Comments on: My mom is a parselmouth http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/ the search continues... Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: d thomas http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/comment-page-1/#comment-9464 d thomas Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:10:46 +0000 http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-moms-a-parselmouth#comment-9464 I was talking about this site in a pub last night, and this woman I didn't know said she could talk to giraffes. (And before you ask, no, she wasn't very tall.) I asked her if she'd been to Africa, and she said, "No. Regents Park Zoo." Her name in giraffe, she told me, was Nen. I was talking about this site in a pub last night, and this woman I didn’t know said she could talk to giraffes. (And before you ask, no, she wasn’t very tall.) I asked her if she’d been to Africa, and she said, “No. Regents Park Zoo.” Her name in giraffe, she told me, was Nen.

]]> By: d thomas http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/comment-page-1/#comment-9463 d thomas Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:14:38 +0000 http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-moms-a-parselmouth#comment-9463 Well, as I say, hyperaudition helps (the ability to hear sounds outside the normal range). It actually is a problem. So many electronic devices emit high-pitched sounds these days it gives me discomfort. But anyway, when I hear bats in the vicinity I start to make an S sound right at the front of my hard palate, then raise the pitch until it just crosses the line where even I can't hear it. And they come swooping! I was staying in a farmhouse, reputedly haunted, just north of Aberystwyth once, and had to cross dark fields to get back. And I used to do the batty thing every night. Then, one night, I had the most terrifying dream. I was dead, and being judged by a panel of man-sized black bats in legal robes. I had to recount every moment of my entire life. The fearful thing was, they already knew it all. So I had to be utterly honest about myself, my intentions, my actions, everything. If I got it wrong, or fudged any issue (lied, basically) I was done for. How scary is that? Well, as I say, hyperaudition helps (the ability to hear sounds outside the normal range). It actually is a problem. So many electronic devices emit high-pitched sounds these days it gives me discomfort. But anyway, when I hear bats in the vicinity I start to make an S sound right at the front of my hard palate, then raise the pitch until it just crosses the line where even I can’t hear it. And they come swooping!

I was staying in a farmhouse, reputedly haunted, just north of Aberystwyth once, and had to cross dark fields to get back. And I used to do the batty thing every night. Then, one night, I had the most terrifying dream. I was dead, and being judged by a panel of man-sized black bats in legal robes. I had to recount every moment of my entire life. The fearful thing was, they already knew it all. So I had to be utterly honest about myself, my intentions, my actions, everything. If I got it wrong, or fudged any issue (lied, basically) I was done for. How scary is that?

]]> By: praveen http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/comment-page-1/#comment-9462 praveen Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:50:12 +0000 http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-moms-a-parselmouth#comment-9462 :-)) Indeed an interesting character you are, maybe you should try to pass your skills on as well! :-)) Indeed an interesting character you are, maybe you should try to pass your skills on as well!

]]> By: d thomas http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/comment-page-1/#comment-9461 d thomas Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:30:45 +0000 http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-moms-a-parselmouth#comment-9461 Sorry, did I scare you? Sorry, did I scare you?

]]> By: d thomas http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/comment-page-1/#comment-9459 d thomas Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:28:47 +0000 http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-moms-a-parselmouth#comment-9459 I can talk to bats. Frightened the wits out of a tourist ghost walk in the city of Bath once. At the end of the walk it was dark, and we went to this park for the final spooky lecture. I heard the bats, so I started calling them. No-one else could hear me, of course (I have hyperaudition), but when my wife noticed I was doing that ultrasonic whistling through my teeth, she nudged me hard to get me to stop. But I was having fun, standing there with my coat collar turned up, and hands in pockets. When the bats started whirling round me - around three or four of them - everyone else started edging nervously away. Hilarious! I can talk to bats. Frightened the wits out of a tourist ghost walk in the city of Bath once. At the end of the walk it was dark, and we went to this park for the final spooky lecture. I heard the bats, so I started calling them. No-one else could hear me, of course (I have hyperaudition), but when my wife noticed I was doing that ultrasonic whistling through my teeth, she nudged me hard to get me to stop. But I was having fun, standing there with my coat collar turned up, and hands in pockets. When the bats started whirling round me – around three or four of them – everyone else started edging nervously away. Hilarious!

]]> By: praveen http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-mom-is-a-parselmouth/comment-page-1/#comment-9408 praveen Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:52:59 +0000 http://www.neoalchemist.com/20050613/my-moms-a-parselmouth#comment-9408 Yogustus, Thanks, so do you :-) Yogustus,

Thanks, so do you :-)

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