Sunday evening random fact

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  1. SuperTyke

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    When you click your fingers the clicking sound isn't actually made by your finger and thumb snapping against each other, it's made by your finger hitting your hand after it slides off your thumb.
     
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  2. Mr C

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    Wrong. It is made by the build up and release of friction caused by the pressure of the finger and thumb. The energy is subsequently transmitted in sound, the snap is amplified and shaped by the hollow of the palm of your hand.

    Need help with anything else?
     
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    He`s probably ready for a wnak abart nar ar tha fixed.
     
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    Well that's the last time I believe anything that Stephen Fry says on QI
     
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  5. Mr C

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    Well he has been watching the big cuddly teddy bear, Stephen Fry. It's enough to get me going.:eek:
     
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    So who do we believe, Stephen Fry or Mr C? I think I may have to conduct an experiment to settle this.
     
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    If it's caused by friction between thumb and finger then i should be able to make the same sound between my left finger and right thumb, but i can't.

    I vote Fry
     
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    Silly chuff :D
     
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    Could be a good contest that. Trade pseudo intellectual, rhetorical ***** til I get stuck for a comeback and lamp him one? Not going there again....
     
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    Who's right? Mr C or Stephen Fry? There's only one way to find out...

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    Re: Who's right? Mr C or Stephen Fry? There's only one way to find out...

    Did you have to put that up, it was just getting interesting? Edit it out, or I'm taking me ball in.
     
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    I'm afraid you're wrong Mr C. The sound is the result of your finger slapping on your hand (generally the base of the thumb). If it was simply a build up and release of friction, then one could produce the sound by rubbing your finger and thumb together and releasing them in an outward motion (think rolling a bogey at high speed straight into jazz hands) and you can't. The plam of ones hand does affect the amplification and tone of the 'click', but it's possible to produce a sound with the hollow of the palm filled, for example with the fingers of your other hand, leading to a convex shape, rather than a concave one. It's also possible to produce a similar sound by rapidly slapping a finger against ones palm, somewhat in the stylee of those new-fangled hip-hop types ones sees on tv.
     
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  14. Mr C

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    Hate doing this, please excuse.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(fingers)
     
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    Just because its on wikipedia doesn't mean it's correct. Try stopping the finger slapping on your hand. You lose the largest part of the clicking noise.
     
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    I've done nothing else for the last hour! :)
     
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    That is what my experiment concluded too. I vote Fry.
     
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    Well I can bend my little finger down to touch the palm of my hand while keeping my other 3 fingers straight up, stick that in your pipe and smoke it Fry na na na
     
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    Good flexibility. Have you ever tried to give yourself a blowjob? You might be pleasantly surprised!
     
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    I tried that but reached too far and blew in the wrong hole and now my face is a bit fatter,
     
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