Sound Effect Connoisseur Gifts

"Hello! Hello? Oh...haha! That's my ringtone!"

'I'm going to drag my sled up and down the sidewalk until the noise drives nature crazy and it snows.'

Future garbage truck driver.

"I only like their bad albums – the good ones are too commercial."

"I'll stop when I'm good and ready to."

Artist and Musician

'... and the winner for 'The Noisiest Picture of the Year' is...'

My other cello is a Stradivari

'He likes a room where he can reverberate.'

Scarpia's Palace

he used to belong to a cartoonist

'You haven't heard anything yet!'

'Don't forget to take your tranquilizers Daddy, little Jimmy is coming round to play.'

'It's in case I need a laugh track.'

"Come up and purr in her other ear... she likes the surround sound."

Wake the eff up with the official New York City alarm clock. Choose your distress signal: car horns, sirens, barking, heat pipes, mouse feet. Guaranteed to disturb!

"You know damn well what noise!"

People bell ringing - 'RING TONES'

Leaf-Blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

'The cannon will go off every 20 minutes just to make sure you're paying attention,'

The sounds of a tree falling in the forest.

"Threatening to call the Noise Abatement Society isn't being very romantic, Sydney."

Library Grand Opening

'This one is very effective. It sounds just like a can opener.'

Playing dustbins

"The sea waves on my sound machine are attracting a following."

"Harold, it's good you listen to your body, but must I listen to it too?"

"Would you mind telling me why you keep hitting a scary-music sound bite every time you pick up your steak knife?"

"Vuuuuuuuuuuu!"

The Gong

Some musicians discovering a noise from a boiling kettle

"Now that's what I call a sound system."

A question you can't ask at a football game - 'Has anyone lost their keys?'