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The universal greeting.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:42 pmby VecPrime
(looks back at it, and the Japanese pronunciation, Berwip crawna-wi pinibon)
Ber..WHEEP. craw-na-wi.. PI-NI-BON!
Has anyone else noticed that this is really just your basic modem signing on noise?
Go figure that "Modem" would be the language of a bunch of machines. Probably the reason why Jazz said his actual name was unpronounceable, too.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:09 pmby Wheeljack35
I have only have known it as Bah Weep Grannah Weep Ninni Bong
I have NEVER heard the Japanese version
Posted:
Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:41 pmby VecPrime
Yeah, but if you say it the right way no matter what the version... it sounds like a modem dialing.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:01 pmby LicoriceSnoCone
Either way it's pronounced, I demand an energon goodie.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:03 pmby Autovolt127
Reversed like a reverse Convoy.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:25 pmby Creature SH
That actually makes sense.
This scares me.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:34 pmby Night Striker
Whoa this is scary. Makes you wonder whatelse they got right in that show back then. Or did the people that invented the modem actually do that to mimic the universal greeting?
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:32 pmby craggy
Wheeljack35 wrote:I have only have known it as Bah Weep Grannah Weep Ninni Bong
I have NEVER heard the Japanese version
hahaha Bong
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:45 pmby i_amtrunks
Night Striker wrote:Whoa this is scary. Makes you wonder whatelse they got right in that show back then. Or did the people that invented the modem actually do that to mimic the universal greeting?
Would be cool if it were true.
Would also be incredibly lame too.
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:23 pmby Night Striker
*laughs* I know, the TF writers were way ahead of their time. XDDDD
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:18 amby i_amtrunks
Night Striker wrote:*laughs* I know, the TF writers were way ahead of their time. XDDDD
But they were writing the movie set in our time...
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:16 amby Susinko
LicoriceSnoCone wrote:Either way it's pronounced, I demand an energon goodie.
Heeeeyyy! I want an energon goodie too!
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:22 amby Auto Bot
Susinko wrote:LicoriceSnoCone wrote:Either way it's pronounced, I demand an energon goodie.
Heeeeyyy! I want an energon goodie too!
I thought they were supposed to reciprocate!
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:58 amby Wheeljack35
craggy wrote:Wheeljack35 wrote:I have only have known it as Bah Weep Grannah Weep Ninni Bong
I have NEVER heard the Japanese version
hahaha Bong
Get over it
Posted:
Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:00 amby VecPrime
Erm, they did have phone modems back in 1986, made that noise.....
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:02 amby VecPrime
p.s. Vec isnt giving out energon goodies. He knows where that leads, because he of course has seen it before.
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:06 amby Auto Bot
Only Kupp can conjure up such neat "universal greetings" trick to try to befriend the sharkticons.
He must have heard it somewhere in Spike's computer room.
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:55 amby ThunderThruster
Auto Bot wrote:Only Kupp can conjure up such neat "universal greetings" trick to try to befriend the sharkticons.
He must have heard it somewhere in Spike's computer room.
and yet hot rod can use it perfectly with the junkions!
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:27 amby Auto Bot
ThunderThruster wrote:Auto Bot wrote:Only Kupp can conjure up such neat "universal greetings" trick to try to befriend the sharkticons.
He must have heard it somewhere in Spike's computer room.
and yet hot rod can use it perfectly with the junkions!
Junkions have modems too.
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:52 pmby VecPrime
lol, you think they dont throw out old modems?
Maybe they speak using old radio and TV equipment, would explain everything about Junkions.
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:10 amby Auto Bot
Well, Junkions get their stuffs from junk. Old things thrown away by everybody else.
A modem will be some sort of "in" thing for them today.
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:24 pmby Fortress_Maximus
Money makes the world go around....
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:21 pmby VecPrime
Right? If you are a fleshling and dont know (and cant speak) a lick of Modem, you might wanna invest in some cubes. Now there's a truly universal language - Energon.
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:00 pmby Malicron
Alright, if no one else is going to ask this I will;
If the universal greeting is the modem dial-up sound, what have our computers been trying to say to us?
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:06 pmby Tangent
Whiner-tron wrote:Alright, if no one else is going to ask this I will;
If the universal greeting is the modem dial-up sound, what have our computers been trying to say to us?
Please stop kicking me when I freeze?
Stop spilling coffee on me?