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12.13.2004

mr. president, would you like to meet my wife minnie?

This installment of NPR's Lost and Found Sound must not be missed. Go listen. Don't believe me? The set up:

A pre-arranged phone call to the White House is planned. The idea is to have President Lyndon Johnson offer Commander Carpenter a formal congratulation. This is a purely ceremonial call. It should be cut-and-dried. But there's a bizarre problem. Commander Carpenter is no longer underwater; he's in a decompression chamber. He's breathing air in which nitrogen- the gas which can give people the bends- has been replaced by helium. Helium is harmless, but it distorts the voice. When he speaks, Commander Carpenter sounds like Mickey Mouse.

We are in agreement that LBJ sounds like a grandmother. (Via Boing Boing)

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