Man's Voice Reveals His Fighting Ability
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"'When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow.' This sentence includes every sound in the English language."
I see immediately it seems to lack the "oo" of food, so I don't think that's quite right. I would be very interested to see what an actual sentence is that does have all the sounds.
http://web.ku.edu/~idea/readings/rainbow.htm http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml#Rainbow
"The Rainbow Passage is one of the most common standard reading passages used to test an individual's ability to produce connected speech. Like the My Grandfather passage it is used in speech evaluations, but it is also used in studying accents, reading comprehension, as a speech exercise, and for testing language recognition software." from http://everything2.com/user/Tem42/writeups/The+Rainbow+Passa...
"When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow of food."
"When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow of good-eatin' food."
I'm hungry.
He was made fun of and was afraid to fight at first.
But then, apparently Tyson owned pigeons as a kid. Some guy from his neighborhood took a pigeon and said to him "You want your pigeon back?", and then proceeded to pop the pigeon's head off. Tyson then proceeded to beat the shit out of him (~6 mins into the documentary).
He was also so scared during his first amateur match that he thought about grabbing a train and leaving (minutes before the fight).
Watch "Tyson" on Netflix (streaming). He tells his life story, first person. Surprisingly moving and not a sensationalized account like you'd expect.
"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."
Sell and his colleagues could not precisely pinpoint what qualities in a man's voice indicate strength.
(No, I didn't pay for a concert ticket--they were on the radio from the Mall on 4th of July.)
Just curious: have you ever done that? Met someone in person without talking to them first?
Other than that I have not. But I never call women I met. It is either email or SMS. I try to avoid anything real time unless we are in the same place so you can read my body language.