Can we list 1000 modes of communication?
I will start.
1. face to face.
2. telegram.
3. email.
4. twitter.
5. smoke signals.
6. honking your horn.
7. gestures.
8. hand written letter.
9. postcards.
Observing members:
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Composing members:
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100 Answers
Will you do 1000 modes of everything these days?
Texting, Sex.
12. Pheromones
13. Food
14. Money
16. Microwave
17. VHF
18. UHF
19. short wave
20. facebook
21. smiling
22. fluther
23. shouting
24. Sign language
25. Semaphone flags (Navy)
26. Morse Code
27. Two way radio
28. HAM radio
29. Two cans on a string
30. Cellular phones
31. Teletype machines
32. Switchboards
33. Morse Code
34. Playing Footsie Under the Table
35. ½: Morse Code while Playing Footsie Under the Table
36. Pumping your shotgun.
37. Pinching her ass.
@Cruiser: Is “Pumping your shotgun” a euphemism?
40.The secret languange of twins
41. Drums
42. Warning Shot
@cprevite The sound of a round being chambered in a pump shotgun lets you know a world of hurt is about to be unloaded your way.
44. Being silent.
72. Telepathy
91. Crying.
@Cruiser: Shame. I was hoping for double entendre (to go with “Pinching her ass”).
47. Biting down when you put your hand on the back of her head.
48. Glaring
49. Yelling
50. Light signals
“37. Pinching her ass.”
Would that be a donkey pinch?
51. The come hither finger beckon.If done provocatively can work wonders.
53. Raising a(n) eyebrow (s)
54. Body Language
55. Message in a bottle
56. Tattoos
57. Note wrapped around brick if the authorities ask me about this one, I will deny it!
58. Leaving little love notes around the house xxx
Television
Radio
Gossip
T-Shirts
MySpace
59. Shorthand – Stenography
60. Court Reporting
61. IP Relay (telephone communication for the deaf)
62. Singing
63. Whistling
64. Playing an instrument
65. Music
66. Newspaper
67. Books
68. Magazines
69. Blogging
70. Visual diagrams
71. Presentations or speeches
72. Style of Dress and Clothing
73. Memos
74. Bow or Curtsy (Salutation)
75. Handshake
76. Winking
77. Hand waving
78. Head shake (yes or no)
79. Hair style
80. Brochures
82. Contracts
83. Listening
84. Posture
85. V.O.I.P. (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
86. Clocks and watches (sometimes talking)
87. Whistles
88. Sirens
89. Computer speech-to-text (speech recognition software)
90. Computer text-to-speech (TTS Software)
91. Braille
92. Finger spelling (for deaf-blind individuals)
93. Finger Braille
94. Arthrological alphabet (pointing to joints and palm of left hand)
95. Road signs
96. Stop lights
97. Smell
@eden2eve WOW!! Three more and you would have reached the 100 mark. Leaving only 900 more to go. As you can see I forgot to number mine;-)
@AmWiser some are duplicates
aroma
flower color
gemstones
knotted rope
stacking rocks
sculptures
graffiti
arranging sticks
sewing quilts
weaving rugs
needlepoint
embroidery
nosey/nosey
101. Blowing kisses
102 mooning (hows that from one end to the other)
Relay runners
Shadow pictures
Cave paintings
120. aggression
121 avoidance
126 Licking/sucking on fingers. (Like this)
Are we really trying for 1000?
128. Knowingly raise one eyebrow
131. Hormones
for intrabody communication.
132 Signal Fires
133 mirrors
134 Semaphore flags
135 The flashing light thing on ships.
137 electronic scrolling LED signs.
139. Telephone ring
140. Fire and smoke alarms
141. Baby monitor
142. Bus light and signal
143. Duck call and moose call (hunting)
144. Tattoos
145. Hula dancing
146. Waving your hands in the air like you just don’t care!
147. Flatus
148. Belching
149. Monastic Chants
150. Color Codes on Resistors
we have a couple of repeats.. who’s moitoring the figures here?
number ? If we go with nature the seasons?
