Stuff 2: More Stuff – Whistling Stuff (plus more other stuff)

More Whistling Stuff:                                                                                                                                                                        

How to make paper dance: Tear or cut a narrow strip of paper (about six centimetres long and three centimetres wide) and, holding it level with your mouth, start to whistle. Your whistling will blow air onto the paper so that it looks like its dancing to your whistle. Backwards Whistling – By backwards I mean creating a whistling sound by sucking air in rather than blowing it out. It’s a bit tricky at first but I started out by making a chirping sound like a bird and gradually moved onto full whistling. Combining Backwards and Normal Whistling – My backwards whistle is more high pitched and bird like than my normal whistle and so I like switching between them. Another advantage of combining sucking and blowing is that you can breathe in and out while whistling and therefore don’t have to stop to take a breath. The referee whistle effect – Once you’ve mastered your backwards whistling, try making a sound like a referees whistle (with a rattling pea) by collecting saliva in your mouth and whistling through the saliva; the saliva will make a bubbling sound which, combined with the whistle, sounds just like a referees tin whistle. Mine also sounds a bit like a canary because of its high pitch. The Click at the back of your throat- It is possible to make that click at the back of your throat whilst humming, whistling or chanting like a percussion instrument to accompany the wind instrument of your voice. The Fanned Hand Snap- Simply fan out all the fingers on your right hand and strike the side of it against the palm of your left hand and you should hear a buzzing sort of snap (Half way between a burp and a snap) as all your splayed out fingers are knocked together. Alternatively, you can make the same noise by striking your fanned out fingers with the palm of your other hand or by striking your fanned hand against your arm.  Secret Back Pocket – Need to hide stuff behind your back that won’t fit into your back pocket? Why not have a big pocket sown onto the back of your sweater/jacket so that you can just drop the object into it or, if you don’t feel like going to all that trouble, you can just use the hood of a hoodie to stash things in because it hangs down over your back just like a pouch. Shadow Communication- Why not combine shadows with sign language? Create a shadow code and send secret messages just by using your hand and a torch beam or, alternatively, you could use symbols cut out of paper to cast the shadows. Emergency Acronyms Sometimes ordinary people get into situations where they can’t speak or haven’t got time to speak and in such situations an acronym type of code is very useful. Here are some acronyms that I’ve thought up that could be slipped into ordinary conversations without being detected. A.I.D = Am In Danger R.U.N. = Rescue Urgently Needed R.U.S.H. = Really Urgent Send Help G.O. = Get Out W.A.I.T. = We Are In Trouble H.I.N.T. = He is not trustworthy And spoken acronym codes could also contain letters that sound like words, for example: U.C. (Sounds like ‘You See?’) = Understand code? Yes,I.C. (Sounds like 'I See') = Yes,In Code. L.O. (Sounds like ‘hello’) = Look Out Object Puppetry/Fake Levitation Cup a small object in your hands with your right hand under your left hand (You can do it with your fingers interlaced as well) and then bend the middle finger of your right hand upwards and poke it between two fingers of your left hand. Now use that finger to lift and manipulate the object you are holding, making sure that no one can see the finger, and it will appear as if the object in your cupped hands is floating/moving by itself.

Doh-Reh-Mi  (Solfeggio) Whistling code

Here is a musical whistling code that is very easy to learn because it is made using the famous (See “The Sound of Music”)  Doh, Reh, Mi, Fa, Soh, Lah, Ti, Doh (Combine it with an acronym code like that mentioned above and you will also be able to communicate long messages). (You could also combine it with the clicking code. See "Stuff 2")

Doh – Reh  =  A

Doh-Mi  = B

Doh-fa = C

Doh-Soh = D

Doh-Lah = F

Doh-Ti = G

Doh-doh = H

Reh- Mi = I

Reh –Fah = J

Reh – Soh = K

Reh- La = L

Reh – Ti = M

Mi – Fa = N

Mi – Soh = O

Mi- Lah = P

Fah –Soh = Q

Fah – Lah = R

Fah – Ti = S

Fah-Fah = T

Soh – La = U

Soh- Ti = V

Soh –Soh= W

Lah – Ti = X

Lah – Lah = Y

Ti- Ti = Z       

How to talk with string (or how you can send silent Morse code).

You can make your very own secret silent communicator just by taking hold of one end of a piece of string and giving the other end to your friend then communicating by tugging upon the string.

Of course you have to create a tugging code first (or just use Morse code) but you could run a long string between two rooms or all the way across your house if you wanted to and then communicate by tugging on the string.

Plus Plus: Syllable code

A syllable code is a verbal code in which the words aren’t important, only the number and distribution of syllables in each sentence.

For example, this piece of gibberish: “Tom-tom and Pooble” would equal “2 syllable word, 1 syllable word, 2 syllable word”  or “2-1-2” and that would translate into a word for example “2-1-2 means Warning”.