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As a boy growing up in Texas,

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I found that whistling

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played an important role

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in my life.

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My father would whistle for us to

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come in at night.

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This could be with thumb and

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forefinger against the tongue or

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forefingers if he needed serious

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amplification.

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All of us whistled for the

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dogs to come in, still do,

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something like this.

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I love the movie, The Good, The Bad,

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and The Ugly, for the whistling,

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so hauntingly included by

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Ennio Morricone.

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Mm-hmm.

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The Andy Griffith Show also inspired

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me with its whistling theme song.

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Even now, I want to join in,

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and I'm sure some of

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you did.

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My neighbor, when I was a kid, used

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to whistle Christmas tunes as

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he put up Christmas decorations

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outside.

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Jingle Bells was one of his

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favorites.

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Seems strange to me, given that

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we only got snow about once every 30

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years in South Texas,

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but he was a good whistler.

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Cowboys whistled herd cattle and

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communicate with each other.

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Whistles can be heard at a

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far greater distance than speech.

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It's efficient, and your whistle

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is always with you.

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Whistling has vocabulary.

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This whistle is

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universally known.

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It's now called a woof whistle,

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and in France you can be fined

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700 euros for

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woof whistling in public.

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Here's a whistle that can be used

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for being shocked at a high price,

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or even as a compliment for a

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brilliant idea.

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There are many interesting

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expressions about whistling.

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Ever heard of whistling past the

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graveyard?

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When you do that, you're showing

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that you don't have a care in the

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world about the dangers you're

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ignoring.

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I like popular songs with whistling,

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like Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.

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How about patients?

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Guns and roses?

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or even this one featured in Kill

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Bill, but from the film Twisted

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Nerve.

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There are many great ones, but the

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whistling that seems always to

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be on a ready loop in the

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back of my mind comes from

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the spaghetti westerns, like

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this one from A Fistful of

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Dollars.

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I'm W.F. Strong, these are stories

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from Texas, some

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of them are true.