I’ve been reading through and there really aren’t too many duplicates. Perhaps pheremones and various hand signals. We’re doing pretty good. Somehow we missed
153. Kissing
154. smoke signals
155. indifference
156. Haptic communication using full-body sensor suits.
160. Trail Markers
161. Log Entries
162. Work Orders
163. Random acts of violence
165. Psychoactive medication
166. Cannabis
167. LSD
for intraneuronal communication.
169. Blimps
170. Skywriting
171. Tartans
172. War paint
173. Phonograph records
174. Faxes
175. Movie subtitles
176. Subliminal messages
177. Signal lamps
@YARNLADY I like that answer.
178. discrimination
179. Advertise
180. Refuse to confirm or deny
181. React to (or as a part of) a news story
182. Leaks to the press
183. Horsehead in the bed
184. Fish delivered wrapped in newspaper
187. Fish heads in the bed
188. Horse delivered wrapped in newspaper.
189. Singing telegram! friends – You really are a buttmunch!
190. Payroll timeclock
191. Day Planner
192. Computer modems
193. Protest marches
194. Spanking or punishing
195. Arguing
196. Hollerin’
197. Rattlesnake rattle
198. Animal growl
199. Dance
200. Drama
201. Hissing
202. Throwing fruit
203. Booing
204. Lexigrams
205. Bugle calls
206. Signal Mirror,
207. Flares
208 Spit Wads
209. “Kick Me” signs
210. pictograms
212. fortissimo
213. forte
214. pianissimo
215. piano
216. accordon
217. inuendo
218. bandoneon
219. yodel
220. sheet music
221. blueprints
223. diagrams
224. drum major’s whistle
225. bo’s’n’s whistle (pipe)
226. ship’s bell
227. Radioteletype
228. drama
229. comedy
230. make up
231. Food presentation
232. Oleoresin Capsacin Spray
233. posturing
234. Expletives
235. Smiting
236. Poison
237. “the 1000 yard stare”
238. Few to Few
239. Many to Many
240. One to Few
241. Many to Few
242. One to Many
243. Trying to get the list done.
244. Pantomime
245. Mime
246. Honey bee dances
247. Prayers
248. Ballet
249. 21 Gun salute
250. Flags
251. Town criers
252. Papyrus
253. Whistle language in the Canary Islands
254. Couriers
255. Signaling towers
256. Photography
257. Tombstones
258. Statues
259. Jewelry
260. Bone carving
261. Arrowheads
262. Scrimshaw
263. Military uniforms and medals
264. Hand shakes
265. Incense
266. Scent
267. African praise singer – griot
268. Currency – coins
269. Architecture
270. Steles
271. Totems
272. Totem poles
273. Masks
274. Heraldry (Coat of arms)
275. Tamga (Seals)
276. Branding of animals
277. Sacrifices
278. Mythology
279. Body painting
280. Human branding
281. Body mutilation (foot binding, neck rings, ivory pegs in ears)
282. Sackcloth and ashes
283. Blood stained sheet (proof of bride’s virginity)
284. Veiling
285. Cantoring
286. The dreaded ‘wife look’
287. Fireworks
288. Rap music
289. Serenading
290. Wedding vows
291. Fan dancing
292. Duels
293. Arm bands
294. Toasts
295. Hummingbirds chirp with their tails
296. Duck and geese quack
297. Bird flight formation
298. Bird courtship dances
299. Skunk spraying
300. Jousting
301. Animal horn fighting – mating rituals
302. Kangaroo boxing mating ritual
303. Chameleon color changing
Man! 1000 is a long ways away!!
305 Repair diagram
Strike 304 – repeat replace with…
304 baby monitors
computers
The count is way off because of duplicates.
307. indicator lamp
308. storm claxxon
309. scrolling text at the bottom of the screen.
310. tatoos
Using burps to indicate mood.
You can have happy burps, downtrodden burps and you can even try to communicate using burpguage – the art of trying to talk just using your burps to make the words.
@YARNLADY if only people would use the ‘Find’ feature on their choice of internet browser tut tut lol x
I think we’re at about 315:
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Scraping on the other side of the wall.
perfumes
cricket chirp
baby cry
children misbehaving
laughing
seances
Im Thinking about 316 +- 8 for duplication We’ve been a little lax on numbering lately (self included)
Caldulation
So we’re more or less approximately a third of the way there or so
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