People who whistle: Cocky/bossy type?

[Iamme]

I heard a hunter-type guy whistling at his hound dog this morning. Repeatedly. Loud. Could have woke the neighborhood. He had his camoflouge vest on. And I sat in my van watching him..the way he rounded up the dog. This got me thinking:

This goes way back with me, when I was in school. There were these guys that could whitle. I don't mean people who whistle tunes through their rounded protruding lips. I mean, the people who whistle through their teeth and curved tongue. These guys that learned to whistle were always flaunting it. They would love to 'call over' their friends, by whistling. To me, this appears to be like a male dominance thing. But I have known girls/women to whistle like this also. One I knew was a tomboy type. She almost beat me in arm wrestling once. Another lady who could whistle was a trailer type/stripper type backround person.

I never learned how to whistle like that. I tried at various times, but gave up. I blew it off to another case where I'd say, "These people are natural at it". It made me mad that I couldn't whistle. I figured that if I could whistle like that, that this could help shape my personality and give ME that feeling of boldness, that these whistlers seemed to possess.

I was on a construction site once where the job superintendant used to whistle for the subordinates to come over to him..or to signal to them in some regard. He would also whistle to the crane operator as to when to stop moving the crane. One day, one of the workers confronted him and said that he does not wish to be whistled to like this, because he is not a dog. And if you can recall, in the movie, the Sound of Music, Julie Andrews did not appreciate being whistled at like this by Christopher Plummer.

Now that I've gotten this off my chest...I am going out to try to practice whistling some more.:D

[wayrad]

Those whistlers are evil, I tell you, evil!

I can't do it either. Or snap my fingers. :(

[hgc]

On the finger-snapping corollary, funny story...

I was in a customer's office once, and the boss had a glassed-in office by the door. One of the salesmen came off the elevator and walked by, and the boss snapped his fingers a few times to get his attention. The salesman says, "I changed my name. I answer to two snaps now."

:D

[scribble]

I'm a whistler. A very good one. Both of the variety where you stick your fingers in your mouth, and the puckered-lips melodies.

You'd be very, very impressed. I often impress myself.

As for whether the fingers-in-the-mouth whistle is a male dominance thing, I doubt it. It's more likely a regional thing. It's how my own dad called me and my brother (and the dog) when he needed anything. In 30 years, it's never occured to me that it's anything other than a handy way to communicate without shouting yourself hoarse.

[scribble]

Oh, and if it helps any - my dad's a pushover and so am I. No bossiness here.