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Stupid Pet Tricks
I refer to indiosyncratic capabilities that people have with little, if any, useful application as "stupid pet tricks" (SPTs).
My SPT is the ability to identify people merely by listening to their voice. So, for example:
There's a scene in The Majestic in which unseen "Hollywood executives" are engaged in an inane conversation in which they are making bad decisions. The voices are all done by famous writer-directors who may very well have written the dialogue themselves: Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Sidney Pollack, Garry Marshall, and Paul Mazursky. I was able to identify all but Mazursky, whom I had never heard before. I found it especially entertaining because I realized in real-time, the directors were giving Hollywood executives their comeuppance.
For years, Jimmy Dean did the voice-overs on his TV sausage ads. For years after he died, they continued the recorded voice, while changing the graphics, or adding dialogue from actors. Then, they started auditioning voices to replace Dean. They were all wide-off the mark IMAO, including the guy they settled on.
When I've actually heard a performer before, I can identify the singer on The Masked Singer. So, for example, I identified Dick Van Dyke. I was uncertain at first, because Dick & Jerry Van Dyke sounded very much alike, especially as they got older, but then I remembered that Jerry was dead. Most, of the time, however, I have no idea who the performers are, even if they showed up in their birthday suits.
What are your personal SPTs? 😄
(This is not a solicited opportunity for you to talk about your pets.)
Lee
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