Siren's Song?

[John Doe]

...but this time, don't forget the gravy....

--- Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> We'll attack at noon. They'll think it's lunch.
> 
> 
> On 11/1/05, ruudsaurins at aol.com
> <ruudsaurins at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > A squeaming comes aquoss this guy......
> >  ......and its while of the list....as a child
> growing up (trying to) in
> > suburban Chicago, I was fascinated by the periodic
> testing of the civil
> > defence siren whose piercing noise (screaming?)
> could not be missed and
> > would interrupt whatever was going on at the time.
> Since it was never
> > accompanied by any air raids, it assumed the
> peculiar traits of being
> > simultaneously obnoxious and reassuring. It was as
> if our government wished
> > to let us know in no uncertain terms that they
> could warn us if needed.
> >  I was always puzzled by the "screaming" at the
> opening of GR, knowing
> > that the V-2 was faster than sound. That the
> screaming could be a siren
> > never occurred to me. Now (Thanx!, posters!) it
> seems quite possible that
> > the screaming is a siren, and that the inspiration
> may have been TRP's
> > adolescent exposure to the civil defence sirens of
> Long Island, assuming
> > they employed the same technology. Does anyone out
> there know if Long Island
> > had those obnoxious little buggers?
> >  truly,
> >  ruud
> >
> 


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