Oh, cheer up! Just push the red button ...

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Oh, cheer up! Just push the red button ...

by Jay Hathaway May 16th 2008

We've noticed a meme traveling around Twitter lately that seems to be making people's days at the office a little more fun. Or, depending on how you look at it, making their coworkers' days just a little more annoying. What is this life-changing trend? Old-school sound effects buttons.

If you need a drummer to punctuate all your snappy remarks, like some kind of quirky late-night talk show host, visit Instant Rim Shot. If something doesn't quite go as planned for you or someone in the room with you, go to Sad Trombone. These are perhaps the two most indispensable sound effects in any jokester's repertoire.

Safari users, take note: this is where you finally get some use out of that Web Clip feature, so you can keep these in your Dashboard for the appropriate occasion. We hope you enjoy them -- or loathe them -- as much as we do.

Thanks to Jim Ray for the Web Clip idea!

Tags: audio, meme, rimshot, sound, sound effects, SoundEffects, trombone

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Lucien said 11:13AM on 5-16-2008

thanks this really made my day a little better. Im gonna go show my co-workers this.

Firtch said 6:18PM on 5-16-2008

Oh man! I gotta think of a way to make a quick shortcut on my WinMob phone to play these in meetings and social gatherings!!

hazard said 12:02AM on 5-17-2008

this really needs to be a desktop app that can be triggered by shortcut keys .. otherwise .. "hang on a moment guys" .. opens browser, navigates to page .. moment is lost ..

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