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The record player

posted 18 years ago by chinaskee
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How come the puppet people were able to listen to loud music out of a normal size record player without their puppet sized eardrums exploding in a matter of seconds from what would be to them an incredibly intense decibel level ?

[–] flan99 16 years ago

Probably for the same reason that cats and squirrels and hampsters don't explode.

[–] jimbo-38 15 years ago

Um...my hamster exploded.

So, to sum it up in legal terminology: Get lost, you bum.

[–] MrBelette 12 years ago

Yes I know but both of us know it wasn't from listening to loud music eh ?

[–] wakanasakai 9 years ago

You might as well ask why the shrunken people's voices sounded normal, even though their vocal cords were 1/10 of their normal size. They should have sounded like chipmunks.

I disagree. The 2 things (individually as well as together) that would've caused a higher pitched sounding voice (from somebody whose voice isn't naturally high pitched already) are lighter atmospheric pressure, & the thickness of their vocal cords. The shrinking process in this movie kept everything about the "dolls" anatomies' the same, so we can rule out their vocal cords being different. I think that the atmospheric pressure difference was negligible at most for them, & I think that it would've (slightly) increased for them instead of decreasing. However, I do think that being shrunk would've made their voices somewhat quieter.
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[–] EtaoinShrdlu001 8 years ago

Um..hamster exploded

Jimbo-38, did you have the volume up to 11, again?

How many more hamsters must die while you perfect your tiny little hamster headphones?

It must be (painfully) obvious to you by now, that our furry friends cannot - can not handle the Coke, the Remy, those big-ass Guinea Pig hos and Death Metal Rap turned up to Eleven!
C'mon, just picking 'em up gets them so adrenaline freaked that they poop in your hand.

Put them on some Fleet Foxes or Ferrante and Teicher, Enya . . whatever -- just keep the volume down and the wheel oiled!

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Happy Hip-Hop Hamster Headphones. We're talkin' millions!

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[–] layton59 15 years ago

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How come the puppet people were able to listen to loud music out of a normal size record player without their puppet sized eardrums exploding in a matter of seconds from what would be to them an incredibly intense decibel level ?

Probably for the same reason that cats and squirrels and hampsters don't explode.

NOW THAT MADE ME LAUGH.

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[–] scotbpens 15 years ago

You might as well ask why the shrunken people's voices sounded normal, even though their vocal cords were a tenth of their normal size. They should have sounded like chipmunks.

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[–] schwapj 9 years ago

How about this--why couldn't the desk sergeant hear them when they were all shouting right into the phone, but Bob could hear the teenager from all the way over at the office door. The record player was on the whole time.

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[–] greenbudgie (2355) 3 years ago

The loud music tolerance bit occurred to me as well but maybe this is not an issue. My budgies tolerate loud noises when they occur when high decibel fireworks are being set off locally. It's extremely high-pitched noises that we cannot hear which they have problems with. They go crazy at the moment a police car siren is just turned but inaudible to human ears. Moments later when I can hear the police siren for myself is when I realize what is wrong with them.