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Posted: May 23 2009 08:19 am

I was thinking about having a spoken word mp3 by yours truly of Syd's articles.

I think sometimes we all get too lazy and miss comedic gold that sometimes gets overlooked in the articles when we are speed reading. When I read them outloud I actually laugh much harder.

Epic Win or Epic Fail?

Posted: May 23 2009 08:33 am

If you got someone with a good voice it'd be neat.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Potential for both good and bad here. If the reader is good at their job, it would make for some very funny podcasts. If they suck though, it would be a lot of work for nothing.

Posted: May 23 2009 11:07 am

Yeah like Uncyclopedia's UN News MP3s, they have multiple people doing them and maybe 1 out 20 are funny and have decent voices. The rest are either bland or indecipherable, plus there's no sense of audio quality control going on for the project, the volumes for each recording vary wildly so constantly adjusting your volume gets tedious really fast.

Posted: May 23 2009 12:08 pm

Comedic audiobooks are best read by the author, so unless Syd wants to do it I'm against it.

Posted: May 23 2009 01:08 pm

You know the guy, does he have a good speaking voice? Confused

Posted: May 23 2009 02:27 pm

My speaking/reading voice, and I am not even kidding, has been known to turn women on like mad. Just sayin'.

Posted: May 23 2009 03:51 pm

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Comedic audiobooks are best read by the author, so unless Syd wants to do it I'm against it.

I completely agree with this, but love the idea Ermac presented.

Only the author knows where to properly emphasize, and how to present the text.

Posted: May 23 2009 03:58 pm

Ross Rifle wrote:

My speaking/reading voice, and I am not even kidding, has been known to turn women on like mad. Just sayin'.

I've been told I have a sexy voice...more so over the phone so I could work at a phone sex place for the ladies to call in...that's the extent of my sexyness. Lame.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

Honestly, part of the fun of reading Syd's articles is your own imagination of how you think he sounds. Having someone reading it to you ruins the fun (including him)

***awaits permaban***

Posted: May 23 2009 08:35 pm

I've been told I sound like a space gnome when I get excited.

So thumbs up?

Posted: May 23 2009 08:46 pm

I have a British accent when speaking English.
I also can change my voice to almost whatever I want.
Jus' sayin'.

Posted: May 23 2009 09:39 pm

I apparently sound like Christian Slater to my friends. I guess that means I sound like a guy that, in turn, is trying to sound like Jack Nicholson. You could probably get the real Christian Slater to do it for the same price as me though, so I guess that wouldn't make a difference.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

I prefer reading myself, it could be really cool for other people, though. Only if Syd did it.

Also, whenever I read his articles, I picture him sounding kind of like Orson Welles.... when I read aloud, I naturally go into this amazing droning voice, not interesting to listen to, unfortunately, but amazing all the same.

Posted: May 29 2009 06:35 pm

I think Plethora should read them out loud.

Posted: May 29 2009 07:14 pm

I'd hire Steven Wright to do them. Or maybe Ben Stein.

Posted: May 29 2009 08:39 pm

Ive been told I have a deep, Canadian , stoner voice..