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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought they meant the other kind of "sound" and I am like, that's a lot of mass to send interstellar for a joke.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A medical sound is a surgical steel rod used for "sounding" (ie, probing) parts of the human anatomy. More generally, a sound is any probe or pole used to test depth or similar properties; mapping the depth of a pond with a graduated pole is "sounding the pond".

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ohhh, I thought you meant queefs by 'the other sound'

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I know a mother who can play a harmonica.