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Slice1358 t1_izmhqe0 wrote

very cool
...- . .-. -.-- / -.-. --- --- .-..

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MechanicalHorse t1_izmlhbj wrote

Holy shit, that's actually really interesting!

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krista t1_izmoml2 wrote

rush's song, ”yyz” (pronounced 'why why zed') has a morse code intro and beat, spelling out y-y-z, which is the airport code of their home town. they would hear this coming from the cockpit returning home from tour, so they made a song from it.

rush- yyz

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ZorroMeansFox t1_izmr50j wrote

Yes; all hail Lalo Schifrin. I've always had a soft spot for Theme Songs featuring bongos.

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Lurker_931 t1_izmus7g wrote

I always wonder if they just decided to use 5/4 because it sounded cool and then they're like "oh of course...Morse code... Totally intentional, didn't think you'd catch that"

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BobDaBilda t1_izmutv8 wrote

I've got the Cowboy Bebop theme stuck in my head instead, and can't remember this one.

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AtebYngNghymraeg t1_izmxzqc wrote

The entire theme tune to the British series "some mother's do 'av 'em" is in Morse code, spelling out the title.

Also, the series Inspector Morse spells out Morse.

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astrolane t1_izmyd96 wrote

That's awesome and checking it with a Morse translator blows your mind and all, but now I'll sing it like MImiMiMImimiMIMImimimi :(

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solblurgh t1_izn0k3o wrote

I don't even know what I should say

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BurtMacklin-FBl t1_izn0pap wrote

Iron Maiden song about an airship disaster has an SOS distress signal in morse code in middle section of the song. So does Metallica's Cyanide intro.

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krichuvisz t1_izn1g20 wrote

Replying to Lurker_931 (#898,560)

if you do long long short short with regular 4th and 8th notes, you get a nice country waltz. So somebody tried dotted quarters and regular quarters and here we go.

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Rit_Zien t1_izn1sr7 wrote

This is why I know four whole letters in Morse code. Can't think of anything interesting I can spell with S,O,M,I though. If I learn T, I can spell moist 🤷‍♀️

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bulakenyo1980 t1_izn2pmh wrote

Interesting.

IIRC, the old Nokia telephone’s text message alert sound,

. . . - - . . .

Spells S M S in Morse code.

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EternamD t1_izn38vj wrote

get is it is iconic beat

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SandysBurner t1_izn3l1z wrote

The title music from QI has a website written in Morse code hidden in the melody.

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[deleted] t1_izn9dxd wrote

r/titlegore

Another day, another uneducated reddator owned. Tonight i sleep well 😌

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justasmalltowndad t1_iznfntk wrote

Admit it, you said "long long short short" to the MI tune...

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Crystal_Doorknob t1_iznjn66 wrote

Replying to davebees (#898,896)

Oooh! Fifty years ago I was in girl scouts and learned this mnemonic for some morse code letters:

Enemy Is Secretly Hiding

and

Take Morse Orders

E, I, S, H are . .. ... .... (dit, ditdit, ditditdit, ditditditdit)

T, M, O are - -- --- (dah, dahdah, dahdahdah)

Therefore, about the only thing I can remember from my Girl Scout days is how to bang out the word SHIT in morse code.

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mlvezie t1_iznlj0g wrote

And the alert if you leave your keys in a Honda is . . . ., the letter H

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WaterFriendsIV t1_iznoin2 wrote

And here I was mistakenly humming the Hawaii 5-0 theme thinking, "Wait a minute, that doesn't fit!"

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DresdenPI t1_iznpj3p wrote

Replying to Slice1358 (#898,082)

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KyleMcMn t1_iznslnl wrote

It’s funny how there is only 1 grammatical error in this title but I still had a stroke trying to read it at first.

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19NotMe73 t1_iznu9dx wrote

And Beethoven's Fifth (Roman numeral V) iconic "short short short long" is also V in Morse code

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2Sp00kyAndN0ped t1_iznybzp wrote

Replying to BizzyM (#899,443)

The loop doesn't line up with the timing from the previous loop. I don't know what to think. Is the 1hr loop supposed to be a torture? If so, the fucked up loop is perfect.

