds from 20hz to 100hz as reported here(humans hear~20hz-20,000hz), because it associates it with prey or a fish in distress. What they do "hear" of Barry would probably only make them want to gobble him up. Sharks can also hear sounds in that ragne from up to 2km away, reported here. Hope they turn ole Barry down baby.
So it seems to me that they will achieve bunch of pissed off hungry sharks.
thirsty*i^2
"Ya I finished that last week, it just doesn't work"
Michael!!! Did you hear your father, out of the water NOW!!!!
You know what?
There is already a "White Day" and White Day is related to Valentine's Day.
Does this constitue fair use or is the RIAA going to sue them?
It was deep enough to attract snakes on the simpsons...
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I thought Barry White was the Walrus of love, not the Shark of Love??? strange!
It's penises. Deprecated plural, penes.
(jfb)
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was last night. I was lining up a nice dinner and a chick flick with an old friend a week ago. It didn't trigger at the time that Thursday was VD. So, of course the night was free for both of us.
:)
Although the night didn't end with sex, I realised half-way through dinner that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get into trouble, be insensitive, embarrassing, or thoughtless. There were going to be no tantrums, expectations, or politics. We laughed at our dirty laundry instead of using it to hurt each other.
What more could you want from the night? (You are not allowed to reply with "sex"
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And I'm in Nottingham, Englad and the venue was The Birmingham Sea Life Centre, Birmingham, UK!
something fishy is going on!
though of course sharks aren't fish
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Check out the Whacking Day episode... Barry White saves the city's snakes by singing "I Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby" (not sure if that's the right title).
:)
So, if the snakes can respond to Barry, I don't see why other animals wouldnt...
Mark
where they were playing Celine Dion.
... By the time it got to: I Beeeeelieeeeve that my heart will go Oooooooon the tank was filled with blood and one surviving very injured shark.
Now those were some fucking angry sharks!:
Neeeeeaar Faaaaaaar, Whereeeeeveeer Yooou Are *MAD FRENZY BEGAN*
No; For the "love" it always has to be Barry White!
Besides the Simpsons episode regarding snakes, maybe a scarier prospect would be the King of the Hill episode, Return to La Grunta. Hank gets attacked by a horny dolphin! (Along with other people.)
Someone must alert Mr. White now!! Before it's too late!!!!
Mark
Lenny Henry (the British Comedian) said something like (and I'm paraphrasing) "Sex with Barry White must be like shagging an ink blotter", and that the noises he makes during the act (the same ones he makes into the microphone) are really him saying "Get me a crane, I can't get up".
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I would rather a shark try to eat me, than try to get all freaky with me!!!! Oh wait...
we just stuff Barry White full of aphrodisiacs and then feed him to the sharks. Anyone object?
lol, I've seen that before, and i'm convinced its a fake.
I seem to remember a potbellied pig, an elephant, a chef, and Elton John.
It must be pretty hard to find a red velvet smoking jacket that has provision for a fin, much less a pimp hat that would work for a Sphyrna Lewini...
(I don't know what species of shark these are, I just picked that one randomly.)
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Screw Barry White. We all know that Chef is the one true master of getting sharks to get down.
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Errr, thanks for sharing.
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They I think this the next stag of the experement, dumping 100 bottles of red wine into the tank.
If that does not get the sharks going, then there is something very wrong with the boy-sharks...
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
...white sharks?
how bout a bottle of courvosier AND barry white??
I have no desire to reach nirvana.
Barry white day eh? Oh hell that would confuse the shit out of any japanese tourist or immegrants that would show up around that time of year.
They have a valentines day too, but then shortly after that they have a white day. That day is where everythings reversed, instead of the boys getting girls stuff.. girls give boys stuff.
Then they'd be wonderin who Barry is, and why it's his white day.
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I do production work for bands (lights and sound) and recently did a private party for half.com at the New Jersey State Aquarium in Camden and the sound system that was used that night consisted of 4 18" subwoofers. The stage was directly across the dance floor from one of the large windows looking into the main ocean tank, which holds various sharks and other fish that are native to the North Atlantic. After the band began playing, I looked at the tank and noticed that some of the fish were getting more frisky instead of simply moping around the tank like they normally do. I didn't notice any intercourse, but I wasn't really looking for it.
Daniel J. Kelly
Will they need a special authorization from RIAA as they'll broadcast it to an audience of ten sharks ?
Will RIAA somehow invoke the DMCA and order the National Sea Life Center to shut down its operations immediatelly because they're causing billions of dollars in losses ?
He gets moderated 'insightful' for trying to be funny, and you get moderated 'funny' for being serious.
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Jordan Bettis
One can only hope that unlike my better half, those sharks are living in an irony-free post-september-11 world, and will be transported by the mellow voice of love.
Dirk
this is the best post i've ever seen on /. thanks chrisd!
i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
why my Iron Maiden Cds weren't working.... :)
...in the throes of passion, the last thing I want to hear is a deep male voice.
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2) Enough older to make a difference
3) I think I'll have to second an earlier statement of, "Not according to my IQ test."
4) While I have to cop to arrogant, (What's wrong with it, after all.) ignorant of other cultures in the US? I would have to say not. It's this point I will _have_ to take offense at. In my life, I've had about as multi-cultural an experience as it is possible to have had. We can first examine the varieties of European culture I've gathered into myself: Grandmother's parents owned a quarry and had lots of greek and italian employees. (Come to think of it, her family's the likely reason for such a relatively large greek population in the area I'm living in now.) Little greek and italian customs got incorperated into their holiday celebrations.
My step-father's family were born in (and spent their early life in) Germany. Came over before WWII and stayed here. They were my first exposure to real german cooking, customs, and culture. (Kind of like Jewish Grandmother TM, but without as much guilt)
My own life has been spent living near and having as close friends people from rather diverse backgrounds. The first time I had Vietnamese food was some good friends of my step-father coming by and cooking us an extensive meal. (I've been very glad of the rise in popularity of Vietnamese resaurants.) How many "whitey" guys know what uses you can put rice flour to? Hell, do you know what Pali Tao (Spelling?) is, much less, how to make it?
Hell, my friends taught me to swear in other languages almost before I learned to cuss in English.
Am I a racial melting-pot? Nope. I'm pretty much a European Alley-Cat. I'll admit that much. Am I devoid of cultural diversity? Hell no. Your own accusations are about as well-informed and narrow-minded as the statement, "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand." I cry foul on all such separatism and self-serving arrogance. Damn right, there are things that I won't instinctively or immediately understand because of my racial and cultural identity. This does NOT excuse you from trying to explain, nor does it excuse me from trying to understand. I run into things like this fairly often (unfortunately) with my fiance. She will react in a certain, seemingly non-sensical way to a situation leaving me baffled. Generally, it will be a subtlty of the censored-American cultural phenominom that I've completely missed. However, I've gotten quite a bit better at understanding said subtlties, and these things come up less often as time goes by. We suspect that I'm on my way to understanding the censored-American experience better than anyone not born to it.
5) You say this like it's a bad thing. I've never been much on soul, so haven't really even sought out it's artists. Having heard his voice, I can respect it. Damn, but he's impressive vocally. Your accusation is rediculous though. It'd be like criticizing "whitey" for never having heard of James Earl Jones before they'd seen Star Wars. I'll admit to that: I was around 7-11 at the time... Too damned young for to pay any attention to actor credits, much less voice-actor credits!
I'll go ya one better: my high school German teacher was saying "Don't have a cow!" looooooooong before the Simpsons first aired...