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.'

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

Future garbage truck driver.

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

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

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

Artist and Musician

My other cello is a Stradivari

'He likes a room where he can reverberate.'

Scarpia's Palace

he used to belong to a cartoonist

B.B. King

'You haven't heard anything yet!'

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

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

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!

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

"You know damn well what noise!"

People bell ringing - 'RING TONES'

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

The sounds of a tree falling in the forest.

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,'

Library Grand Opening

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

The Gong

Some musicians discovering a noise from a boiling kettle

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

Dave Brubeck

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

Playing dustbins

"Vuuuuuuuuuuu!"

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

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