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skolsuper t1_izo6tw4 wrote

Check out the morse code for SMS:

dotdotdot dashdash dotdotdot

Now think back to the text message notification sound on old Nokia phones...

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20127010603170562316 t1_izo9lg9 wrote

Replying to kent_eh (#900,253)

Why do you think this is? Is there a psychological reason?

If I give you a spoonful of the treat now, does that make you want more later?

My videos can be quite boring (abandoned military stuff etc.) and long, so offering the taste maybe gives the viewer something to look forward to?

Honestly curious.

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frankybling t1_izodu6t wrote

always counted it as 1,2-1,2,3 in band class.

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kent_eh t1_izofs9g wrote

Replying to 20127010603170562316 (#900,865)

People simply want you to get to the point and not waffle on about things that aren't relevant to the topic of the video.

Nobody cares that "it's ya boyee" or that this is "another video from my channel", and they certainly don't want to hear begging for "likecommentsubscribe" before being shown anything relevant to their interests.

And returning viewers have already seen that flashy animated graphic, it doesn't add anything to their enjoyment of your video - they came here for the content, not the filler.

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The teaser intro reassures them that this video is going to be about what they are interested in, so they're less likely to bail out early.

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ja2ke t1_izoiy68 wrote

Replying to ZanyDelaney (#898,385)

For some other examples: Battlestar Galactica (original and new series), Murder She Wrote, Space: 1999, Magnum PI all do this as well. It was a popular “stay tuned to this show!” technique from the 60s through the early 80s.

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00134 t1_izopuvh wrote

Which part is long long short shortThe first four notes if the MI theme is short short long long?

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SimpleSalami1965 t1_izoqbp7 wrote

Replying to IndividualRule9488 (#901,636)

Fair enough. Some (I'd like to say "many") anti-abortion activists are also fascists, and their approach to their anti-abortion activities borrow from fascist philosophy, but it is not true that anti-abortion activism in itself is a fascist thing.

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SplendidPunkinButter t1_izotlfh wrote

Replying to MuadDave (#900,219)

We did the offertory from Leonard Bernstein’s Mass when I was in marching band, which is in 3/8+3/4. Basically you’d do one slow step for the 3/8 measure, then three fast steps for the 3/4 measure. So it was a slow/fast/fast/fast pattern that still added up to 4 steps every 2 measures.

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00134 t1_izoxd5f wrote

Replying to pango3001 (#901,922)

Isn’t the tune short short long long?

Edit. Looked up the sheet music. Never knew it was 1/8 1/8 1/2 1/2 in the intro. Thought the relevant measure was the 1/4° 1/8 1/4° 1/4°

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herbw t1_izp2lxu wrote

Round here, there's lots of emphasis on "long" or "short". Thank you , Father Freud. Right again.

& that's the long and the short of it.

And "The End" is in view.

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Baldussimo t1_izp662o wrote

Very cool and blew my mind! Thanks for sharing.

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madclarinet t1_izplwrg wrote

Old 1970's British Sitcom "Some mother Do 'Ave 'Em" also did that with the theme tune. The tune is the more for the title. My dad didn't notice if for years and he was an avid ham radio operator so when it was pointed out to him it was funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE3ZWFadjgs

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IndividualRule9488 t1_izpnljh wrote

Replying to justeffnestle (#902,876)

What you call denying, i call proof that not all people think alike, take muslim culture for example. Ive talked to people in iran and they literally bully women and kill women if they have sex with men without seeking for a marriage. If im looking at whether i get no abortion rights, or get fucking killed because i slept with few too many people, im taking the lack of abortion.

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GSyncNew t1_izpwzma wrote

This altered my entire perception of reality.

