Speaker Stack Enthusiast Gifts

'But enough of our golden oldies! Here's a new one we just wrote called 'Middled-Aged Hearing Loss!''

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.'

One-man band rehearsal.

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

"Well dudes, gotta go. My honey needs a lot of attention."

"We tried six speakers, then twelve, and finally we put in the Pittsburgh Symphony, yet we still feel something is lacking."

People bell ringing - 'RING TONES'

The sounds of a tree falling in the forest.

"I call it angle-poise"

The Gong

"Being heard got me where I am today."

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

Some musicians discovering a noise from a boiling kettle

'If you see the congregation start to fall asleep, could you give me a little microphone feedback?'

"Wow! You've made a lovely job of those shelves in the hallway Gary!"

'My bike is so loud I couldn't hear my tunes.'

Older and wiser

'Access to the kids? No. I want access to the audio equipment.'

Musical Accidents

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

'Whom should I call first? 911 or the audio technician?'

"Congratulations, I now (phonetically) pronounce you Charles and Katherine Henderson."

Though he wrote the world's most listened-to melody, few people know of Tony Bombosa, the genius behind AOL Instant Messenger's four-note jingle.

"It's another one of our neighbors calling to complain. I think your sound bar may be working a little too well."

Before she disciplined a student, Principal Helen Edelman played recordings of previous visitors to her office.

I don't know how many times I've told Mahovlich - he's the speaker, not the goalie!

"Let me through - I'm a Sound Recordist!"

Little Jimmy Harmon: first to amplify the sparerib

'Pavlov, dear, either we get rid of the dog, or get a phone with a different ring tone!'

'I pimped your sound-system.'

"There is nothing wrong with our sound levels!!" "Can you speak up a bit? We can�t hear a word your saying..."

"It looks like the loud noises are coming from a sound system Dad, presumably set up to stop us from eating the grapes..."