Want To Hear The Most Annoying Sound In The World?

"Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?" said Jim Carrey (Lloyd Christmas) to Mike Starr (Joe "Mental" Mentalino) while riding in a furry, dog shaped, van with Jeff Daniels (Harry Dunnes, Lloyd's roommate) in the movie Dumb and Dumber.

Truly one of the funniest movies, I would never have thought that, that line may have been founded in some toddler vocal research. Did the writer have a 15 month old Pia sitting next to him/her when they wrote that funny dialogue into the script? Because even though she has never seen the movie she can make the sound to a "T". And yes, Lloyd Christmas of Providence, Rhode Is., it is the most irritating sound in the world.

Walter and I have been working and working with Sophia to sign her desires, as we did with Padon who adopted signs like they were noth'n. But our pleads of "more please, drink?, food?" and "all done?" has still resulted in a louder decibel of a grating "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" (see movie for exact sound byte). It wasn't until we dropped Sophia off at "school" that I over heard another little girl in her room making the exact same sound in request to be picked up off the floor and carried over to the snack table instead of using her perfectly capable crawling skills to get her there. This was echoed by a little boy, already at the table, at his displeasure in finding he had eaten all of his goldfish crackers. Well, I suppose it's nice to know she's learning something. It was nice to see the teacher followed the little boy's sound with "more please" and said to the little girl "come on Kaitlyn, come sit down for snack." I don't remember this with Padon, although I do remember Walter saying loudly to Padon in the car "Padon! Don't scream in the car, it's too loud!" Maybe he did....maybe I repressed it. In any case I hope it is short lived, sheesh!