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IndividualRule9488 t1_izq34yw wrote

Replying to SimpleSalami1965 (#901,654)

Well as we saw with the other guy, who commented "what a shit fucking take" or whatever the fuck, deleted his account. I cant understand why people dont just talk out their feelings anymore rather than get pissed off because someone's take is different. Which was my exact point throughout my discourse with them. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, people who are Christians do not like abortion. Their religion is against murder which can be said that you are killing/murdering a baby that hasnt been born yet. Its all semantics but in my eyes whichever side has the most votes wins, its not about what one specific group of people want but about what the majority of the US' population agrees on.

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IndividualRule9488 t1_izq8ecr wrote

Replying to SimpleSalami1965 (#903,825)

Because when you start a public discourse it usually lasts about that length of time, and usually ends in either an agreement, or an agreement to disagree. With people like that nobody can have opinions of their own. I find it "funny" because of the fact that i myself suffer from a disorder that makes it where i cannot argue my own case from time to time due to my lack of ability to string words together as seamlessly as others. When people talk shit and get all pissy, that is fine to me. But when you decide "im going to block such and such because their views are different than mine", it brings it into a whole different ballfield.

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FredEffinShopan t1_izqon1d wrote

Since we’re naming 5/4 songs now, My Wave by Soundgarden. One of the members, if I remember correctly, said they felt bad for the crowd trying to move to it at live shows

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ZorroMeansFox t1_izqr835 wrote

Replying to PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS (#903,034)

Yes; and Lalo's connection which led to him getting this gig is that the Mission: Impossible TV series was created by the same guy who created Mannix, Bruce Geller.

I've always thought the fly Theme Music to Mannix was the best thing about that show. The rest of the show's music (especially when diegetic) wasn't composed or chosen by Lalo, and it was almost always embarrassingly the opposite of "hip/cool." And that was also true of Mike Connor's character, who thought of himself as suave and irresistible to the babes, but who always came off like someone's dad trying lame moves and smarmy pick-up lines.

I've come to believe that Mannix might be the worst TV detective ever. He took forever to figure out what was going on, even when utterly obvious, he was caught off-guard and jumped almost every episode, he loses most of his fights, his secretary Peggy does most of the investigative heavy lifting, his physical acting always looked stiffly robotic, and he's terrible at trying to make the hard-boiled noir dialogue he's saddled-with sound convincing. Oddly, I've seen Connors in lots of other roles before he became Mannix, and he almost always played the heavy. And he was terrific as a bad guy. But it's leading man parts in a hit series that pay the bills.

A friend of mine had an old classic copy of Mad Magazine from the early '70s, when they parodied the show. They called it Mannuhx, because about the only acting trick Connors seemed to have was adding pauses punctuated by "uh" to give his line-readings some gravitas. Once I read that parody, I've never been able to watch the show without counting all his "uhs."

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PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS t1_izqu9nq wrote

Replying to ZorroMeansFox (#904,490)

I never paid attention to the “uh”s, but I definitely will (I’m sure now that you’ve pointed it out I won’t be able to un-hear them all, lol).

I think one private eye who was definitely worse than Mannix was Barnaby Jones, though. If Peggy did all the legwork for Mannix, Betty and JR (or whatever his name was) definitely did all the heavy lifting for Barnaby.

But the early to mid 70s was the time they were churning out cop/private eye shows like crazy, so yeah, some were bound to be better than others.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_izqvwf7 wrote

Replying to PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS (#904,588)

I think Barnaby was a very solid investigator, and maybe the only TV detective to have his own in-office Forensics Lab, which he operated himself.

But that show went into a tailspin in the later seasons when they brought in J.R. to appeal to the youngins and do some running around and athletic moves that Buddy Ebsen (Jed from The Beverly Hillbillies and the original Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz! *) was getting too old to pull off (although he did retain a surprising amount of athleticism, probably because he had a lean, trained dancer's body). But Mark Shera as J.R. might be the single worst actor I've ever seen in a starring part on TV. He's a charisma black hole and seemed less believable than the gang in Scooby-Doo's Mystery Team.

(*Note: Ebsen was originally cast as The Tin Man, but had to be replaced almost immediately by Jack Haley, because Buddy got very sick from breathing the aluminum dust in the character's metallic makeup.)

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