Sorry, I got distracted by another thread. This is cool - I have very poor directional hearing (when I walk into the house, can't tell if my wife is upstairs or down when she calls out, and it is a small house...), but some people don't. Anyway, thanks for sharing this.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Having just returned from a walk with Paris and > Pippin, I can report that Leiden, Netherlands > still announces its fervor for the Christmas > season using church bells. > > Because one of my moonlighting gigs involves > ghostwriting articles for audiologists who hope > to make money by pretending that they actually > write the articles on their websites (*most* of > the the articles written by "doctors" on the > Internet don't really have anything to do with > the actual writing of them), I can report that > reality just *isn't* the way you perceive it > to be. :-) > > One of the things I learned in my ghostwriting > activities for these sleazeball audiologists > is that the human ear is remarkably *directional*, > meaning that it can accurately interpret the > approximate physical source of a sound, just > by hearing it. > > Tonight, as I was walking my dogs, I located > no fewer than five different sources of church > bells, calling the few "faithful" who heard them > to prayer, in my neighborhood. On the walk, I > passed three of them. No one was responding to > the "call." > > You can parse that information however you choose > to. I'm just presenting the facts. You can spin > them any way you want to. :-) >
