I'm resuscitating this thread because it looks like a reasonable place to describe an incident that has stayed in my memory for over 30 years. It is a case of tickling heard ON THE RADIO.
It was some time in the 1980s. I was in my room working on a bit of reading and writing and only half-listening to the radio. It was a pop music station which I very occasionally listened to, here in the UK - it must either have been BBC Radio 1 or, just possibly, Capital Radio. Maybe there's an outside chance that other UK TMF members of a certain age who listened to those stations more often than me will be able to explain what I heard, which was the following:
During a pause between two songs, there was the usual slew of noisy continuity announcements, trails, maybe adverts if it was Capital, and then suddenly, without any warning or explanation, there was the voice of a young woman protesting 'No...No! - No!! Noooo!!! --' in a voice that rapidly escalated into a begging, squealing tone, and then straight into peals of abandoned and despairing laughter. It was, absolutely unmistakably, the sound of a very ticklish girl being overpowered by an attacker (or probably more than one attacker) and subjected to purposeful tickling that immediately sent her crazy.
This all lasted perhaps 8 seconds, 10 at most, before fading out and giving way to the next song. No explanation came then or at any point afterwards.
It sounded for all the world like a clip that someone had mischievously recorded and then broadcast, maybe from a staff party at the radio station, maybe something someone had sent in for a joke - I can only guess.
All I know is that it made me drop what I had been doing and listen, electrified by the sound of the most gorgeous and arousing female tickle-laughter I had ever heard. (Nothing since then has beaten it.) And I was left thinking 'I know what I just heard - and yet - what just happened?'
It was some time in the 1980s. I was in my room working on a bit of reading and writing and only half-listening to the radio. It was a pop music station which I very occasionally listened to, here in the UK - it must either have been BBC Radio 1 or, just possibly, Capital Radio. Maybe there's an outside chance that other UK TMF members of a certain age who listened to those stations more often than me will be able to explain what I heard, which was the following:
During a pause between two songs, there was the usual slew of noisy continuity announcements, trails, maybe adverts if it was Capital, and then suddenly, without any warning or explanation, there was the voice of a young woman protesting 'No...No! - No!! Noooo!!! --' in a voice that rapidly escalated into a begging, squealing tone, and then straight into peals of abandoned and despairing laughter. It was, absolutely unmistakably, the sound of a very ticklish girl being overpowered by an attacker (or probably more than one attacker) and subjected to purposeful tickling that immediately sent her crazy.
This all lasted perhaps 8 seconds, 10 at most, before fading out and giving way to the next song. No explanation came then or at any point afterwards.
It sounded for all the world like a clip that someone had mischievously recorded and then broadcast, maybe from a staff party at the radio station, maybe something someone had sent in for a joke - I can only guess.
All I know is that it made me drop what I had been doing and listen, electrified by the sound of the most gorgeous and arousing female tickle-laughter I had ever heard. (Nothing since then has beaten it.) And I was left thinking 'I know what I just heard - and yet - what just happened?'
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