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2010-01-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

So you think George S. Patton sounded like George C. Scott

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-01-26 15:04|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Sounded ok to me. The old recordings always seem to lack any depth of bass. I liked his delivery, seemed like he had a dark sense of humor, my kind of humor.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-01-26 16:59|| 2010-01-26 16:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I've heard him before. He sounded like my grandfather.

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-26 17:02|| 2010-01-26 17:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Patton, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abe Lincoln all had high-tenor speaking voices. They were also among history's greatest badasses.

Posted by Mike 2010-01-26 17:04|| 2010-01-26 17:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Voices are funny things. It is alleged that barrel chested Teddy Roosevelt actually had a high, squeaky voice. But it still worked out for him, and crowds liked his wholesale ripoff of Nietzsche in his speeches (pointed out by H.L. Mencken).

William Jennings Bryan, however, sounded like an undertaker, but his speaking had a hypnotic quality that "Even if you didn't believe a word of it before or after, while he was speaking, it made sense."

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-26 17:06|| 2010-01-26 17:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Recordings don't convey the personal charisma that these men had.

Posted by john frum 2010-01-26 17:48|| 2010-01-26 17:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounded better than the descriptions I have read of it. Also sounded more aristocratic, like FDR, also a tenor.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-26 18:08|| 2010-01-26 18:08|| Front Page Top

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